Law graduates need a better understanding of law firm economics, better writing skills. more practical experience and more management training, according to a survey of practice chairs, hiring partners and…
Northwestern University law school sees a connection between 1L Armand Musey’s mountain-climbing exploits and its first group of students entering its new two-year J.D. program.
Summer will be a time of increased pressure for law students hired on as summer associates at the many law firms that are reducing the lengths of their programs.
There is no substitute for on-the-job training, and Drinker Biddle & Reath’s plan to pay new associates less and train them more is “a courageous step,” according to one law…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was his usual blunt self last month when he responded to a law student’s question on how to become “outrageously successful” despite a lack…
New information about at least one law firm that is further pushing back the start date for incoming first-year associates isn’t yet included in a lengthy list published today by…
The financial meltdown has spurred interest in derivatives classes among law students interested in learning about the origins of the crisis and hoping to tap into an expanding job market…
Four now-prominent attorneys who founded the Federalist Society in 1982 while they were still in law school are being awarded a $250,000 Bradley Prize.
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