While some legal news services and blogs remain transfixed by the never-ending deluge of law firm layoffs (the 12-day tally of axings tops 3,000) others have…
A spokeswoman for Dallas-based Winstead has confirmed that the law firm is canceling its summer associate program this year, but she offers few details.
As a growing number of major law firms delay start dates for incoming associates and make record-breaking layoffs (some 2,700 have been announced since Feb. 27), it’s obvious that worried…
A study of an alternative to the Law School Admission Test found it was better at predicting lawyer effectiveness, but no better at predicting success in law school.
Few movies involve taxes as a central plot element, but that hasn’t stopped members of the TaxProf Listserv from offering their tax film recommendations for law students.
A law professor who banned laptops in his first-year criminal law class surveyed his students about their reaction—and found it was generally positive.
As laid-off lawyers look for work, they are competing not only against each other but a fresh crop of would-be legal eagles about to graduate from law school within the…
Law students recruited in the fall for 2009 summer associate positions are seeing a one-third drop in job offers, according to a recent survey by the National Association for Law…
Applications to Duke University School of Law hit an all-time record high this year, surging by 4 percent, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School saw a 6 percent increase,…
Two Harvard law students working as legal interns on behalf of a Texas death-row inmate were stopped by sheriff’s deputies and ticketed for criminal trespassing after they tried to interview…
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