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Law schools are preparing for new bar exam
Big changes are on the horizon for bar exams in 2026.
3 top law schools quit US News rankings over equity concerns
The University of California, Berkeley's law school on Thursday joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in pulling out of U.S. News & World Report's rankings over concerns that they punish efforts to attract students from a broad range of backgrounds.
CRITIC’S CORNER: Law schools, lawyers, and dead philosophers
Many law schools have let their students down over the past decade.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Improving law schools: It’s good business
It’s better, but it’s still not really good. What I’m talking about is the situation of law schools.
Law grads find paying off debt not as easy as they had hoped
When Karen Bauer was in law school, she gave a presentation called “Don’t Freak Out About Your Law School Loans.”
Freshman year 2.0: Year 1 in the real world
The nightmare is finally over. You know the one: It's the first day of law-school exams, and you realize that not only have you have slept through your alarm, you have also forgotten to attend class — throughout the entire semester. You wake up as you burst into the exam room, where your classmates have just finished typing their final answers. You have failed. You'll never be an attorney.
More opportunities for recent grads, but fewer get jobs
Despite more job opportunities for new law school graduates, the percentage of law school grads who get jobs out of college fell for the sixth straight year, according to a study released this month.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Ageism is not the answer
It has become a maxim that there are too many lawyers and that there is ongoing softness in demand for legal services.
LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Rethinking legal education
It’s no secret that law school does little to prepare young lawyers for practice realities in any size law firm. And now it has become increasingly clear that reality is catching up to law schools.
BLAWG LOG: Grossman on exam preparation advice; Althouse on Walker, free speech
If my first year of law school was any indication, first year law students are looking ahead to final exams during the coming weeks with some trepidation.
Changing practice requires careful thought, planning
There are at least three times in one’s career when a lawyer must choose a practice area: before graduation from law school; when the chosen practice area becomes overcrowded or business dries up; and when the practice area is no longer interesting.
Parts of Marquette’s Sensenbrenner Hall may face demo
Marquette University’s Sensenbrenner Hall used to be crammed with eager law students, hustling up and down the four flights of stairs to attend classes. But for the past year, the building has sat quiet and mostly empty on the corner of 11th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee. Now, Marquette is trying to decide what […]
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- Reinhart named the 2024 Wisconsin law firm of the year by benchmark litigation
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- Wisconsin man pleads not guilty to neglect in disappearance of boy
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