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Just Below the Law: Odds are high that this may be your future, Class of 2012 grads

06 Jan

If you are not about to graduate from a top 10 national law school (even then, you damn well be pretty high in the class rank), your law school’s placement office staff may not adivse you of this except with…

 

Can Your Dean, Your Law School, Handle the Truth?

15 Dec

Following the example set by Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School has published fairly detailed recent graduate employment data. Yale Law data here, U of Chicago Law data here. ATL’s David Lat would like to know if…

 

Reminder: Keynote Speech for AALL Futures Summit Webcast Live at 1 PM CDT Today

03 Nov

The two-day AALL Futures Summit starts today. Andy Hines, Lecturer and Executive-in-Residence at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Future Studies, will open the Futures Summit with a keynote address and a Q &A session. His keynote speech will…

 

Advice on Advice Received from Top Law School Profs by Students Trying to Enter the Teaching Market

17 Sep

“A wildly disproportionate percentage of law school faculty graduate from a very few top law schools, especially Harvard and Yale. Not surprisingly, graduates of these schools turn to their mentors and references for advice on how to navigate the teaching…

 

A Bit More on Senator Grassley And The ABA

17 Aug

I wrote yesterday about the most recent letter Senator Charles Grassley sent to the ABA seeking additional information about the organization’s oversight of law schools in regard to mounting graduate debt and poor job prospects. See my post Grassley to…

 

A Bit More on Senator Grassley And The ABA

17 Aug

I wrote yesterday about the most recent letter Senator Charles Grassley sent to the ABA seeking additional information about the organization’s oversight of law schools in regard to mounting graduate debt and poor job prospects. See my post Grassley to…

 

Budget Control Act Eliminates Subsidized Interest Loans for Graduate Students

04 Aug

The CBO estimates that the Budget Control Act of 2011 will save approximately $26.3 billion over 2012-2021 by eliminating the federal government’s subsidized graduate student loan program: Student Loans. As required under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, most…