| Maurer School of Law Forms Partnership with Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund | By Jim Vassallo |
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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF), according to a release from the school.The partnership will provide a mentorship and scholarship program to help the to... |
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| New Mentor Program at UNT Dallas College of Law Gets Creative with No Alumni | By Jim Vassallo |
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The first public law school in North Texas has a new mentoring program named after Louis A. Bedford Jr., the first black judge in Dallas County, according to The Dallas Morning News.The founding dean of the University of North Texas Dallas College of Law, Royal Ferguson, said, “We’re bas... |
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| New Medical-Legal Program at University of Virginia | By Jim Vassallo |
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The University of Virginia is now offering a joint degree program for law and medicine, according to The Daily Progress.Despite the growing popularity of such programs across the country there is just one student who is enrolled in the program at UVa for the fall semester; Austin Sim.Sim wants to pr... |
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| Managing Student Loans | By Daniel June |
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Getting established in law is such a plight of personal perseverance that beginning the ascent saddled with over $100K in debt seems a bit unfair. What should law students do to manage their debts? How should they pay them off?It is best, to begin with, to keep the debt as small as possible. Sure, i... |
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| Networking Versus the Spore Method | By Daniel June |
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Getting your resume in the right hands of the right person with the right job for you is unlikely if you imitate the common fungus and just send out spores until the air is saturated. Such a strategy indeed works for simplistic animals; spiders lay eggs by the thousands. But as the fable of the fox ... |
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| Meet Your Professor | Daniel June |
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Networking is vital in the legal profession. Not only is the career socially focused, based mostly on the use of language, but pragmatically there are fewer jobs than seekers, so networking is especially relevant. You should not wait until you are out of law school to begin. In fact, you should begi... |
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| Online Law Degree: Viable Option or Utopian Dream? | By Daniel June |
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The prospect of an online law school seems charming: you wouldn't have to relocate to a law school, you'd save heaps over the more than $100,000 typical law schools tuition, and you could come to "class" in your pajamas. Nevertheless, though this industry is booming in other fields... |
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| Outlines: Fruit from the Poisonous Tree or Necessary to Success? | By Vanessa Brewer |
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One of the greatest law school debates is whether to use pre-canned outlines or create your own. Almost every law school professor will tell you to make your own outlines. On the other hand, almost every 2L and 3L will tell you to grab outlines from 2Ls and 3Ls that took the same class with the same... |
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| Major Practice Areas Analyzed | By A. Harrison Barnes |
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Litigation is as American as apple pie. In our litigious society, it is never likely to fall out of fashion.
Many attorneys decided to enter the law as young people because they
were entranced by the glamorous trial lawyers they saw on film and
television. While the real world is of course very... |
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| Myth Versus Reality for Law Firm Jobs | By A. Harrison Barnes |
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Looking for the perfect law firm position? Our database contains virtually every law firm in the United States, Europe and Asia. Simply pick the city you are interested in, your practice group and allow our research team to do the work of preparing your letters and helping you apply to firms. Modifi... |
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