Retired Emory Law School Professor Donates $1 Million to School | By Jim Vassallo |
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William J. Carney and his wife, Jane, have created a challenge grant worth $1 million that benefits the Emory Law School’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice, according to a release from the school.Carney is a retired law professor from the school.The donation will let the center hire a... |
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Philadelphia Region One of Cheapest to Attend Law School | By Jim Vassallo |
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Philadelphia is not really known as the place to go to attend law school, but the Philadelphia area is one of the best for cost in the country, according to The Street.Even though the school is a little too far from the Main Line to be considered a Philadelphia law school, Penn State said it would o... |
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Prospective Lawyers Should Mind Their Online Reputation | By Daniel June |
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The internet has an allure of giving you the freedom to say whatever you want without too much accountability. Facebook, tweeting, blogs, etc. let us voice all those repressed aggressions and idiosyncrasies we have to withhold while in school or on the job. But don’t be deceived. As many as 37... |
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Priming the Mind for Legal Success | By Daniel June |
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Books like Frasier’s The Golden Bowl seem to both realize the high power of fetishism and magic while maligning mankind’s superstitions for relying on them. Sympathetic magic? Who needs it? But as sports athletes and successful people everywhere have noted, having some “magic&rdquo... |
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Railing Against Law Schools - How much bashing is justified? | By A.S. Pradhan |
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The continuing downturn in the economy has affected even recent law graduates. This has increased the web traffic of anti-law school blogs as they have increased their campaign against law schools. Most of them are written by individuals who went to law schools and then got jobs in good law firms bu... |
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Passing the Bar Exam...Will I or Won't I? | By Brendon Buthello |
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Bar exams are forever in the news! Take for instance, the California bar exam candidates who have individual bar review needs. Those who have come from other states and sitting for the California bar exam face a greater challenge than their peers who are from California themselves. Prepar... |
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Preparing for Bar Exams | By Brendon Buthello |
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The bar exams will be underway in a few months. Here are some dos that will be helpful for preparation.1. Be aware of rules and get your application form from your state's board of bar examiners before you plan to give the exam. The exam is mostly for two days in most of the states: the 1-day mu... |
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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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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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Real Men of Law School |By Stony Olsen |
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There's a hysterical series of videos put out by the George Washington School of Law. These parody the "Real Men of Genius" series of ads that Anheuser-Busch corporation has done for their "Bud Light" brand of beer. George Washington's video's are pretty funny, with ... |
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