A friend emailed the link to this piece from McSweeney’s weeks ago. I’ve finally drilled deep enough into my inbox to retrieve it. It’s titled “A Former Investment Banker Analyst Falls Back on Plan B” and is for anyone whose interest in law school just happened to coincide with the recession.
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The WSJ Law Blog recently ran a post that’s worth linking to just for its title: “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Lawyers.” Its substance–or the substance to which it links*–is less cheery, being an academic paper that addresses whether “a law degree is a good investment.” The paper examines the investment [...]
In a post titled “You (and 60,000 Others) Have Taken the LSAT. Now Read This” the WSJ Law Blog urges you college seniors applying in record numbers to take the LSAT to re-examine your path. While the advice is not news to anyone who has followed my posts I recommend it because (1) one should [...]
I’m not trying to discourage prospective law students. Honestly. I just want to reduce the number of former students who return to shout in my face “practicing law sucks!” or “the only job I could get is doing document-review piecework as a $23/hour contract attorney!”
Placement Office Scrambles at Law School Where 65% of Grads Had [...]
A former student currently in law school passes along this advice about reading and preparing cases for class: ”If I can pass any knowledge down to the current undergrads, I would push the 5-highlighter technique as although it seems a bit cumbersome at first, it makes case recall so much easier in class and actually makes book briefing [...]
Over the last few days I’ve heard from two former students who are now in the first year of law school. The first relayed two “things I wish I knew at SMG about law:”
The first is the fact that jurisdictions have different standards and different tests to apply to the same concept. It seems obvious, [...]
Some law students know why they are there. I corresponded this week with a former student, now a 2L, who has known she wanted to be a lawyer since she was five. (I don’t know how one makes that decision at the age of five but I believe her when she tells me that’s how [...]
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