Law Students

Law Grad Acquitted, Relies on Polygraph

A judge’s decision to admit the results of a polygraph exam may have helped a law school graduate win acquittal Monday in an Ohio sexual battery case. Sahil Sharma had been charged for a sexual encounter with a woman after a wedding they attended in Cuyahoga Falls, the Cleveland Plain…

Sep 5, 2007 2:54 PM CDT

Sideshow ‘Geek’ Seeks Law Degree

Corrected: As classes begin today at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., it appears likely that one incoming student will stand out just a bit from the other first-years. Eduardo Arrocha, 45, otherwise known as “Eak the Geek,” a self-described sideshow freak, has decided it’s time for a…

Sep 4, 2007 7:54 PM CDT

Law Grad Wins Case, Keeps on Truckin’

A would-be lawyer with a green pickup has succeeded in overturning a Florida city ordinance that barred him from parking overnight in residential areas. Lowell Kuvin, who is waiting for bar exam results after graduating from Miami’s University of St. Thomas School of Law, won his case last week before…

Aug 31, 2007 2:40 PM CDT

Law Firm Grants Scholarship—and Summer Job

A major international law firm that started out in Florida has endowed a scholarship at one of the state’s law schools that not only pays a second-year student’s tuition but guarantees him or her a summer job. Holland & Knight hopes that its law school scholarship at historically African-American Florida…

Aug 24, 2007 8:09 PM CDT

Promise to Pay for Law School is Enforceable

A Minnesota man who promised to pay for a neighbor to attend law school must ante up, a state appeals court has ruled. Walter Fields is required to honor his admitted promise and pay for Marjorie Conrad’s legal education, ruled the Minnesota Court of Appeals, upholding an $87,000 trial court…

Aug 23, 2007 10:36 PM CDT

Man Who Killed Wife Failed Bar 4 Times

After Clifton Eames failed the Texas bar exam four times, he helped persuade the state supreme court to adopt a more flexible rule last year about how many times applicants could take the test. By this point, however, his life was spiraling downward. Monday afternoon, he allegedly murdered his wife…

Aug 22, 2007 8:41 PM CDT

Blogging for Success

Blogging was the ticket to success for Harvard University law student Jeremy Blachman. After interviewing for work as a summer associate, he created an online character called Anonymous Lawyer that was based on the partners he had met. Readers believed the writer who wrote about his e-mail obsession and his…

Aug 13, 2007 4:01 PM CDT

Party Almost Over for 2007 ‘Summers’

Question: When can a law student get paid for traveling to London? Answer: When he or she is working as a summer associate at Dechert. The 1000-attorney firm took all 99 of its 2007 summer associates in 17 offices in the U.S. and Europe to London, where it also has…

Aug 6, 2007 10:44 PM CDT

Law Grad Spots Stylish Attire in Trash

When she moved to Chicago from New York after graduating from law school last year, Lauri Apple, who is still looking for the job of her dreams, knew of at least one good way to save money. If she needs something to wear, she takes a look in the local…

Aug 6, 2007 9:47 PM CDT

Big Firms, Short Interviews

Big law firms spend as much as $250,000 for each summer associate they recruit, yet the interview process is far from demanding. “Ask law firm recruits—particularly those from elite schools—about the recruiting experience, and the stories are fairly similar: Short interviews, shallow questions and a sheaf of boilerplate marketing materials,”…

Aug 6, 2007 12:59 PM CDT

“So, this lawyer walks into a bar ...”

Days before Cassandra E. Hooks was to sit for the California bar exam, her 4-year-old son was hospitalized with a bacterial infection.

Aug 1, 2007 8:30 AM CDT

This Law Grad Better at Business

If you are wondering if law is really the career for you, the experience of Jim Lanzone could prove inspirational. He attended Emory University law school in Atlanta and “hated it from the moment I started,” according to an article in the New York Times. As a summer associate, “I…

Jul 30, 2007 12:19 PM CDT

Bar Exam Film Ups Ante for 6 Law Grads

It’s hard enough just studying for the bar exam. But six California law graduates decided to up the ante even further by doing so in the public eye. Responding to a 2006 request by documentary filmmakers, they agreed to allow video footage of everything from crying jags and the struggle…

Jul 26, 2007 6:24 PM CDT

NY Bar Exam Marred by Glitch

Bar examiners in New York suspect a software glitch caused test takers to experience problems this week saving and uploading their essays. Diane Bosse, chairwoman of the Board of Law Examiners, told the New York Law Journal that officials are trying to determine if any answers were lost. She says…

Jul 26, 2007 1:06 PM CDT

BAR/BRI Settlement Approved

A federal judge has approved a $49 million settlement in a class action suit against a bar review course. But U.S. District Judge Manuel Real refused to approve incentive payments to class representatives and cut requested attorney fees, the Recorder reports. Real said class representatives had a conflict of interest,…

Jul 10, 2007 12:32 PM CDT