From his office at Butzel Long’s Detroit headquarters, lawyer Richard Rassel can watch the massive 18-wheel trucks driving across the Ambassador Bridge from Michigan into Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Updated: A report released today concludes that political appointees in the Justice Department focused on hiring conservative lawyers and eschewed liberals in an honors program for law graduates.
Life as a summer associate may include editing footnotes, juggling multiple due dates, writing memos and, at least at one Toronto law firm, recording your experiences on a blog.
Not law graduates for nothing, a small group of juris doctor degree holders have successfully sought federal class action status over Wisconsin’s policy of allowing only graduates of in-state law…
Forty-four minority students attending a law school boot camp hosted by the Council on Legal Education Opportunity got a quick introduction to legal debate…
Wrestler Patricia Miranda, who is seeking an Olympic gold medal after a third-place finish in 2004, is a law graduate. So is her husband, who is also her coach.
At first glance, things don’t appear so bad for summer associates. Some at the biggest law firms will be earning $3,000 a week. And record numbers were hired this year…
Although a Yale Law School diploma didn’t prevent Clarence Thomas from getting a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court bench, it didn’t help him much either, he has said. In…
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