By Casebook Sherpa, on January 7th, 2010
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” [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on January 5th, 2010
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 [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on November 25th, 2009
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 [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on November 24th, 2009
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 [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on November 12th, 2009
I’ve heard rumors that the legal job market is a little tight these days. Have you heard about that? Is that really true? I find that hard to believe. I mean law school is basically a guarantee of making serious bank. Isn’t it?
But evidently, the job market is so tight that the ABA is lobbying [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on October 29th, 2009
[Ed Note: This post was so freakin long originally because I hit "publish" instead of "save as draft" after writing this stream of consciousness and I didn't have time to edit it down to near where I wanted it initially until just now, at 6:20 p.m. It's now been edited to where I'd hoped to [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on October 27th, 2009
This story was all the rage last week (also see the Above the Law story that garnered 800+comments). In response to a situation where an associate was not checking e-mail and, consequently, neglected to draft and send a draft letter to a client, a Quinn Emanuel partner sent a firmwide e-mail explaining that associates should [...]
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