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I recently received an interesting question from one of my 2L colleagues: "Do I really want or need to practice law?" Naturally, t...

A few days ago, we posted a story about the relative shortage of practical legal education opportunities at many U.S. law schools, as well ...

Look around your law school campus and you will see the carnage left behind by the financial crisis. Classes of 2009/2010/2011 are left job...

Early in 2009, we noted that the recession has exposed numerous deficiencies in the current legal education system. Accordingly, we argued ...

No longer a gentlemanly cartel? The legal profession is morphing , says Judge Posner at The University of Chicago Law School's commencem...

As a follow-up to Robin's article on entering academia , we received some helpful insight from Dr. Brian Leiter , the John P. Wilson Pro...

From Law.com : According to a monthly jobs report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nation lost 263,000 jobs in Se...

According to Law.com : Think you've got it tough? You could be a student at Harvard Law School, where big firm recruitment is down 20 pe...

Okay, I admit it. I didn't go to any of the "here's how you save money when researching on the client's dime" sessions...