| Midlevel lawyers still unhappy | By A.S. Pradhan |
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Most people would be happy to have a job in this economy. The threat of outsourcing hitting all white-collar jobs, these people would be happy earning over 100K or at least over 80K a year. But seems like social prestige and good pay are not enough for middle level lawyers working in Biglaw firms, o... |
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| Summer associate positions give out differing pictures | By A.S. Pradhan |
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Reports about the availability of summer associate positions for law school students suggest that those students who are in the Top 14 law schools will have some difficulty in landing internships at Biglaw firms. But for students from middle-tier law schools, even getting paying internships at small... |
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| More law schools – for better or worse | By A.S. Pradhan |
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Aspiring lawyers have three more law schools to choose from now. The UMass law school is having its orientation sessions for its inaugural law students this week, with classes starting on August 23. Liberty University School of Law has been granted full accreditation by the ABA. Liberty is a p... |
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| After undergraduation, what? | A.S. Pradhan |
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Most students turn to law school directly after getting their undergraduate degrees. Most of these have majored in political science or less frequently English. So for them, law school seems like a logical conclusion. But is law school right after graduation the right thing to do?Nowadays, even stud... |
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| Is legal processing outsourcing a growing threat ? | A.S. Pradhan |
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On August 4, New York Times carried a story on how American legal professionals are moving to India to set up and work in Indian legal outsourcing companies. The main thrust of the article was that junior associates are the ones who are going to lose out with this trend. A GE counsel interviewed eve... |
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| New law graduates and realistic salaries| A.S. Pradhan |
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The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) last week released a released a report in which it emphasized once again the difference between the starting average salary and the salary amount that most new graduates get paid. It noted that the average goes up because some firms do offer $1... |
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| Law school after graduation | A.S. Pradhan |
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Most students turn to law school directly after getting their undergraduate degrees. Most of these have majored in political science or less frequently English. So for them, law school seems like a logical conclusion. But is law school right after graduation the right thing to do?Nowadays, even stud... |
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| Law school still a good investment|| A.S. Pradhan |
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There are various blogs for law students, most of which now seem to be in schadenfreude mode. The most famous of these is Above the Law, but even that site recently carried an article called “In Defense of Going to Law School”, in which it kind of offered an apology for their usual hyper... |
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| Law schools paying firms to hire students | A.S. Pradhan |
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By now most law students must have heard about Duke’s “Bridge to Practice” program and SMU’s “Test Drive” program. Duke’s program has gotten more media attention and in both the programs the schools are paying law firms to hire their non-employable unemploye... |
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| Grade Inflation in Law Schools | A.S. Pradhan |
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Grade inflation is not just for high schools and undergraduates anymore. It has reached even law schools. New York Times carried an article last week about how at least ten law schools have done “grade reform” aka grade inflation recently to help their graduates find better jobs (probabl... |
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