At this point in the year, as you’re practically blowing your nose and wiping your bum with an unmanageable mountain of law school acceptance letters (*fingers crossed*), you enter the hardest part of the application journey: deciding where to go.…
Above The Law recently published a fairly disheartening article analyzing a Yale survey about depression and poor mental health in law school. I first read it shortly after attending a lecture in which the speaker told us that February 1…
With law school enrollment at historic lows, today’s schools are competing harder and harder for a shrinking pool of applicants. Applicants who eventually want jobs. And some schools are trying to entice prospective students with “practice ready” programs. These programs…
With law students in such high demand, it’s a better time than ever to be thinking about scholarships. Everyone knows that law school is expensive, so I’ll go out on a limb and guess that aspiring students would like to…
One of the most important things for you to think about before entering law school is the type of job that you want when exiting law school. You should begin planning your job search before you even sign up for…
The three years of law school are kind of like the three avocados I bought at the supermarket last week. The first was the most important. It turned into all sorts of fun stuff like guacamole and omelet toppings. I…
Many of you reading this post have either recently graduated from college or will be doing so in the coming days and weeks. While you’re probably concerned with arranging enough tickets for family members you barely know to attend your…
People love to tell you how to land that nice, cushy, Big Law job after graduation. Get straight A’s. Go to a top school. Earn a spot on law review. All good advice, even if significantly easier said than done.…
Today on the LSAT blog: a guest post by Law School Expert Ann Levine, the former director of admissions for two ABA-approved law schools and the author of The Law School Admission Game: Play Like an Expert and The Law…
If you’re going to be a 1L this year, it won’t be long before you’re on campus and drowning in a pile of casebooks. Before you decided on a law school, you no doubt read all the literature about the…