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Ethan Haines is on a hunger strike. As the self-appointed spokesman for all law students, he is “disillusioned by law school employment statistics, commercial school rankings, and antiquated career counseling programs.” Evidently, he’s “being the change” he wants to see. (What does that even mean anyway? I want my law school to do more to [...] Have I told you my new favorite joke? Most don’t find it funny. Frankly, I love it. I crack myself every time I tell it. That’s probably because I’ve never been much of a joke teller and this one qualifies more as a witty rejoin than full on joke. Anyway, goes something like this… Someone: Wow! Entering your last year [...] Do clothes make the man or woman? Is there anything to be said for giving some more thought to what you wear in a professional setting rather than just settling for whatever you’ve done in the past? I’m spending this summer at a law firm in Northern Virginia where the attorneys dress business casual. Obviously for [...] I’m intrigued by these stories this week about North Carolina Central School of Law being the best buy for law school. The law school combines low in-state tuition, focus on clinical skills (they have 14 clinical programs), high first-time bar passage rates, and low debt loads for graduates. The school admits to being a “no frills” [...] Today, I’m reading this interesting debate over at the New York Times website, asking the question whether MBA students are “students” or “consumers.” I wouldn’t say the arguments made are earth shattering or particularly insightful. But the question posed is an interesting, albeit purely theoretical, one to me. So pardon the completely impractical discussion, but [...] This post at Brazen Careerist purported to offer readers “criteria” for evaluating whether to go to law school. It’s a nice read, but it doesn’t offer a single criterion, really. And since there are record numbers of people taking the LSAT, I figured it was worth trying to find some criteria on which to base [...] This post over at Virginia Lawyers’ Weekly got me thinking about some of the more memorable moments from my interviews this fall. In response to my question about the effect of the economy on the firm’s business, a BigLaw Partner said, “Well, if it kills the billable hour it’ll be the best thing that ever happened [...] |
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