On breaks, I spent time evaluating what I loved most
about my law school experience and the practice of law which ultimately lead to a career in legal education.
There has been a recent debate at this site
about law school graduates, this offers an opportunity to try and understand their perspective a bit more.
Written professionally
about law school from a student's perspective, with emphasis on sharing experiences with fellow and prospective students.
Older professors will remember the lengthy and sometimes bitter debates
about law school legal aid clinics — and whether students should earn academic credit for participating in them.
While this does make you authoritative, your students are probably
terrified about their law school performance, especially if you are teaching first - year students.
As part of our committee's research, we surveyed
alumni about the law school classes and experiences that were most valuable to them in practice.
There, he participated in the review of oncology drugs and began to
think about law school, not for the first time.
Gladwell went on to
talk about the Law School Ranking Game, a tool created by Jeffrey E. Stake at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
I fear that regardless of the outcome of these efforts at curriculum reform this fundamental breakdown will continue and the
complaints about law school education will continue as they have unabated for over 100 years.
Building upon the success of Law Jobs: By The Numbers ™, the institute is developing a new data - fueled tool that will give prospective students access to meaningful, individualized information
about the law school options available to them.
I think friends to study with is a necessity and I am sure I will want people to talk
about law school with non stop when everyone else in my life is gets sick of hearing about it.
The so - called crisis of confidence in legal education is
not about law school fraud; it is about misinformed expectations.
This summer program invited minority undergraduate students to participate in pre-law courses, meet with working attorneys and
learn about the law school application process.
To that end, I've prepared several easy - to - grasp visualizations
about law school applications, debt, employment after graduation, and the current crisis in the legal market.
One
thing about law school that often goes unmentioned is that it's not just a education, it's an indoctrination.
If you are considering biotechnology patent law as a career, talk to as many people as you can: to someone at USPTO about taking the patent examination, to admissions
counselors about your law school options, and to attorneys about their day - to - day work.
As the blog has continued over the course of the academic year, it seems to have gone off on a few tangents, and become less and
less about the law school - related aspects of LSW's life, but, man, can you blame her?
There has been a good amount of debate on Lawyerist and
elsewhere about the law school bubble, and I think some of the arguments about its damage to our industry are well - founded.
«It's not
just about law school academics; part of the equation is the personalities of the people we're hiring, and whether they fit into our culture.
One year ago, Steph Kimbro wrote on
Lawyerist about law schools» efforts to incorporate aspects of elawyering into professional skills instructions:
I have to make more of an effort with our Law Student Issue — I borrowed the title and refrain from Semisonic's «Closing Time» for a
column about law school nostalgia, and had to ask our 20 - something assistant editor to come up a title for an article about summer jobs (he went with «Hot Hot Heat»).