Putting the cool back into law school
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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 [...]
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I don’t care for the language, which strikes an odd balance between “ivory tower academician” and “internet entrepreneur”, but the message from Max Miller is still good: Students need to take a macro look at what’s happening in the legal services marketplace as well as a look at what is driving demand for legal services [...]
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Finally someone came out and said it. Randall Ryder, writing for the Lawyerist, points out the biggest issue law students are facing in a tougher legal market: The sky is not falling. OCIs have always been viewed as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In actuality the vast majority of any [...]
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For a while, it seemed that nothing was sacred any more in Biglaw. Lawyers and staff were laid off. Partners were asked to contribute more capital. Salaries were frozen. Lockstep compensation was challenged. And the billable hour itself came under attack. But one piece of Biglaw seems more resilient to change than any other: junior [...]
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In a recent interview with CSPAN, Justice Scalia noted that perhaps too many good minds were being devoted to lawyering rather than something more productive: “I mean there’d be a, you know, a defense or public defender from Podunk, you know, and this woman is really brilliant, you know. Why isn’t she out inventing the [...]
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If you’re not familiar with it, the National Association of Legal Placement (NALP) is the organization which oversees and governs legal recruiting. Governs might be something of a stretch, but NALP publishes guidelines designed to make the hiring process more efficient and civil. One of the key rules intended to protect law students is a [...]
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There is no shortage of discussion on how the legal industry and law schools are changing. There is a shortage of good advice on what law students need to do in order to be successful in a changing profession. Most of the current guidance is to reconsider whether you should go to law school at [...]
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