| When Should One Look For a Job? | By Brendon Buthello |
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In case you are about to graduate in May, then it is best if you start looking for a job right now! Waiting for your graduation to get completed might only spoil your chances of getting a suitable job.Sara Crow, assistant director of communications, Career Services, says that most of the students do... |
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| Summers Keep their Nose Clean | By Stony Olsen |
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Every year, there are plenty of summer associates who get their promising career at a nice law firm put in the trash because of stupid antics. But this year, summers seem to be keeping their noses pretty much clean. Unlike in years past, there does not seem to be many incidents that make career se... |
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| Dreier's in Quite the Pickle | By Liz Jernigan |
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Marc Dreier, sole equity partner of New York firm Dreier LLP, has gotten himself into quite a predicament.The charges seem to mount against him daily, with the latest being SEC filings that allege funds are missing from clients' escrow accounts.Just last week Dreier was charged with impersonatio... |
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| Racial Discrimination at The University of Chicago Law School | By Liz Jernigan |
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Earlier today it was reported that The University of Chicago's Law School had engaged in racial discrimination. The law school's Black Law School Association, or BLSA, had limited a public forum to only black students under the guidance of the BLSA's president. Other students were upset ... |
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| Congrats! Here's Your...Pat on the Back? | By Liz Jernigan |
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So you spent hours, upon hours, upon MORE hours studying your brains out to pass the bar exam. You get your results back and your firm is so happy for you that they send out a company wide email asking for co-workers to "reach out and congratulate" those who passed. Um, excuse me? That's accordi... |
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| Party Time! Bonus Time! Or Not. | By Liz Jernigan |
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I can't believe it's already December. It's amazing how fast time flies by, especially during the holiday season. I mean, seems like yesterday I was busy preparing a turkey, that I would inevitably screw up. Ugh.Just like you and me, law firms are busy around this time of year, too.Typic... |
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| Bankruptcy Work, Anyone?? | By Liz Jernigan |
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We've all been hearing about the big three automakers and their current financial woes. It's dominated much of the news coverage as of late. The automakers are grappling with Washington trying to convince them of their bailout worthiness.Regardless of what Washington eventually chooses to do... |
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| Stanford to Switch to Pass/Fail Grades | By Stony Olsen |
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Ah, a pass fail grading system. In law school, it's seldom used, since you can't have a "top of the class>" honor. But Yale Law School has used it for many years; primarily because they can: every student at Yale will get a job. Now, Stanford Law School is set to join Yale in offering onl... |
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| Law Professor Sues His Students | By Stony Olsen |
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You can have bad days at law school. But the worst has got to be when you show up for class and the prof starts handing out subpoenas. That's exactly what happened at The William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Arkansas. Professor Richard Peltz teaches tor... |
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| Yale Law School to forgive some student loans | By Stony Olsen |
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Yale Law School has announced that it will forgive student loans for it's graduates earning less than $60,000 a year. This is an attempt on the part of Yale to encourage more public interest lawyers, since one reason there are fewer of them is the sheer crushing weight of student loans many stu... |
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