Tired of doing debt deals, real estate financing or bankruptcy notifications? Then try fashion law. Take an example from our friends at the Miami Herald who have written about Traurig shareholder Danielle Garno who is using the growing fasion sector in Miami to grow a ‘fashion practice’. Garno is specializing in industry issues such as the Foreign Corrupt
LSAT teacher Ben Olsen writes in the Thinking LSAT blog about that big question: Are law schools responsible as to whether you get a law job or not? Well . . depends. Many promise such, but as Ben Olsen writes: David, a listener who graduated in 2006 with a degree in civil engineering, asks about his
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We love stories about job interviews, because after all it’s central to so much about the life of the young lawyer. So when we read in Forbes about what kills a job interview, from contributor Liz Ryan, the CEO and founder of Human Workplace. We knew there was going to be blood. Somewhere. And she spills the beans,
William Henderson* My previous post excerpted the introduction “How to Solve the Legal Profession’s Diversity Problem.” The article suggests that our diversity challenges are rooted in a systems problem. First, our systems for selecting and developing lawyers is seldom grounded in science. Second, the functioning of these systems are seldom viewed as critical to organizational
The widely anticipated US & World Report Law School rankings have been leaked to law blog SpiveyConsulting, showing the top 100. The US & World Report would not confirm the accuracy of the results, but they are almost certainly the correct rankings, barring some minor adjustments. AbovetheLaw, who reported the Spivey figures noted that among the
Choosing law school is something many lawyers – or aspiring lawyers – do as an almost knee-jerk reaction to their vaguely formed opinions as to what it must be like to be Harvey Specter in “Suits”, or perhaps Ally McBeal. However, the problem is that the right questions are frequently remaining unasked. The questions that
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It’s a serious ‘bear’ market for law schools, it seems, if the current trends in the US are anything to go by. And the finger is being pointed at “less capable” law students entering law school. There has been a record-breaking drop in the average scores for bar exam multiple choice section passes, according to
Are there really too many law schools? Well, yes, actually and this month the ABA accredited another at Concordia University, taking the number beyond 200 in the US. But even the ABA are questioning whether this list should be expanded given that 10 US law schools were unable to place more than 30 per cent
Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for the White House has sparked another debate about unpaid interns. The “overworked and underpaid” (or unpaid) mantra has been something that has developed into lawsuits against major corporations in the past few years. Tales of exploitation and hardship have been aired and many younger voters are attracted to the opposition to
Erik Weber is using his autism to become a legal specialist who can make a special contribution to education law. In May, he became the first student with autism not only to graduate from Cal Western School of Law, but the first to pass the bar exam, which he did at his first attempt. After
