Rolling Stone magazine is used to causing a ruckus with its stories but it’s latest “Rape on a Campus” article has created not just an uproar, but also a retraction and now a lawsuit from the University of Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi. The fraternity house has said it will sue the magazine after […]
Law jobs in the US is a tough market, as numerous reports have shown. The employment stats for law school graduates has been a depressing outlook for graduates. the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) shows a steady fall annually for the past six years. As the Financial Times reports on the situation, figures remain
Are law firms refusing or failing to learn the lessons from the slowdown – particularly litigation firms which appear to have largely overlooked the changing marketplace and expectations from clients? The litigation slowdown has once again raised the prospect of more layoffs and restructuring, something the law profession is hardly wanting to repeat. Yet a
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For students studying law – or even thinking about it – one of the highly worthwhile exercises is to actually go to Court to see how the system works and to obtain a better idea than the text books may provide as to how the law actually works and – perhaps as importantly – whether
China may be the challenging and exciting new frontier for law firms, but Chinese law graduates are facing many of the problems getting law jobs that face their counterparts in America, the UK and elsewhere – graduate numbers rise, but getting a law job is another problem altogether. Take the case of law graduate Li
Depression and mental health issues in the law – both in the professional lawyer and the law student – are well know. AbovetheLaw’s Joe Patrice looks at such issues as substance abuse, depression and suicide. Not pretty subjects, but they need addressing. The pervasive mental health issues plaguing the legal profession are well-established. As an
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Ranking law schools – any schools actually – is a controversial and tricky process at the best of times, which hasn’t prevented many trying. Now we have The Chronical ranking the 50 best law schools in the US based on a survey of over 300 lawyers and other legal professionals and using online survey tool
Are the giddy heights of Big Law paydays here again for the year-end bonus season in New York? It would appear so if some of the city’s most prestigious law firms are anything to go by with bonuses to associates amounting to as much as $40,000 as a result of a growth in M&A work,
Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld has found himself in hot water with students over an op-ed in the NY Times regarding campus rape. The professor’s problem is that he his comments about consent indicate that affirmative consent policies are unenforceable and too broad. More than 75 students have signed an open letter about the
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Lee Burgess, Esq. is the co-founder of the Law School Toolbox, a resource for law students that demystifies the law school experience, the Bar Exam Toolbox, a resource for students getting ready for the bar exam. I got an email from a bar studier today asking if it was okay, when studying full time for the bar
