The Alabama State Bar just released the following report: Thirty-four percent of Fall 2011 new admittees who responded to a survey conducted by the Alabama State Bar indicated they graduated from law school with educational debt in the range of $100,000 to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...