Why have law schools fallen out of favor to the extent that they have in the US? And elsewhere, too, many would argue. What is it about the surge of law school graduates that leads to this feeling of hatred towards the schools – even the litigation that has pursued several of them? More importantly, […]
Oops . . giving the finger to your law professor is not exactly the best way to improve your grades. RonNell Anderson Jones teaches at BYU Law School and happened to encounter an angry motorist on the way to class, tweeting . . I wonder if the driver who honked and made the rude gesture
Scoring a law job in a down market is a challenge. However there ARE ways. For instance, by picking a major early in the process. But there are others. Adam Gropper, the author of “Making Partner: The Essential Guide to Negotiating the Law School Path and Beyond”, a book that the ABA has used to
Enrollments at US law schools are waaay down, reports show. An article in the WSJ and other media indicate that the law has become less attractive with an 11 per cent drop in enrollments according to the American Bar Association with students cocnerned about job prospects and debt levels. One upside for those who do
Patrick Ellis writes a blog at http://patellis.wordpress.com and commented on a recent blog item on lawyers and social media posted by Kevin O’Keefe with an interesting take on why law students don’t put themselves ‘out there’. He asks the question: Why won’t they Twitter or Blog? Because they are afraid of the risks involved with
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ABA President Jmes Silkenat questions whether President Obama really meant to say that law degrees should be for two years, rather than three. What he meant, according to the lawyer’s president rather than the country’s, was that J.D. degrees should be less expensive. [wp_ad_camp_3] The comments were made during a tour when the president was
Parody has often been the strong point for law student reviews and so when a group of Auckland law students took on Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” it was parody on their minds. But not for YouTube, who banned their steamy take on the Thicke video, which features topless models and is designed to blur the
Steven J. Harper is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and author of The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (Basic Books, April 2013), and other books. He retired as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in 2008, after 30 years in private practice. This article appeared in The American Lawyer. In June the legal
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AbovetheLaw is not used to towing the line when it comes to conventional law reportage, which is not a bad thing. Nor are the blog’s law school rankings, which looks at prioritizing outcomes in terms of the prestige (and pay packet) of any law job before deciding which law school to attend or – indeed
The pass rate requirements for US law schools may become tougher if American Bar Association changes are made. It appears certain that the ABA committee that is responsible for supervising law school accreditation stardards will endorse a rule that requires a minimum 80 per cent of graduates to pass the bar examination within two years
