Associate's Mind

In the wake of yesterday’s post How to Juggle a Family and Law School (or a Law Firm), someone asked me on Twitter: re: juggling law school/family. Any suggestions for the spouses of law students? To which I replied, I wasn’t sure but I would ask my wife when I got home and report back. So I [...]

I was recently asked this question by a reader: I see that you had a baby during law school. Other than the tips from the post about outside time commitments, any advice for an upcoming 1L with two tots and a wife? I was going to reply privately, but decided to post my response here [...]

So I guess the Department of Education has their own SWAT Teams now? They can issue their own search warrants and subpoenas? The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in S.W.A.T for his wife’s defaulted student loans. “They busted down my door for this,” Wright said. “It wasn’t even me.” Wednesday morning, [...]

A few posts around the web today on advice for law students heading into summer jobs. Most of it is applicable to new lawyers as well. Excerpts below: Prawfsblog: Getting an Assignment Always have a pad and pen.  When given an assignment ask questions.  Better to ask even the dumbest question at the beginning than [...]

This is a bit of an aside, if you are a law student, or fresh lawyer, there are two post you need to read over at law:dev/null. If you’re not interested in reading about why or why not to go to law school, feel free to skip this post. ________ Greg ran through a bit of a [...]

…I hope none of you graduated during this awful period or are about to graduate. If you did, sit down while you read this. The starting salary for people graduating during this recession will be, on average, 17.5% lower than that of comparable peers graduating in better labor markets, according to a study by a [...]

I thought this dovetailed nicely with the previous post. Courtesy of Blog Maverick, Mark Cuban: I’m going to simplify what I consider to be the best investment advice I have ever been given and share it with you.  Here you go: 1. If you have any credit card or other type of consumer debt on [...]

The ABA Journal recently put up a brief comment from the new Georgetown Law Dean: The new dean of Georgetown University Law Center sees an upside to the tough job market for lawyers. In an interview with the Washington Post publication Capital Business, Georgetown law dean William Michael Treanor says grads are now more likely to [...]

If you’re a soon-to-graduate law student or a freshly-minted lawyer, here are some numbers to keep in mind, courtesy of Businessweek and CalculatedRisk:

In this edition of Postcards from the bar Exam we have Victor Rubino, the President of Practicing Law Institute (PLI). PLI is a non-profit continuing legal education organization chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. They offer seminars held annually in locations across the United States, annually supplemented Treatises, Audio CDs and DVDs, MP3s, Live [...]