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The Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) has recently updated its ABA-LSAC Official Guide search data. Each year, LSAC, in conjunction the American Bar Association (ABA), compiles an Official Guide that reports data collected from all U.S. accredited law programs. According to the ABA’s Standards and Rules of Procedures for Approval of Law Schools, accredited institutions are obligated to report their basic consumer information for public viewing. The facts reported include profiles of the incoming classes, bar passages rates, employment statistics and even details about the program’s curriculum and faculty. For the convenience of prospective law students, LSAC makes the data collected available on its website, and additionally provides a search engine that permits candidates to search for a school according to a . . . → Continue Reading While 1Ls at most law schools across the U.S. take some sort of legal research and writing course during the academic year, Columbia’s 1Ls are required to arrive on campus in mid-August to acquire familiarity with these skills before the start of the Fall term. The three-week pre-term Legal Methods course meets twice each day for 90 minutes, for a total of fifteen hours per week for the entirety of Columbia’s long orientation. During class time, veteran professors walk students through the process of critically reading statutes, writing a brief and understanding cases within the context of the development of Anglo-American legal thought. CLS believes that exposure to these basic skills before term begins allows 1Ls . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 9:57 am in
 School: Columbia In addition to offering students the opportunity to pursue a J.D. degree, most law schools also provide various advanced degrees. One of the most popular is the LL.M., a degree geared toward candidates who already possess a J.D., or their home country’s equivalent. A full-time LL.M. program is generally a year long, and requires that students submit a substantial piece of writing, composed using outside research and containing a sustained argument related to the field of law, in order to graduate and receive a degree. Various LL.M. programs offer their students different opportunities in terms of areas of specialization, location and class size. Stanford, for instance, asks students to pursue one of two specializations: Corporate Governance & Practice or Law, . . . → Continue Reading Although the summertime offers prospective law students an ideal opportunity to begin preparing for the upcoming application season, the real action does not truly pick up until the fall months when the admissions committees begin accepting applications and official school visits begin. While prospective are studying for and taking the LSAT, narrowing down target programs and drafting personal statements behind the scenes, another group of people are currently in high-gear. As discussed in a recent post from Above the Law, transfer students use the summertime to make final decisions about the program to which they’ll transfer in the fall – if they decide to transfer at all. In the past, it has not been uncommon for law students not initially . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 10:59 am in
General With the full implementation the new academic calendar this fall, Stanford Law School students will finally experience the new overhauled “3D JD” curriculum proposed by dean Larry Kramer in 2006. Pieces of the plan have appeared throughout the SLS curriculum since 2007, though students have not been exposed to the new curriculum as a whole until the fall of 2009. The impetus behind dean Kramer’s decision to revamp the SLS upper-level curriculum – the changes apply only to the 2L and 3Ls years – is his observation that while students learn a lot during the first year, when they are first exposed to blackletter law and are taught to think like lawyers, they are not . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 12:46 pm in
School: Stanford In the past few years, law schools have started devoting significant resources, such as endowed professorships, research center leadership positions and other perks, to wooing top faculty members away from their tenured posts at peer schools. As a result, leading scholars who have been closely associated with one school for the bulk of their career are taking jobs at other schools more frequently than before. Today we’ll take a look at some notable faculty shifts that will go into effect for the upcoming academic year. The most widely discussed has been longtime Stanford scholar Lawrence Lessig’s decision to join Harvard Law School as the faculty director of the . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 10:41 am in
Law School News, School: Berkeley / Boalt, School: Chicago, School: Columbia, School: De Paul, School: Georgetown, School: Harvard, School: New York University, School: Stanford, School: Yeshiva Cardozo In today’s economy, paying back students loans is on the forefront of many recent law school graduates’ minds. The graduating class of 2009 is certainly feeling the effects of the economic downturn. Many of the nation’s large law firms have either decided against hiring new attorneys or have asked their recent hires to defer their start date until fall 2010 or later. Gone are the days of several thousand-dollar signing bonuses. For many graduates, paying back students loans during these economics conditions may seem like an insurmountable task. In an effort to not only aid recent graduates encumbered with debt, but also to promote public interest law careers, Congress has recently passed the College Cost Reduction & Access Act. The . . . → Continue Reading Posted by Clear Admit at 1:53 pm in
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