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The Mental Fortitude Necessary to Practice Law
June 22, 2013
From the moment you start practicing law, people are going to tell you that you aren’t very good at your job. Sometimes they will be right. Sometimes they will be trying to intimidate you. Sometimes they will just be jerks. If you aren’t prepared for this (because your law school artificially boosted your GPA, for example), you won’t be very good at being a lawyer. It is crucial for law students — would-be lawyers, that is — to learn to deal with people telling them they aren’t...
June 22, 2013
From the moment you start practicing law, people are going to tell you that you aren’t very good at your job. Sometimes they will be right. Sometimes they will be trying to intimidate you. Sometimes they will just be jerks. If you aren’t prepared for this (because your law school artificially boosted your GPA, for example), you won’t be very good at being a lawyer. It is crucial for law students — would-be lawyers, that is — to learn to deal with people telling them they aren’t...
Are Law Schools Neglecting Half of the Brain?
June 16, 2013
The notion that law schools should teach more practical skills and hands-on training is in vogue these days. But Paula...
June 16, 2013
The notion that law schools should teach more practical skills and hands-on training is in vogue these days. But Paula...
One in Six California Law Grads Can’t Find Jobs
June 14, 2013
Sacramento Bee: One in Six Recent California Law School Grads Can't Find Jobs: The job market for California law school...
June 14, 2013
Sacramento Bee: One in Six Recent California Law School Grads Can't Find Jobs: The job market for California law school...
Job Market for Would-Be Lawyers is Bleaker Than it Looks
April 7, 2013
The job market for prospective lawyers is even bleaker than the law school employment outcome data released Friday by the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar would appear to suggest, according to one group's analysis of the data. Excluding jobs funded by law schools, only 55.1 percent of all 2012 law school graduates were employed in full-time, long-term lawyer jobs on Feb .15, according to the analysis by the law school reform group Law School Transparency. "Law...
April 7, 2013
The job market for prospective lawyers is even bleaker than the law school employment outcome data released Friday by the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar would appear to suggest, according to one group's analysis of the data. Excluding jobs funded by law schools, only 55.1 percent of all 2012 law school graduates were employed in full-time, long-term lawyer jobs on Feb .15, according to the analysis by the law school reform group Law School Transparency. "Law...
Penn Is Big Law’s Favorite School; Howard Is the Top Underdog
March 18, 2013
Weren't the Oscars just a royal bore? Much more exciting is The National Law Journal'snewly released go-to list—the much anticipated compilation of law schools most favored by the firms of the NLJ 250. First, a quick overview of the market from theNLJ's Karen Sloan: Most law schools sent slightly larger percentages of their 2012 classes into first-year associate jobs at these firms than they did in 2011. Among the 50 schools most popular with hiring firms, 25 percent of graduates landed...
March 18, 2013
Weren't the Oscars just a royal bore? Much more exciting is The National Law Journal'snewly released go-to list—the much anticipated compilation of law schools most favored by the firms of the NLJ 250. First, a quick overview of the market from theNLJ's Karen Sloan: Most law schools sent slightly larger percentages of their 2012 classes into first-year associate jobs at these firms than they did in 2011. Among the 50 schools most popular with hiring firms, 25 percent of graduates landed...
