A onetime law student had a brief career as a barrister in the United Kingdom, buying his wig and robe on eBay, before he was eventually found out and criminally…
Job-seeking first-year law students should expand their job search beyond their dream jobs, but confine it to geographic areas where they can demonstrate ties.
Applications for the exam needed for most graduate schools will drop this year, marking the first-ever decline in students taking the test during an economic downturn.
The job market for law graduates was relatively strong for 10 years—so strong, in fact, that last year, 92 percent of legal grads found jobs in their field, the strongest…
The dean of the University of Southern California’s law school fears that his students are disadvantaged in the job market by a low grade curve, so he’s proposing a 0.1…
Northwestern University Law School is actively—and unapologetically—recruiting top-performing law students from lower-ranked schools, a practice that some deans claim is becoming commonplace at elite institutions.
A graduate of Florida Coastal law school is facing a criminal charge and a slander suit based on accusations that she created a fake e-mail implicating a professor in sexual…
The founder of the Weather Underground decried his “demonization” in speeches yesterday at Georgetown University Law Center and a Washington D.C. church.
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