Education
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Countdown to LSAT: Last Minute Tips for the Home Stretch
The LSAT is next week! You've prepared...and prepared...and prepared. Now take a moment to relax and get in a...
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Countdown to LSAT: The Essay
The LSAT is only days away. You have all the scored sections down, now it's time to perfect your...
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Countdown to LSAT: Worst Case Scenarios & How to Fix Them
It’s easy to worry about everything going totally wrong when you take the LSAT. Take a break from studying (and...
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Countdown to LSAT: Reading Comprehension
Taking the LSAT is tough, but figuring out the best way to prepare for it shouldn't be. Take a...
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Five Things You Need to Know Before You Take the LSAT Next Month
As the clock ticks down to June 9 — LSAT test day for the next crop of prospective law students —...
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Countdown to LSAT: Logical Reasoning
It’s week two in our quest here at Law Street to help you with the LSAT. This week, let’s...
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Countdown to LSAT: Logic Games Section
Are you in the final stretch leading to the June LSAT? Well first of all — we feel your pain....
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The Art of Negotiating Law School Scholarships
What do income tax, credit card fees, salaries, and cars have in common? They’re all negotiable, of course. As...
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The DOs and DON’Ts of Mastering the LSAT
In a couple of months thousands of college students and recent graduates around the country will take the June LSAT...
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7 Tips for a Successful Law School Visit
Four days. For most law schools, April 15th is the assigned date for matriculating law students to fork over...
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Rankings Aren’t Enough: 5 Important Factors to Choose the Right Law School
For anyone going to law school in the fall, that April 15 matriculation date is quickly approaching. As a senior...
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Law Firms Take Note: Law Reviews Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up to Be
Somehow, I only recently encountered Adam Liptak’s scornful treatise of American law reviews in the New York Times (and,...
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Are Law Schools to Blame for Graduates’ Struggles?
I spent much of this past holiday season mulling over a sob story about a JD who got screwed...
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Law School and the Unexamined Life
Shame on me. I only just stumbled upon the paper published in the Journal of Legal Education by University...
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Applying to Law School: This is How You Do It
Remember the advice I always give younger friends and acquaintances of mine about whether they should go to law...
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Law School Classes and Their Discontents
Leave it to an actual lawyer to give decent advice to young people thinking of applying to law school....
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Why Constitutional Interpretation Matters
My most recent assignment at my current think-tank internship was to write a report on the 2008 book,The Execution...
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So What if Law School is a Good Financial Deal After All?
Anyone who’s nerdy enough about legal issues to read this blog has probably heard of a paper published last...
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So What If Law Schools Can’t Produce “Practice-Ready” Graduates?
Seeing as how I’ve already argued that law schools should put more emphasis on teaching law students how to...
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We Need to Educate Non-Lawyers in the Law, Too
This morning, I opened up my Facebook account only to be swamped by a flood of bar-exam-passage-celebrating statuses from...
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Should Law School Be More Like Trade School?
About four years ago, one of the professors who gave me recommendations for my applications to law school described...
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Law School Daze
As luck would have it, the nonprofit work I’ve done since graduating from law school last spring has situated...
