Walking Alternate Paths

January 18, 2010

The Whipping Boy of every law school is career services. There aren’t many law students who were thrilled or completely satisfied by their career services office. That’s because career services tends to do a very odd job: to ensure that the best qualified applicants at a law school are employed.
Point/CounterpointAaron Street points this out at [...]

Tough Love Exam Tips

January 18, 2010

JD-Maybe has some exam tips. No punches pulled:
“Ok, you got a bad grade because you dumped everything you know on the exam and that pisses the professors off in a big way, I know this because they say it over and over and over again. You continue to throw in irrelevant shit just to prove [...]

Bait and Switch Laptop Bans

January 12, 2010

For some reason, laptops in law school are still red-headed stepchildren. There are still professors who won’t let students take exams on laptops. Some state bar exams do not allow the use of a computer. And then there is the firestorm that is banning laptops from the classroom.
Be More InterestingI am completely sympathetic to Elie’s [...]

Getting Back Into the Swing of Things

January 11, 2010

One of the hardest tricks for law students is to get back into a rhythm of working after a long layoff. That’s one reason students tend to take on a lot of extra activities. If you have a cite checking assignment or job search to work on over a break, you’re less likely to fall [...]

African- and Mexican-Americans Shut Out of Law School

January 6, 2010

The Columbia Law School Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic released a startling study, surprising for two reasons. First was the point of the study. Despite higher test scores and undergraduate GPAs, there has been a 7.5% drop in the number of blacks admitted compared to 1993, along with an 11.7 percent decline for Mexican-Americans.
In [...]

Law School Resolutions

January 3, 2010

You’ve probably made your New Year’s Resolution already. But it can be tricky for law students who are already trying to maintain a tricky balancing act. If you’re still thinking of a new habit or change, here’s a couple of tips.
Keep It Very ReasonableThere’s plenty of advice about not biting off more than you can [...]

Irvine Staying on the Discount Train

December 22, 2009

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 [...]

Stop On a Dime and Turn Off a Cliff

December 21, 2009

Josh Auriemma of Legal Geekery did an excellent follow-up post about a post he did almost a year ago on 9 reasons to not go to law school. The follow-up post revolves around two comments to that post from a Jane Doe.
The first comment is longer than the original post (which wasn’t a slouch to [...]

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