Dear Potential Future Employer, Today, I would like to express why, good sir (or madam); it would be in your best interests to look beyond the scope of your traditional associate hiring criteria. Law firms often fail to grasp how the personalities and social abilities of their employees deliver real profits or losses to their [...]
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Today I venture to expound upon a dirty little secret that law schools everywhere hope you never uncover. It’s a secret that undercuts one of the hard and fast truths drilled into every law student from the day they begin to even consider attending law school. It’s a secret that belies a premise promulgated further [...]
What We Want: Write a short blurb on your favorite legal topic. Make it original, make it interesting, make us want to pay you $50! We’re looking for the most interesting and relevant legal article you can write. The topics can be anything from law school to life as an attorney or anything else you [...]
Ever since the late nineteenth century when Harvard’s Christopher Columbus Langdell created what we know today as “law school,” future and current students have had to grapple with one of the most difficult questions in our field: to relationship, or not to relationship? The question should not be foreign to any student – even if [...]
At least that’s the route some recent law school grads are taking. Most recently, as reported on Yahoo.com, a lawsuit has been filed against New York Law School by three former graduates in a $200 million class action suit. What could they be suing for? Misleading information regarding career prospects. All, or at least most, law [...]
Being a summer associate comes with a certain amount of prestige and an immense amount of possibilities. Don’t be fooled however, it’s not all rosy pleadings, post-bar offers and weekends in Catalina. Truth is, your friends, your fellow summer associates that are supposedly “barreling through the trenches” with you in pursuit of the coveted post-bar [...]
Facebook is one of the greatest innovations of our time. It allows an individual to put their life online and also look into the lives of others. You can reconnect with childhood friends and stay connected with college buddies. As the Social Network showed, it also allows you to find out if that girl/guy you’ve [...]
By Todd Balsley, GL Advisor High student debt levels among law school graduates and a tight job market have captured major news headlines, leaving many graduates unsure how they will manage their student debt burden. Fortunately, federal programs like Income-Based Repayment (IBR) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) are available and can help borrowers minimize [...]
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4 Comments »As you hopefully read in “A Pitfall of Law School,” law school does NOT prepare you for life as an attorney. Therefore, we suggest you search your law schools class lists for something resembling “Law and Motion.” Essentially, this is a course dedicated to teaching the ins-and-outs of writing motions and other legal pleadings you [...]
