Putting the cool back into law school
From the monthly archives:
This year, the new law school at UC-Irvine became the most selective school in the country by admitting only 4% of their students. The big reason? Free tuition to those trailblazers, not to mention a class size in the 60s.
UC-Irvine made a big splash with their opening. While law schools are popping up all over [...]
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It’s a offer that if you gave it to the majority of working Americans, they would take it in a heartbeat. What if your employer told you not to come to work for a year? No, you’re not being laid off. Just take a year’s vacation. And in exchange, your employer will pay you $80,000.
That [...]
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I could never write as eloquently or passionately against the proliferation of law schools as Above the Law can. And yes, UMass is going to merge with Southern New England School of Law, so there will still be the same number of law schools in the country as before. But there won’t be the same [...]
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Once you get near final exams, most students stop going out, stop drinking, and generally stop having fun. There’s a switch that flips in most law students without them even knowing it. And it’s a switch they should resist.
If you need to work 16 hours a day in order to sleep during the other eight [...]
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If some legal education is good, more is better right? Most law students and commentators on law schools would disagree with that on two fronts: that some legal education is not, at the moment, good at all, and that the last thing we need is more of it.
But what if more legal education came without [...]
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The work/life balance movement is under attack on two fronts. The first is cold economic reality. The second is an attitude that work/life balance is simply the entitled winning of millenials.
When work/life balance is translated by either its supporters or its opponents to “working less,” then it is rightly vulnerable to these attacks. When the [...]
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Most law students have never heard of Favrd, the Twitter star-aggregating system which launched in early-to-mid 2008. Favrd rose above similar services by offering a “no-webcock algorithm,” which started with only accepted the favorites of registered users for ranking tweets.
The result is that Favrd built a rich community of Twitter users who were trying (and [...]
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