The Shark

The Shark

Covers news and culture directly relating to the experience of being a law school student.

Author: This is a Cal Law blog. Justin Gosling is a 1L at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, Abony Holmes is a 1L at the University of California-Berkeley's Boalt Hall and Brian Lauter is a 2L at the University of California-Davis. Cynthia Foster is Cal Law's web editor, and Petra Pasternak is a Cal Law business reporter.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Schools • Law Students • University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall • University of California, Davis • University of California, Hastings College of the Law • Law Student • Legal News Publication

Recent Posts from The Shark


  • blawg quotables #1

    [dennis] Advice to 0Ls. The Divine Details: Apply early or else you’ll be the only person in your class to be waitlisted at a peer school and it’ll be embarrassing when the inevitable “So why’d…

  • news! Orrick does like it said it would!

    [Brian] Some Shark readers may not regularly read Above The Law. Damn popular blog, yeah, but some days it’s also liable to scare you right out of your chosen profession. So if you missed it,…

  • why does law school cost so much?

    [dennis] Are we getting more value for our buck or is this the price of prestige? The CM Law blog has found a government report that answers the question: According to law school officials, the…

  • pay-as-you-go law school?

    [dennis] Oh the irony of law schools charging future lawyers hidden fees! A student from the UVA law school has an interesting idea, the pay-as-you-go law school: The announcement that 3Ls planning on attending their…

  • blind student sues for equal access to bar and MPRE.

    [petra] Stephanie Enyart doesn’t want to be a law clerk indefinitely. Enyart, who is working at Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley, is legally blind. Since graduating in spring 2009, she’s been trying to take her…

  • not with a bang, but with a whimper: 2009 associate bonus season.

    [cynthia] The Wall Street Journal Law Blog is reporting that associate bonus season has been opened by Cravath. While the announcement is positive in one way (there are going to be bonuses this year!), the…

  • two california law schools get huge grant for innocence project.

    [petra] The federal government has dropped some major moolah into the hands of two California law professors for clinical programs that investigate inmates’ claims of innocence. California Western School of Law and Santa Clara University…

  • justice thomas loosens the tie at a law school event.

    [cynthia] Sharon Nichols, a blogger and law student from Alabama, posted an interesting recap today of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas's appearance at her school. Justice Thomas played the question and answer game with law students,…

  • ALERT, job available: internship opportunity with the ACLU in california.

    [petra] Don’t know what you’re doing next summer? The ACLU of Southern California is accepting applications from law students interested in national security and immigrant rights litigation for its 2010 summer internship. The ACLU office…

  • more rankings, more problems: us news to blame for high tuition.

    [cynthia] According to a study released by Government Accountability Office, we can all gather 'round and blame US News (and its less popular siblings) for the rapid clip of tuition increases in the last few…