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Anxious About Law School Final Exams? Relax
Read the full article at www.law.com Final exams. I know that many of you first-year law students are experiencing intense anxiety over your first round of final exams. Though I am now a law professor, I was once a law student, too. The compressed horror of years...
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Media Education Is Crucial to Preparing Young Attorneys to Speak on the Record
Read the full article at www.natlawreview.com KnowIt Conference For Creators & Protectors of Intellectual Property Registration Open! May 11-14 Las Vegas Last month, a photojournalist for The Daily Northwestern , Northwestern University’s campus newspaper,...
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How Professors Help Rip Off Students
Read the full article at www.nytimes.com Getty ImagesAs the semester ends, instructors at universities and community colleges around the country will begin placing their orders for next year’s textbooks. But not all professors will pay enough attention to something...
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Lawtech and what it means for future lawyers
Read the full article at www.legalcheek.com Experts from across the City share their insights Left to right: Russell Johnstone, Michael O’Donoghue, Mark Marfé, Shantanu Majumdar, Tara Waters and Jill Howell-Williams At Legal Cheek’s latest careers event in partnership...
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Attorneys Are Fun People To Be Around
Read the full article at abovethelaw.com Last night was the Above the Law holiday party, and if you didn’t make it, you definitely missed out! The event is always an amazing time, since it is great to meet individuals from all across the legal profession and kick back...
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Author discusses his new book on problems with legal education.
Read the full article at www.insidehighered.com The decade after 2008 was not a good one for law schools. Applications and enrollment fell. Some closed. This is the subject of Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond (NYU Press). But the author...
read moreThe Michael Corkery QC Criminal Law Moot 2019
Read the full article at blog.lawbore.net On Saturday 7th December, Zahra Ahmed and Kofi Otu (students on the GDL at City Law School and relative newcomers to mooting) competed in the inaugral Michael Corkery QC Criminal Law Moot , run by 5 Paper Buildings. Here’s the...
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How I Ditched Debt: ‘Happiness Journey’ Fueled Payoff
Read the full article at www.nerdwallet.com At NerdWallet, we strive to help you make financial decisions with confidence. To do this, many or all of the products featured here are from our partners. However, this doesn’t influence our evaluations. Our opinions are...
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International student scholarships: Think Big about Global Justice and apply today
Read the full article at www.bristol.ac.uk Students who have applied to start a full-time taught undergraduate or postgraduate programme in September 2020 - and who are classed as overseas students for fee purposes - are now eligible for the Law School’s Think Big...
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Christopher Hennessy, ’91, goes the distance to serve others
Read the full article at www.niutoday.info Christopher Hennessy is a partner at Cozen O’Connor. He earned his degree in communications from NIU in 1991. “In the most simplistic and honest way, I liked arguing,” he recalled with a laugh. “Before I ever went to college,...
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Young Lawyers, Student Debt and the Path Not Taken
Read the full article at www.law.com Credit: Sira Anamwong/Shutterstock.com Although reliable recent data is somewhat difficult to find, according to the American Bar Association, the average law school student graduated with between $84,600 and $122,158 in student...
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Both the End and the Beginning of a Long Road Introducing WPDN’s Newest Associate, Zara Mason
Read the full article at oilcity.news Finally, as Zara Mason stood in front of the justices, her peers and, most importantly, her family to take her oath as a newly-appointed lawyer in the state of Wyoming, she thought a lot about the roads that she traveled to get to...
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