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NY Times: Law School Grade Inflation and What it Means
We (and by “we” I mean “Colin”) reported a while ago that Loyola Law School was in the process of artificially inflating its grades to ostensibly put Loyola grads on a more even playing field than they...
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US News: Law School Demand Rising with Tuition
US News and World Report, of all things, has a piece today that essentially brings the hammer down on people applying to law school. In the article, the author, Katy Hopkins, implies that it’s a...
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The LSAT in a Globalized World
I received a tweet from one of our many millions of twitter followers the other day, asking me what I thought of the Economist story about the rise of globalization and its effect on the legal industry...
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Sucky LSAT and GPA Numbers? Rethink Your Plans
Ann Levine of US News dropped anvils of knowledge on unsuspecting potential law students this week. In her piece on the US News blog on Monday, Levine asked the question, “Can You Really Go to Law...
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Don’t Have a Job? Go on a Hunger Strike!
Remember the good old days, when people would go on hunger strikes to promote good causes, or to actually evoke change, or to do away with stretch marks? Gandhi. The Tibetans. Various dissidents...
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What if You Don’t Want to be a Lawyer?
What if you go to law school and decide that being a lawyer sounds about as pleasant as cleaning your fingernails with a bamboo shoot? A few weeks ago, Vault asked that question on their blog and got a...
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Five Reasons to Get a Law Degree Despite the Economic Apocalypse
There is an awful lot of fear mongering out there right now- a record number of people taking the LSAT, more competition for increasingly expensive law school seats, and even unemployed law graduates...
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Ave Maria and Law School Transparency
So, remember a while back when that chick was doing the whole hunger strike thing because she went to a fourth-tier law school and was under-employed? That was all for the purpose of something called...
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Law School Debt and the American Dream
I’m currently about 14k in the hole with student loans, which isn’t too bad, as far as such things go. It sucks to have to drop $200 every month, but I’m pretty sure there are about a billion people in...
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Debate: Are Law Students Well Prepared for the Job Market?
Our friends Carolyn Wise and Brian Dalton at Vault.com had an interesting (if unintentional) debate this week about the preparedness of law school grads for the legal job market. We’ve re-posted with...
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