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Trending Now: Crappy Law Schools and Crappy Lawyers

Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. Betsy DeVos, cutest graduate ever, and Michael Cohen. I usually wait until the end of the year to make predictions about the legal profession. Though it’s only May, I already see some ... read more

The Most Influential Lawyers in the World: Attorneys on the Time 100

The bad ... he’s now a political figure, as the 56th and current Governor of New York, he has his lawyerly chops: immediately before assuming the governorship, he served as New York’s attorney general. He earned his J.D. from Albany Law School. read more

EX-LAWYER: I Was Tainted Forever After Getting Laid Off From A Big New York Firm

Even lawyers who snag fancy jobs right out of law school might be doomed. We spoke to one former lawyer who says he managed to break into the world of corporate law only to get shut out completely because of bad luck ... lot less money now, and he has ... read more

What Being a Lawyer is Really Like

Awhile back, I wrote about what law school is really like ... But I would warn any would be lawyer to be really careful that they don’t take a first job that will give them a bad reputation with any possible future employers. My old firm had a policy ... read more

If John Edwards Were To Represent Himself, Would He Have a Fool for a Client?

It now looks like the case could go to trial. Is there any reason Edwards, a successful trial attorney ... bad defense." A 2007 study, the first of its kind, seriously challenged these aphorisms. Professor Erica Hashimoto of the University of Georgia Law ... read more

Now, even lawyers are getting axed

But those careers don't require four years of college plus a degree from a law school ... Koszeg said. "Now, all of the other law firms have been laying off hundreds of lawyers." It has been more than a decade since the market was this bad for lawyers ... read more

Maybe You Shouldn’t Go To Law School Because Of Donald Trump

Reports of an increase in LSAT test-takers and law school applications surprise me. I don’t know whether that’s good news or bad ... it does now. What will you do in your legal career? What will still be operative will be the need for lawyers to ... read more

Being your own lawyer: bad idea. People in Tampa Bay do it anyway.

Richards, a 61-year-old high school graduate with no legal experience ... "and they don’t know what they don’t know." Lawyers agree that representing yourself, especially without any legal experience, is a bad move. "The process within the court ... read more

Religious school fires teacher for getting pregnant out of wedlock, being bad ‘Christian role model’

Samford and her attorney, Colin Walsh, are filing a lawsuit against the school and have already filed a charge of gender and pregnancy discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "It's against the law to fire someone for them ... read more

“You Can Do Anything With a Law Degree”

“Don’t worry,” said my usually sagacious father, “you can do anything with a law degree.” My dad isn’t an attorney. But now I am, and let me assure ... I don’t want to suggest that law school is a bad idea for everyone—many of the attorneys ... read more