advice to law students
Some thoughts on Selecting Electives in Law School
Professor Volokh had an intriguing post today, Law School Classes One Should Definitely Take If One Wants To Practice in the Area. It’s an open comment post and the commentary is intriguing. It made me think of my own particular view of how to choose classes.
Now a year and a half into this venture, I’m […]
Angsty Law School Emo Music
Well at least he’s got a music career to fall back on. Owen Jarvis is now a third-year student at the University of Maryland School of Law. here. He could always pull a New Line.
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The Science of Passing the Bar Exam
When it comes time to choose electives, law students are awash in a sea of choices with very little in the way of a paddle to help them determine what they should take. The conventional wisdom is that those with a burning desire in a particular area should take courses in that area while those […]
Two Americas, the two-sided Job Market for Newly Minted Law Grads
The Wall Street Journal’s Amir Efrati has an interesting article yesterday on the job prospects for recent law grads as a whole Hard Case: Job Market Wanes for U.S. Lawyers
For graduates of elite law schools, prospects have never been better. Big law firms this year boosted their starting salaries to as high as $160,000. But […]
Friends on CrackBerry? Miss Manners’ advice
This law school grad’s plea found its way to Fortune Magazine’s Ask Annie column:
I am a recent law-school graduate and, though I’m not yet working at a law firm, I have friends who are. I understand that things in international firms happen 24/7, 365 days a year, and I want to be as supportive of […]
Scare you to death, Work you to death, Bore you to death
This maxim for the evolution of the law student’s confused meandering toward matriculation is so far all too true in my experience, by which I apologize for the relative lack of posting lately. Technology giveth where law review taketh away however - I’m composing this post on my Crackberry 8800 which I highly recommend.
More on the Billable Hour, Charting Your Own Course
I recent wrote about the billable hour here in The Death of the Billable Hour, Wishing Does Not Make it So. Susan Cartier Liebel left a comment with a link to her excellent post The Cockroach of the Legal Profession - The Billable Hour. The most surprising fact - one that many lawyers are not […]
A Course on the Legal Profession
“Indiana Law faculty recently voted to revise our 1L curriculum to make room for a new 4-credit Legal Professions course.”
Bill Henderson at the Empirical Legal Studies Blog: A 4-Credit 1L Course on the Legal Profession
This seems like a very, very good idea to me. Did any of us have even the inkling of a clue […]
Recommended Reading for before Starting Law School, The Legal Analyst, A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
Before you start law school at Houston they give you a list of recommended books, most of which are at least marginally useful. I particularly recommend the Buffalo Creek Disaster and A Civil Action if you’re looking for the most interesting of the lot. I flipped through some of the other stuff such as Acing […]
How to Win Friends and Influence People in On Campus Interviews (OCI)
Each fall law school campuses blossom with a thousand hopeful dreams of spending the rest of their lives in a little cubicle high up on the skyline. This instructional video will help future lawyers “get their interview on.”