If you are — or will be — paying for law school with student loans, keep reading for an update about the new federal student loan law. On March 30, 2010, President Obama signed into law a final version of the new student loan law, The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. An earlier version of the law, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 (SAFRA) was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in…
Do you dream about heading up a big U.S. company? Consider law school. Yes, law school. According to an article titled CEO, Esq., in the May 2010 issue of ABA Journal Magazine, "business leaders and corporate headhunters agree that the JD is once again an alternative to the MBA as the degree of choice for CEO candidates, and that the trend is very likely to increase over the next decade." Just when you thought Law Firm Land…
Atlas LSAT posted Logic Game Challenge #25 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!): Track and Field Challenge The coach of a track-and-field team will select a team of at least five and at most six athletes from a group of nine athletes. The athletes consist of one male sprinter, two female sprinters, three male distance runners and three female distance runners.…
Much is said about them, some good, some pretty bad. But it seems inevitable that law school rankings will continue to be a source of information for those evaluating law schools. If you’re wondering about all the different lists out there that rank law schools, you’ll want to check out our new show, Law School Rankings: What Do the Numbers Mean? Whether rankings really say anything about the quality of legal education is an open question, but the fact…
We’ve posted about the jump in law school applications this year and also in the record number of students taking the LSAT. These increases may seem counterintuitive, given the beating the legal job market has taken over the past couple of years. Nationally, big law firms have deferred new hires, cut pay and laid off associates and even partners. Not being able to find a job can be tough for a newly minted law grads, but a new study…
Are you a current law student who is suddenly horrified by the prospect of becoming an attorney? Are you a prospective law student with designs on a career in business? Would you get an MBA but for the lack of work experience so therefore you are going to get a JD instead? Are you interested in a JD/MBA? If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, then you probably need to do your homework on management…
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…