Tag: Legal Education

April 19, 2021

The Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision to prohibit diversity quotas for continuing legal education programs may reverberate beyond the borders of the Sunshine State. In its Thursday order, the state supreme court held that while it understood the objective of the […]

March 24, 2021

Selective opportunities for law students, including law review membership, judicial clerkships and large law firm association positions, are largely based on first-year grades. And the tradition leaves out many “exceptional students,” according to a March 22 working paper that studied […]

November 9, 2016

A New York law firm is taking an alternative approach to on-campus interviews. Herrick Feinstein recently invited about 50 law students to a cocktail party and interviewed them in a process that has similarities to speed dating, Law.com (sub. req.) […]

November 8, 2016

So, young law grad entering private practice, are you confident, on time and diligent? Great! But if you lag in cultivating networks or handling conflicts, don’t worry, you have time. On a day many law students are facing the challenge […]

July 13, 2016

Albany Law School has announced a two-year JD program, which shaves a year’s worth of tuition off the price. The 24-month program is scheduled to start in January 2017, according to the school’s website. It includes two summer terms, and […]

July 6, 2016

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is getting a $15 million donation from Michael R. Klein, who received an LLM from the school. It has been renamed the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, […]

June 23, 2016

The ongoing discussion on the future of legal education all too often misses the opportunities for innovation and re-invention. In its most recent discussion of the topic, for example, the New York Times highlighted the impact of declining applications (down […]

June 23, 2016

Technology companies such as Facebook and Microsoft are hiring law students as summer interns in their legal departments, though the positions aren’t a path to jobs straight out of law school. Pay for the internships ranges from nothing to $7,500 […]

June 22, 2016

The New York Times is taking another look at the value of law school after critics said its story highlighting the struggles of Valparaiso law school grads had ignored some bright spots in the statistics. The latest New York Times […]