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
We all know that law schools are under attack for over promising on the jobs front during a seriously down market. But there are a bunch of other reasons why going to law school makes a heap of sense and this list, written by Madison Rutherford at San Francisco State University, provides a mere 22
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What does it take to be outstanding in the law and to make your mark in the profession? Any number of factors, possibly, but in the case of Joshua Matz, there are some clear indications of someone who is able beyond his meagre years. Joshua Matz teamed up with Harvard law professor CHristopher Michel
Susan Cartier Liebel has written for legal consultants Trebuchet about what she would l ike to have known before going to law school I was recently asked by a friend and solo practice guru, Jay Foonberg, if I would canvas my Solo Practice University students and readers. He wanted to know what skills new law school
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Using humor to teach law is something prescribed as one of the best forms of medicine by a law professor who believes using the “pedagogical power of laughter” can be a hugely underestimated tool when it comes to teaching. Professor Reed, a clinical law professor at Northwestern University Law School believes humor, properly used, can
The shooting of law professor Dan Markel, the founder of the PrawfsBlawg, who opened his door to be shot in the ultimate irony for a man whose death has created shock waves in the US legal academic community. Police say Mr. Markel, 41, a criminal law professor at FSU College of Law and founder of
Can the new “freelance lawyer” really be a law firm model that works? Well, it seems so according to an interview with a London-based lawyer – one of thousands embracing the new age of the freelance lawyer, someone who can be paid to work from anywhere – and yes, that includes the beach. The PCG,
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It’s been a tough law jobs market for some years and the situation in the US affects not just big law firms but also public law jobs, in house counsel positions and others have been badly hit. BusinessWeek reports that law has been particularly hard hit by the slump in services since 2008. Work dried
