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• After First Year of Practice, Law Grads Settle In to Lawyer Life

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 442
  The past 12 months have been a tumultuous time in the legal industry. One year ago, federal lawmakers approved a $700 billion bailout for the financial system. Around that same time, many of the 2008 law school graduates were just beginning their careers. Despite the turbulent times, some of those still-new lawyers ...
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• Harvard Law Students Clamor for Public Interest Jobs, Forcing Program Cuts

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Harvard Law School has reinstated free coffee and announced stipends of $35,000 to 12 graduates working in public interest law. But in a year of tight budgets, something had to give. Now on the chopping block: a program announced last year that waived third-year tuition for students who commit to work in public ...
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• Beautician Wins Major Property Case for Mom, Gets Law School Scholarship

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  A 23-year-old beautician with no legal training who made headlines by defeating a big British property developer in a High Court case earlier this month is now headed to law school, with the help of a scholarship. Young, blond and apparently underestimated, Georgina Blackwell saved her mothers home and business by ...
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• Georgetown Antes Up $1M to Offer ‘Free’ Tuition to Public Interest Grads

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  At least one well-known institution has reportedly found a way to cut the cost of law school for graduates who pursue public interest careers, and another is going to follow suit. In a plan that dovetails with a new federal program that allows public interest lawyers to pay only 10 percent of their income toward their ...
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• Law Schools Reporting Drops of Up to 45% in On-Campus Interviews

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  A news report on the bleak job market for law grads is filled with numbers illustrating the problems. The law school at the University of Texas at Austin reported a 45 percent drop in on-campus interviews, ABC News reports. At Harvard, the percentage of employers participating in law student recruitment is down by 20 ...
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• Court Stands Firm: Law License Denied Because of Unpaid Student Loans

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  A law graduate denied bar admission because of unpaid student loans saw another setback earlier this month, when a New York appeals court refused to reconsider its decision in the case. On Nov. 19, the court refused Robert Bowman’s motion for reconsideration, the New York Times reports. Bowman’s student debt, ...
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• Several States Move Closer to National Bar Exam

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  The debate for a uniform bar exam heats up as more jurisdictions consider the adoption of a single exam and scoring system that would be accepted from state to state. Missouri bar officials say they could offer the first national exam as early as 2010, USA Today reports. Jurisdictions also considering the idea include ...
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• Upcoming international conference on contemplative practices in law and conflict resolution

  
  idealawg — Authority: 136
  I spent this weekend in Berkeley planning a spring conference, to be held in upper New York, on contemplative practices. The hours spent in planning were long, but the 9 lawyers in attendance are excited about next years event. Tentative plans include tracks for lawyers, law schools, and mediators; and invitations to ...
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• ‘The Right Program for Every Student’ Is Not a Contract, Court Tells 2L

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  A transfer student unhappy with his “C” grade in a legal writing course has lost a lawsuit seeking to force New York Law School to change to a pass-fail system. Plaintiff Timothy Keefe claimed he was disadvantaged when New York Law School placed him in Legal Writing II, according to the opinion by a New York trial ...
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• Grad Without a Credit Card Passes Bar Exam After Suing to Take the Test

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  There’s a happy ending to the story of disabled law grad who sued when California bar examiners refused to process her application to take the test because she didn’t fill in a credit card number. Sara Granda, a graduate of the University of California at Davis School of Law, has passed the exam, the Sacramento ...
  1 week ago

• Law Student, Reluctant to Give Up Laptop, Disarms Would-Be Robber

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  A student at Cooley Law School disarmed a robber wielding a hunting rifle who had burst into a coffee house in Grand Rapids, Mich., in the early morning hours last Thursday. The robber at the Bitter End Coffee House demanded laptops and other valuables, but 3L Shady Yassin was reluctant to part with his computer, the ...
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• Online Applications for Judicial Clerkships Jump by 66%

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Online applications for federal clerkships jumped by 66 percent this year, spurred by an increase in applicants and the number of clerkships for which they applied.The number of applicants increased by 42 percent, and they applied for an average of about 38 clerkships each, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal ...
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• Online Applications for Judicial Clerkships Jump by 66%

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 636
  Online applications for federal clerkships jumped by 66 percent this year, spurred by an increase in applicants and the number of clerkships for which they applied.The number of applicants increased by 42 percent, and they applied for an average of about 38 clerkships each, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal ...
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• Event Planning for Law Students

  
  Lawyerist — Authority: 139
  Guest post from Craig Janis. Successfully running an organization often means getting people to attend your organization’s events. This is true for almost every type of organization, including law school clubs, professional groups, and community associations. While different kinds of organizations have different ...
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• Viacoms General Counsel Lecture On Copyright Leaves Out Certain...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Someone once told me that Viacoms top lawyer, Michael Fricklas, has been known to read Techdirt on occasion. read more
  2 weeks ago

• West Puts Law Books On Kindle

  
  Adjunct Law Prof Blog — Authority: 478
  West recently announced that it is releasing e-book editions of 29 of its most popular law books. The releases include the book co-authored by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia legal wordsmith Bryan Garner, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading...
  2 weeks ago

• blawg quotables #1

  
  The Shark — Authority: 112
  [dennis] Advice to 0Ls. The Divine Details: Apply early or else you’ll be the only person in your class to be waitlisted at a peer school and it’ll be embarrassing when the inevitable “So why’d you chose x over y?”...
  3 weeks ago

• Barbri iPhone App: Is there any utility?

  
  Social Media Law Student — Authority: 529
  Barbri is a known frenemy (see definition here ) to law students around the nation. You hate the price and the grueling schedule, but many of us would not make it to the licensed attorney stage without it. On September 17th of this year, Barbri released an iPhone app, now on version 1.1. I downloaded the app a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Day in the Life of a Law Student

  
  News For the Mormon Legal Community — Authority: 115
  7:00 - 8:00 : I woke up and got ready for the day. For my International Human Rights class, my partner and I are going to be doing a mock deposition which required me to wear my suit and tie. I much prefer my normal ensemble of jeans and a T-Shirt.  8:00 - 9:00 : Drove to school and there wasnt any traffic. Not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Whats it Really Like to be a Law Student?

  
  News For the Mormon Legal Community — Authority: 115
  Before starting law school I often wondered whats it really like? Can it really be that much harder than being an undergrad? Are professors really as mean as people have told me? Will I be able to keep up with the work load required? I spent hours visiting every blog and website I could find to learn what law school ...
  3 weeks ago

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