School-Sponsored MSU Student Blog Gives Applicants Snapshots of Law School Life
Hey, prospective legal eagles. Want to know what law school is really like?
A new student blog at the Michigan State University College of Law may not provide all the answers. However, Kristen Flory, director of the school’s marketing and communications department, promoted the idea and apparently sees Spartan bLAWg as a plus factor for persuading applicants about the benefits of attending school there.
About nine of the 18 law students who applied were accepted as bloggers and are now paid $250 to write at least two posts monthly, reports the Associated Press in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
Although posts are initially unedited before they go up, they may subsequently be revised. One blogger, 22-year-old Brett Manchel, was asked to edit a post that criticized East Lansing, compared to Ann Arbor.
Censorship hasn’t been an issue, Flory tells the news agency, in part because the bloggers understand there is a relationship between the value of their law degrees and the school’s reputation.
