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Troubled Kentucky Law School to Close

A troubled Kentucky law school will file for bankruptcy and close its doors at the end of the year. The Barkley School of Law in Paducah, with 10 full- and part-time students, is “just not viable,” its dean, Larry Putt, told the National Law Journal. A statement by the school’s…

Oct 23, 2008 1:39 PM CDT

Judge Cuts Attorney Fees by $1M in NY BAR/BRI Settlement

Lawyers who sued BAR/BRI for alleged antitrust violations in New York saw their requested attorney fees slashed by about $1 million in a settlement of the case. U.S. District Judge William Pauley denied a request for a 24 percent contingent fee, which would have amounted to $3.1 million, the New…

Oct 23, 2008 12:41 PM CDT

Law School Free for UC Irvine’s Entering 2009 Class

Students who enroll at the University of California’s new law school in Irvine next fall will get their legal education for free. The law school is giving full tuition scholarships worth about $100,000 to its first 2009 class of about 60 students, the National Law Journal reports. Charles Cannon, assistant…

Oct 22, 2008 2:34 PM CDT

Job-Seeking Law Students Advised to be Flexible and Expect a Long Search

Law students should expect the job hunt to last six to eight months, making patience an important attribute, a law professor says. In a column for the American Lawyer, New York Law School professor Cameron Stracher warns of a difficult and lengthy job hunt but says students should not despair.…

Oct 22, 2008 1:36 PM CDT

New Law Grads Urged to Have Backup Plans

The nearly 44,000 law students set to graduate in 2009 will have at an average of $73,000 in loan debt and face a grim hiring market. The 3Ls who’ve come to grips with the fact that many won’t make big-firm wages are now also grappling with the country’s economic downturn…

Oct 20, 2008 6:21 PM CDT

Students Rate Law Schools: Texas No. 1 for Classrooms, Va. for Quality of Life

The University of Texas School of Law has the best classroom experience and the University of Virginia School of Law has the best quality of life, according to the Princeton Review’s new rankings. The review’s publication Best 174 Law Schools is based on surveys of 18,000 law students and school-reported…

Oct 20, 2008 4:48 PM CDT

Recruiter: Summer Associate Positions Could Decline by Up to 35%

A recruiter is predicting that 2009 will be a tough year for summer associates. Recruiter Jerry Kowalski told the National Law Journal he estimates that summer associate positions will decline by 30 percent to 35 percent next year. The story says a handful of law firms have canceled next year’s…

Oct 17, 2008 4:22 PM CDT

Law Students Pursue Securities Cases for Small Investors

With an expected surge in civil and criminal fraud cases on the horizon over questions about the conduct of those involved in making mortgage loans blamed for a worldwide credit crisis, several law schools will soon be graduating a new crop of students who already have trial experience in the…

Oct 13, 2008 7:04 PM CDT

Magazine Lists 50 Law Schools With Best Financial Aid Ratios

A magazine for law students has made a list of the nation’s 50 most generous ABA-accredited law schools, as far as their ratio of financial aid to tuition is concerned. The National Jurist ranking—which puts Michigan-based Thomas M. Cooley Law School at the top of the list—is based on a…

Oct 10, 2008 8:29 PM CDT

Summer Associate Gripes: No BlackBerrys, Too Much Food and Booze

Summer associates surveyed by American Lawyer were relatively happy with their experiences, giving their firms an average score of 4.541 on a 1-5 scale. They earned an average of about $3,000 a week and said, on the whole, that they were getting more interesting work. But that didn’t stop the…

Oct 9, 2008 2:00 PM CDT

Yale Law Students Gagged in Protest

For the second straight year, Yale Law School students protested the presence of military recruiters at the school’s career fair because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays and lesbians. About 40 students dressed in interview attire and gags stood on the school’s steps on Wednesday, then…

Oct 3, 2008 2:08 PM CDT

Tight Credit Market Likely Won’t Affect Law School Loans

The tight credit market won’t affect the kind of government backed loans used by most law students, but it could but a damper on private loans that tide over recent grads as they study for the bar. New York Law School Dean Richard Matasar told the National Law Journal that…

Oct 2, 2008 5:04 PM CDT

Hilary Swank’s Next Movie Based on Law Student’s Fight to Exonerate Brother

A high-school dropout and single mother who was inspired to get her high school equivalency diploma and put herself through college and law school by her brother’s 1983 murder conviction will be played by actress Hilary Swank in an upcoming movie. The woman whose true story will be portrayed in…

Oct 1, 2008 6:18 PM CDT

After Big Lottery Win, 18-Year-Old Still Plans Legal Career

She no longer has any need for the income that a legal career will bring. But 18-year-old Ianthe Fullagar is still planning to pursue a law degree, after a holiday in Egypt. And, says the United Kingdom teen, the $12.5 million or so (in U.S. dollars) that she just won…

Sep 30, 2008 11:22 PM CDT

Harvard Law Drops Letter Grades

Following the path blazed by several elite rivals, Harvard Law School has decided to drop letter grades. The planned change to a modified pass-fail system was announced Friday in an e-mail by Dean Elena Kagan, reports the Yale Daily News in a lengthy article about new developments at HLS under…

Sep 30, 2008 11:03 PM CDT

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Law Students

Troubled Kentucky Law School to Close

Judge Cuts Attorney Fees by $1M in NY BAR/BRI Settlement

Law School Free for UC Irvine’s Entering 2009 Class

Job-Seeking Law Students Advised to be Flexible and Expect a Long Search

New Law Grads Urged to Have Backup Plans

Students Rate Law Schools: Texas No. 1 for Classrooms, Va. for Quality of Life

Recruiter: Summer Associate Positions Could Decline by Up to 35%

Law Students Pursue Securities Cases for Small Investors

Magazine Lists 50 Law Schools With Best Financial Aid Ratios

Summer Associate Gripes: No BlackBerrys, Too Much Food and Booze

Yale Law Students Gagged in Protest

Tight Credit Market Likely Won’t Affect Law School Loans

Hilary Swank’s Next Movie Based on Law Student’s Fight to Exonerate Brother

After Big Lottery Win, 18-Year-Old Still Plans Legal Career

Harvard Law Drops Letter Grades

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