After a year of unprecedented BigLaw layoffs and pay cuts, Duke University is offering a new law school program that could help point some attorneys in a different direction.
Presumably by accident, a third-year student at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law apparently hit “reply all” when sending an e-mail application late yesterday afternoon to serve as a…
A second-year law student at Boston College who is one of the country’s 100 top-rated chess players has been playing the game ever since a quick defeat in a seventh-grade…
After news of an avalanche of online applications for federal judicial clerkships, it occurred to one reporter to wonder how judges and their staffs were finding time to look at…
A third-year Temple law student has been charged with assault and attempted murder in a shooting caught on videotape outside a Fox television studio in Philadelphia.
Ordered to reconsider his earlier opinion discharging the $82,000 student loan debt of a 65-year-old unemployed law school graduate, an obviously annoyed bankruptcy judge has granted Denise Bronsdon the same…
At least nine big law firms in Texas sent out job offer letters without specifying the salaries they would be paying their new associates. Some firms also declined to set…
About a third of the law students at Yale spent at least two years in other pursuits before beginning their law studies. Will those students find the job search more…
Concerned that law students’ use of laptop computers in the classroom is interfering with their legal education, some professors at Villanova University School of Law are banning them within their…
A NALP commission is recommending that law firms push back the date for summer associate job offers until mid-January of the second year of law school, giving employers more time…
Updated:Dickinson School of Law gave 261 alumni some bad news last month: Malicious software had infected a university computer containing an archived list including…
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