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Plight of Jewish Legal Professionals under Nazis Focus of Law School Exhibit

Law schools / April 14, 2015

INDIANAPOLIS -LawFuel.com – The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will host a traveling exhibit that focuses on the plight of Jewish legal professionals in Nazi-controlled Germany.The exhibit, “Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich,” runs April 20 to 28 in the Ruth Lilly Law Library on the first […]

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Weil Gotshal’s April Fools Day Backfire

Law Firms, Law Job News / April 8, 2015

Weil Gotshal & Manges is a major, white shoe law firm. But their April fools joke went down like they had their feet in their mouths.Big mistake Weil.They ‘joke’ was a work/life balance one – you’ve heard them, we’re sure. It declared that under a firm-wide, new email policy no emails were to go out

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Rolling Stone’s “A Rape on a Campus” Lawsuit

Law schools / April 6, 2015

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 discrepancies

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Law Students Face Reduced Opportunity

Law schools / March 19, 2015

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 high,

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Are Law Firms Making The Same Hiring Mistakes as Always?

Law Firms, Law Job News / March 16, 2015

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 repeat may

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Thinking of a Law Career? Go to Court First

Law Job News, Law schools / February 18, 2015

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

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Law Job Problems in China

Law Job News / February 12, 2015

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 Xiaoxiao,

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Depressed Lawyers: Suicide and Substance Abuse and More

Law schools, Lawyers / January 15, 2015

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 occupation,

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50 Top Law Schools

Law schools / November 24, 2014

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 Survey

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Big League Law Pays Big Bonuses Again

Featured, Law Job News / November 23, 2014

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, which

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