Yearly Archives: 2010

According to an April 15, 2010 post on the U.S. News & World Report website, “Part-time J.D. law programs play a vital role in legal education. According to the American Bar Association, in fall 2008 about 16 percent of all J.D. students were enrolled part time. For many working adults, attending part time is the only way they can afford to go to law school and meet their other commitments. Fewer than half of all law schools have part-time programs,…

Law School Rankings. Pretty to hard to ignore, especially this time of year. U.S. News & World Report just published the new 2011 law school rankings, and while there’s a few schools within the Top 14 that showed a bit of movement (for example, NYU and Chicago flipped positions at #5 and #6; UC-Berkeley down a spot, Penn up one spot), much remains the same within this group. Yale holds it’s #1 ranking and the Top 14 remain the Top…

Atlas LSAT posted Logic Game Challenge #24 and they invite our listeners to join in the chance to Win $200 off any LSAT Course or any Atlas LSAT Strategy Guide (your choice!): Poetry “Groomer’s Challenge” The Pampered Pets Grooming Salon has a very busy day ahead. There are three groomers – Lisa, Mario, and Nancy – scheduled to work, and the salon has 1-hour appointment slots available for each groomer at 8, 9 and 10 am. Seven animals have appointments…

With all the attention and media coverage drawn by the recent passage of health care legislation, it was easy to miss the significant overhaul to the way student loans are administered. The provisions that will change the way students can pay for higher education were tucked inside the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which President Obama signed into law on March 30, 2010. Although President Obama called it “one of the most significant investments in higher…

Many answer choices on the LSAT are written to be enticing. Some answers will be blatantly wrong, but most will only be slightly wrong. That’s why you have to pay close attention to passage wording in Reading Comp and Logical Reasoning. Both sections make you read huge chunks of text closely but quickly, so when you’re scanning the questions for a passage the words start to run together. Take this snippet, from a very scientific passage about cats: Traditionally, cats have been…

We’re working on an upcoming podcast covering this topic. Why attend law school part-time? With law school tuition on the rise, and an uncertain job market, many working professionals just can’t afford to walk away from their careers to pursue their law degree. For these folks, a part-time law school program makes the most sense. Basic financial reasons may also propel others to seek a program that is less expensive in an immediate sense as tuition costs…

Atlas LSAT posted Logic Games Challenge #23 and they invite our listeners to join in: Old Blue Eyes Seven singers—Hiroshi, Jordan, Kirkwood, Lewin, Marin, Olin, and Pan—will audition for the lead singer role in a Frank Sinatra cover band. The auditions will take place one at a time, and no other singers will audition for the role. The order of the auditions must conform to the following rules: • Exactly two auditions will take place between Jordan’s audition and…

There's been a lot of discussion lately about the changes taking place in Law Firm Land (for purposes of this discussion, including Big Law as well as mid-size and smaller law firms) and in legal education. Our earlier posts have addressed some of these discussions in the context of proposed changes to law firm recruitment at law schools, proposed changes to legal education and the effects of clients needs on demand for legal services from law firms.…

Attitude questions — you know, those mildly irritating ones that pretty much ask you how the author feels about something — may be the trickiest questions on the Reading Comp section of the test. If only those authors would just come out and say how they felt about the topic (I think that Yeats’ poetry is crap)! Luckily for us, these attitudes do come across loud and clear, as long as you know what types of language to look for. Here are…

One sound bite I use a lot when counseling prospective law students is to “put the end at the beginning.” Before thinking about program specialties and clinical opportunities and academic profiles and acceptances rates and anything else that might determine your selection of law schools to which you will apply, think about the end game. Picture graduating, taking the bar, and going off to work. Seriously, do it, even if it feels weird. The reason it might…