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
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
