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May 09, 2012
Debt it Out: The Politics of Law School Student Loans

The issue of student loans recently came up in Congress as they considered whether or not to delay (or possibly get rid of) a rate increase on student loans from 3.4% to 6.8%. Both sides acted with their trademark maturity. A rate increase when so many students are already struggling to make their minimum payments

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Apr 12, 2012
Handling Law School Debt II: A Conversation

Last week, I gave you some of my own advice about taking on large amounts of debt for law school. This week, I interviewed some acquaintances who are currently working full time as lawyers at Big Law firms to see how the amount of debt they assumed to attend law school is affecting their lives,

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Apr 06, 2012
The Key to Handling Law School Debt: Make it Worth it

There are a lot of studies done in social psychology that analyze the way that we analyze risk. They’re pretty interesting if you’re into that kind of thing; if you’re not, I’ll cut through all the charts and control groups for you. One of the underlying discoveries is that people can’t legitimately conceive of the

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Sep 21, 2010
Law School Debt and the American Dream

I’m currently about 14k in the hole with student loans, which isn’t too bad, as far as such things go. It sucks to have to drop $200 every month, but I’m pretty sure there are about a billion people in China who don’t really give a crap, if you feel me. It’s like a really

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Jan 26, 2010
The Nuts and Bolts of Applying for Law School Loans

Today we will start with a matching game. Three quotes: 1. “Money often costs too much.” 2. “It’s all about the Benjamins, Baby.” 3. “Stop flushing the damn toilet so often, you’re wasting money!” Three speakers: A. My Mom. B. Diddy/P. Diddy/Puff Daddy/Sean Jean “Puffy” Combs. C. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Oct 14, 2009
Law School Loan Forgiveness Program Makes its Way to Berkeley

During the summer, we reported on new legislation regarding law school loan forgiveness that went into effect on July 1st, 2009. We’re happy to see that this rock has made ripples in the law school pond, including UC Berkeley School of Law. Boalt Hall reports that, beginning with the fall 2009/2010 class, it will be

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Aug 04, 2009
Law Firm Salaries

Law Firm Salaries So I have been writing a series of blog entries in which I have been breaking down Logical Reasoning questions from the June 2009 LSAT. However, I am taking a bit of a break to share with you some interesting stats I just stumbled upon. You see, I was recently distracted by

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Jul 10, 2009
Too Much Law School Debt to be a Lawyer?

Okay, so I’m not the first to get to this. Or the second. In fact, it kind of feels like everyone I know or read on the internet has commented on the NYT piece about the guy who was denied admission to the New York bar because he had too much debt. But it’s very

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