Craft a Successful Application to a Top Law School - Law Admissions Lowdown. Give yourself plenty of time to study for the LSAT and prepare your law school application.
All law school applicants consider myriad factors when selecting schools to which they will apply. But barring financial hurdles, a top 14 law school is appealing to the majority of applicants because of the enormous variety of standing opportunities that such an education provides. These are institutions at which students will certainly obtain an astounding education and will have job opportunities nationally after graduation. Of course, you should take other factors beyond rank into consideration, such as culture, class sizes and available activities, but if you find that a T14 law school has everything you are looking for, see the tips below to increase your chances of gaining acceptance during the competitive application process that will begin in a month.
[See the top law schools in photos.] Bar Exam Prep, Evening Student Style. Happy New Year, faithful reader!
My apologies for not posting in December, but this was the first holiday season in about 9 years that I didn't have schoolwork on my mind in some way, so I took advantage of the full opportunity, and actually enjoyed my holidays for once! If you're coming up on graduating law school (or any school for that matter), you will soon appreciate how big of a deal that is. So this post is dedicated to sharing my bar study experiences so that you will be able to have a stress-free holiday very soon! As I mentioned in an earlier post, studying for bar exams while working is not easy, and I don't recommend it. Is the Future Bleak for 2012 Law School Grads? As dismal as this number may seem (59.8%), it is actually higher than the national rate of 56.2% A New York Law Journal article talks about the bleak future of 2012 New York State law school graduates.
According to the article, only six in ten of the 4,967 graduates (coming for 15 New York law schools) landed full-time, permanent employment. As dismal as this number may seem (59.8%), it is actually higher than the national rate of 56.2%, and an improvement over the previous year’s rate of 57.2%. Here are some highlights from the NY Law Journal article: • Only six U.S. schools placed more than 90% of their last graduating class in full-time positions.
Morning Docket: 03.25.13. ‘You may take our false hopes for employment, but you will never take our right to sue!’
* Many have compared the possible outcome of the gay marriage cases to the Roe v. Wade decision, saying that constitutionalizing the right to gay marriage will create a similar culture war. Relax, bro, your bigotry is showing. Law Schools’ Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut. Heat is on for law school test. Help Pick the Legal Novel of the Year; Vote for One of Three Harper Lee Prize Finalists.
Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction Poll: Which of these books should win the 2012 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction?
This poll ended on Sun, July 08, 2012 - 11:59:17. Results Murder One by Robert Dugoni176695 votes (50.38%) The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly151700 votes (43.25%) Breach of Trust by David Ellis22362 votes (6.38%) Total Votes: 350757 After reviewing some 40 submissions, judges have selected three finalists for the 2012 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Those up for the prize this year are: Michael Connelly, author of The Fifth Witness; Robert Dugoni for his book Murder One; and David Ellis for Breach of Trust. This is the 2nd Annual Harper Lee Prize, which is sponsored by the ABA Journal and the University of Alabama Law School.
This year's prize will be chosen by the 2012 Harper Lee Prize Selection Committee, composed of: • New York Times best-selling novelist Linda Fairstein. • Former U.S. Harvard Law School Loses No. 2 Spot in New Rankings by US News. Law Schools Posted Mar 13, 2012 6:46 AM CDT By Debra Cassens Weiss Yale remains at the top of new law school rankings by U.S.
New & World Report, but Harvard has moved down a notch. Yale has taken the No. 1 spot since 1990, while Harvard was No. 2 since 2007, according to U.S. News. Part-Time Or Full-Time Law School. When considering law school, one of the options you will weigh is whether to pursue the degree on a part-time or full-time basis.
With rising tuition and an uncertain job market, prospective law students may have an incentive to keep working at their current jobs, if they are already employed or, to find a way to finance law school with a job that allows them to attend school at night. But do part-time law students give up something that is vital to their legal education? Head's Up on Bar Applications. Greetings, faithful reader!
If you haven't already been sent a glut of emails from your law school, which I'm sure you have, I wanted to try to condense the things you will need in the next few weeks, because I know how confusing the bar exam application process is. As always, my focus is NY/NJ but some things apply across all jurisdictions. 1. What is the Difference Between an Attorney, Lawyer, Barrister, and Esquire? - mobile wiseGEEK.
Here in Canada, a person must: 1) have a law degree that is recognized by the law society of his/her particular province, 2) pass a bar exam, and 3) work as an articling student (i.e. apprentice) or a judge's clerk for 10 to 12 months, before he/she can be licensed by the law society of his/her particular province as a barrister and solicitor of the superior-level court of his/her particular province.
For example, a person (with a recognized law degree) who articles at a law firm in a city within the Province of Ontario and who passes the bar exams administered by the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) in large Ontario cities such as Toronto and Ottawa, is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and his/her name is listed in the Roll of Solicitors (a very large book) that is kept by LSUC. Regardless, the words "solicitor" and "barrister" are still better words for "lawyer" than "attorney". ABA Committee Approves New Law School Disclosure Requirements.
Posted Jan 17, 2012 5:19 PM CDT By Mark Hansen An ABA committee has approved a proposed new accreditation standard that would greatly expand the amount of graduate placement data law schools must publicly disclose to prospective students.
But it wasn't easy. Committee members got into a protracted and sometimes testy debate Saturday over one provision of the proposed new standard that would require law schools to post school-specific salary information about graduates on their websites. Several committee members questioned the wisdom of such a requirement, which they felt could be misleading. But the provision was eventually approved—along with the rest of the proposed changes—after an effort to delete the school-specific salary requirement from the proposal failed. Several members of the Standards Review Committee voiced support for the Questionnaire Committee's approach, suggesting that the voluntary nature of the salary reporting information would skew the results upward. The LSSSE through the Part-Time Lens. The 2011 Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) was released earlier this month, although I haven't had a chance to really go through the instrument/questions yet.
Their press release stated (in parts relevant to this blog): "Part‐time law students were as engaged as full‐time students in terms of class participation and preparation. They were less likely, however, to take part in important experiential activities, including pro bono work and clinics, which have been empirically linked to higher self‐reported gains in writing and speaking skills and critical and analytical thinking. " I feel like this is something we all already know, but I suppose that's what these surveys are for - confirming or denying. However, the data from the report indicates that part-time students reported the same gains in writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills--those very skills that are "empirically" linked to these skills. Submit an Article - The Student Appeal Law Journal.
The Student Appeal publishes legal articles, editorials, and informational pieces for law students and lawyers. The Student Appeal accepts responses to both articles and op-eds. Please email article submissions and op-eds to the respective e-mails: Life of a Part-Time Law Student. Writing. Journalism in the Age of Data. University - Newark Evening Student Association Homepage.
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