Law Students

Fewer Women Apply to Law School

Law schools are seeing fewer women applicants and a dropping proportion of women students. The percentage of women in law school has dropped from 49 percent in 2002 to 46.9 percent today, the National Law Journal reports, citing ABA figures. The drop comes as both sexes are applying to law…

Oct 2, 2007 12:51 PM CDT

Law Firms Try YouTube: ‘Hostage Videos’

Law firms have discovered YouTube, and reportedly see the social networking site as a potential summer associate recruiting tool. Their goal: to appear young and hip, in order to appeal to those who are. The reality for a number of firms: they’re not quite there yet, reports the International Herald…

Sep 27, 2007 10:57 PM CDT

St. John’s Law Students Part of Lockdown

A three-hour lockdown at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., yesterday extended to law students after a man walked onto campus wearing a Halloween mask and toting a rifle in his backpack. Security officers tackled the man, identified as 22-year-old Omesh Hiraman, ABC’s 7online reports. Hiraman’s father said his son…

Sep 27, 2007 12:47 PM CDT

Law Grad Tuition Debt Relief Ahead

Law grads struggling to pay big school debts while working in low-wage or public service job can take heart. President Bush is expected to sign a bill that gives grads in public service jobs a chance to have their student loans forgiven and some others to opt for a low-repayment…

Sep 25, 2007 12:42 PM CDT

Law School Secret: Bad Job Market

The job market is tough for many recent law grads, who are pointing their fingers at law schools for failing to warn them about their dim prospects. Top pay for new associates at the big law firms is $160,000, but most beginning lawyers make far less at the same time…

Sep 24, 2007 11:04 AM CDT

Law Job Interview First: Cushy Ski-Lodge Weekend

Law students interviewing at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges will meet their potential bosses during an all-expenses paid weekend vacation at an upscale ski lodge. About 40 students will travel to the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah, this October where they will meet with firm leaders, including…

Sep 20, 2007 1:05 PM CDT

Law Prof: CA Bar Swayed by Liberals

A UCLA law professor seeking more information about bar passage rates for minority law students is planning his next move after the State Bar of California turned down his request for historical data. The Committee of Bar Examiners refused to release the information, saying test takers provided it in the…

Sep 19, 2007 12:31 PM CDT

Master’s Degrees = More Money?

Despite their hefty price tag, master’s degrees are increasingly popular with both the students who earn them and the institutions that offer them, and for essentially the same reason: money. Institutions that offer these graduate degrees amp up their tuition revenue, reports the New York Times. Meanwhile, students expect to…

Sep 13, 2007 10:12 PM CDT

Law Grad Acquitted, Relies on Polygraph

A judge’s decision to admit the results of a polygraph exam may have helped a law school graduate win acquittal Monday in an Ohio sexual battery case. Sahil Sharma had been charged for a sexual encounter with a woman after a wedding they attended in Cuyahoga Falls, the Cleveland Plain…

Sep 5, 2007 2:54 PM CDT

Sideshow ‘Geek’ Seeks Law Degree

Corrected: As classes begin today at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., it appears likely that one incoming student will stand out just a bit from the other first-years. Eduardo Arrocha, 45, otherwise known as “Eak the Geek,” a self-described sideshow freak, has decided it’s time for a…

Sep 4, 2007 7:54 PM CDT

Law Grad Wins Case, Keeps on Truckin’

A would-be lawyer with a green pickup has succeeded in overturning a Florida city ordinance that barred him from parking overnight in residential areas. Lowell Kuvin, who is waiting for bar exam results after graduating from Miami’s University of St. Thomas School of Law, won his case last week before…

Aug 31, 2007 2:40 PM CDT

Law Firm Grants Scholarship—and Summer Job

A major international law firm that started out in Florida has endowed a scholarship at one of the state’s law schools that not only pays a second-year student’s tuition but guarantees him or her a summer job. Holland & Knight hopes that its law school scholarship at historically African-American Florida…

Aug 24, 2007 8:09 PM CDT

Promise to Pay for Law School is Enforceable

A Minnesota man who promised to pay for a neighbor to attend law school must ante up, a state appeals court has ruled. Walter Fields is required to honor his admitted promise and pay for Marjorie Conrad’s legal education, ruled the Minnesota Court of Appeals, upholding an $87,000 trial court…

Aug 23, 2007 10:36 PM CDT

Man Who Killed Wife Failed Bar 4 Times

After Clifton Eames failed the Texas bar exam four times, he helped persuade the state supreme court to adopt a more flexible rule last year about how many times applicants could take the test. By this point, however, his life was spiraling downward. Monday afternoon, he allegedly murdered his wife…

Aug 22, 2007 8:41 PM CDT

Blogging for Success

Blogging was the ticket to success for Harvard University law student Jeremy Blachman. After interviewing for work as a summer associate, he created an online character called Anonymous Lawyer that was based on the partners he had met. Readers believed the writer who wrote about his e-mail obsession and his…

Aug 13, 2007 4:01 PM CDT