After a stunning series of law firm layoffs and incoming associate start-date deferrals this year, some 43,000 third-year students will soon be graduating from the nation’s law schools.
A written opinion doesn’t give his name. But an anonymous would-be New York lawyer with some $430,000 in delinquent student loans dating back to 1985 presumably knows who the New…
So many law firms have deferred the start date for entering first-year associates that a number reportedly are having difficulty finding jobs at nonprofit organizations.
For those who didn’t get the message from their mothers while they were still living at home, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley has circulated a…
North Carolina Central University law student Matt Reeder is revealing how he prepared for a moot court competition judged by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
A legal consultant says summer associate programs could be on the way out, spurred by the economic downturn and by firms’ informal analyses showing that lawyers hired from the programs…
They’re uneducated, living in what amounts to a prison, and often minorities from low-income families who haven’t had a lot of luxuries offered to them in life.
Although Steven Gey is in the final stages of Lou Gehrig’s disease, he is still teaching students in the third year of a terminal illness that his doctors expect to…
Prosecutors are meeting today to discuss whether to file murder charges against the driver of a minivan that crashed into a car early yesterday, killing Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher…
Last year, some summer associates were complaining about too much fattening food and alcohol. “They throw numerous social events that last for eight hours, including heavy drinking,…
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