!Escuchan bien! Is that Spanish you hear in MULS hallways?

This week MULS is hosting a delegation of students and faculty from Alberto Hurtado University School of Law , Chile’s only Jesuit law school located in the capital of Santiago (Five students will participate in a week-long program, conducted in Spanish, to gain a first-hand look at the U.S. legal system as their country implements significant legal reforms. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 14:31:57

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Date: 2008-11-04 08:03:23

Pls Hndle Thx: Bitter Like Me

Ed. note : Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com . ATL - I'm a 1L at a T14 law school in the midwest. I did my undergrad at the same school, but took a year off before I matriculated to law school. Some of my college friends are now 2Ls. It's only been a little bit of time since I came back, but over the past year it looks like my former easy-going friends have turned into complete assholes. They've become obsessed about the "status" of our school. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-25 17:20:23

December 2008 - Net Worth Update and Personal Finance Status

Honestly, I’m starting to regret posting my financial numbers online for all to see ... relationships I feel. Just a few days ago my brother asked me to contribute to his law school tuition fund. He’s currently working full time and juggling evening law school classes. His federal [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 02:54:38

…………LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES for cheap labor……………..

“The Starving Law Clerks for only $25/hr “ 310-598-6577 ______________________________________________________________________________ [ ... Law Clerks have either passed the California Bar Exam; or await Bar results • We have authored ... We have successfully challenged State, Federal, and Municipal laws and ordinances with success.  [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 08:01:58

…………LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES for cheap labor……………..

“The Starving Law Clerks for only $25/hr “ 310-598-6577 ______________________________________________________________________________ [ ... have either passed the California Bar Exam; or await Bar results • We have authored ... challenged State, Federal, and Municipal laws and ordinances with success.  the STARVING LAW CLERKS [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 08:00:33

The VC, The Professor, And The Valley Of Death

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @ vwadhwa . Everyone seems to be waiting for the next great discovery which will change the world. But, believe it or not, the next Internet, semiconductor, or breakthrough in MRI technology may already have been discovered. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 20:20:39

Conservatives’ Dinner with Obama

When I heard that the president-elect had dined earlier this week with a number of leading conservatives, ... visiting conservative speakers, ask questions in a civil tone and even amicably greet their Republican ... at the University of Virginia School of Law).  There was much disagreement, but respect for each other’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:18:25

Seeking First Amendment and feminist perspectives on an escort's sentence

« Important new NACDL report critical of modern drug court movement | Main A Stanford Law School graduate was sentenced Monday on a federal tax conviction related to running a high-priced call girl service, punishment that includes restrictions on her ability to keep advertising as an escort while she's on probation. During a hearing in San Jose federal court, U.S. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 16:22:42

Jim Sokolove, Stanford, and the “Roadmap to Justice”

TV’s biggest lawyer-advertiser is Boston’s James Sokolove, whose ad budget of $20 million/year makes him a widely recognized figure ( ... august an institution than Stanford Law School (thank you, Prof. Deborah Rhode), It’s bankrolling ... Civil Gideon” idea (a newly invented Constitutional entitlement to taxpayer coverage of lawyers’ fees [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:35:07

Roni Deutch Tax Center on Entrepreneur.com

Elizabeth Wilson of Entrepreneur.com recently interviewed me, and I was ecstatic to see how well the resulting article turned out ... school. In 1991 at the age of 26, with $120,000 in law school debt, Deutch rented a two-bedroom ... business services: credit card restoration, bookkeeping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:58:00

Going Down the Path of Consumer Debt - Again

At creditslips.org, Bob Lawless raises the most reasonable question I’ve seen so far about Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s decision to shift the ... s the question from Lawless, an expert on credit and bankruptcy at the University of Illinois College of Law school: Why? After two decades in which consumers piled debt on their credit cards without [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 13:52:32

Media & Politics

Permanent link to MTA daily media newsMatt DaviesObama’s Guantanamo Appeasement Plan (by Marjorie Cohn, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National Lawyers Guild, writing at Truthdig) Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantanamo within one year. The Republicans, led by Sens. [more...]

Date: 2009-05-26 20:09:36

Whitey Bulger Movie

My Brush with the Mob Whitey Bulger Gonna Get Himself a Movie / Dustin Rowles No lie: This story is 100 percent true. Back in law school, I picked up a part-time job during my second year with an attorney outside of Boston -- he'd been working pro-bono on a case for 20 years, and put me to researching it. I think [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:16:05

innovation = returning to the way things were before the Great Depression

Abolishing the third year of law school is an interesting idea. But, you know what would really save some time and money? ... propose such a thing? A debt-ridden attorney? A bitter law student? No, this tantalizing idea came ... that before the Great Depression there were no bar exams or law degree requirements. Attorneys simply posted [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:00:07

Daily Links: 5k5k Edition

From time-to-time, I like to highlight GRS-reader projects. Chett wrote to share an idea he’s trying to get off the ground ... a 5,000-meter (3.1-mile) run and saving $5,000 (or paying off $5,000 in debt). As you know, I think ... in Oregon may resurrect mandatory personal finance education. When I was in school, state law [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 00:30:30

ABA Tax Section Awards

The ABA Tax Section yesterday announced the winners of its two inaugural Public Service Tax Fellowships (blogged here): Laura Newland (J.D ... and benefits, as well as law school debt assistance, by means of charitable contributions ... residents in the area of affordable housing (tax lien foreclosure), debt forgiveness, bankruptcy matters [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 14:01:08

Clinton Writes-Off

Bloomberg:  Clinton Writes Off $13.2 Million Loan to Campaign, by Jonathan D. Salant: Hillary Clinton formally wrote off the $13 ... Biersack said. Nor can she deduct the money as a bad debt or as a job-hunting expense because political ... of Cincinnati law school and editor of TaxProf Blog. For prior TaxProf Blog coverage, see Romney Writes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 20:21:01

“Mr. President Elect, have fun this week and next…but don’t forget the average American!”

President Elect Obama dined with the conservative elite last night…read below and post your thought... Yes, I know I have had enormous advantages in my life — including the biggest one: my parents could pay for my education (I did use student loans for law school at Georgetown but back then it meant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:46:21

Report: College Students, Professors Getting Raw Deal

Everyone knows that college is getting more expensive, ... and international students, or from professional schools such as business, law and engineering where full-cost pricing is increasingly common. Institutions are also turning to user fees to fund many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:46:59

Disenfranchisement Reform: Lawmakers Move Toward Expanding Voting Rights in 2009

Cross-Posted at Project Vote's Voting Matter's Blog Weekly Voting Rights News Update by Erin Ferns The 2008 presidential election was an ... , and catch the attention of researchers and advocates alike” in 2008, according to criminal justice public ... for Justice at NYU School of Law, a leading advocate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:18:43

everyone likes to ask edley what to do. even the uc.

Boalt’s Dean Chris Edley has taken on a new job. No, he’s not leaving Berkeley’s law school, but he does seem to have a busy year ahead, having been appointed “special adviser” to Mark Yudof, president of the UC system. An email announcement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:11:10

Media & Politics (one section only today)

Media & Politics (one section only today) 06-Jan-09 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Quote of the Day (Political Wire) ... is a Professor of Law at Indiana University, a former OLC official in the Clinton administration (as well as a former ACLU counsel), and a graduate of Yale Law School.  She’s become a true expert on executive [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 18:43:24

Attention Denver 3Ls: Maybe You Can Help Folsom Help Zazi!

Arthur Folsom, the solo practitioner in Denver who's spearheading the defense of accused terrorist mastermind Najibullah Zazi, is hiring an intern. He placed an ad with the University of Denver Law School's career development center last week. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 16:37:28

A "Key" Tactic to Undermine Consumer Protections

Yesterday at Higher Ed Watch, we wrote about how Key Bank has partnered with dozens of unlicensed and unaccredited trade schools to provide ... to regulations carrying out the law, the FTC said that by holding loan providers accountable ... in the private loan promissory notes it provides students [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:00:00

Think-tank Roundup 18 - 18th July 2008

Think-tank Roundup 18 - 18th July 2008 From the desk of cassilis ·July 18, 2008 at 12:35 pm · Filed under All WW, Blog Roundups, Media, Politics, ... education – ‘Featuring a foreword from Schools Minister Andrew Adonis, this collection brings together ... Law in the Making: Influence and Change in the Legislative Process”. The report “analyses [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 11:35:53

Commodore Hays hits iceberg Oops. An NLR insider had told me last week that Ultimate Dictator Pat Hays would persuade the NLR School District ... was "procedurally defective in terms of notice and disclosure” and added that the law said 15 days notice [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 01:31:37

Obama’s school policies called ‘Bush III’

In a speech on reauthorizing No Child Left Behind , Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave the law “credit for exposing achievement gaps, and for requiring that we measure our efforts to improve education by looking at outcomes, rather than inputs.” Duncan called for developing better tests to monitor progress and more focus on student growth. But the biggest problem with NCLB is that it doesn’t encourage high learning standards. In fact, it inadvertently encourages states to lower them. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 21:39:06

gossip girl free vidoe

gossip girl free vidoe Privileged students at an exclusive Manhattan prep school keep up on local gossip from a secretive blogger who gets the ... ). She also made a guest appearance in the TV Series Law & Order, where she played three different roles ... appearances Law & Order “Switch” (1995) as Megan Nelson/Bobby/Nancy “Merger” (1999) as Mercedes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:47:11

This week’s think-tank roundup..

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks ... – ‘Featuring a foreword from Schools Minister Andrew Adonis, this collection brings together ... policy after 9/11’ edited by Alan Johnson. The Hansard Society have published a report called “Law [more...]

Date: 2008-07-19 07:53:26

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