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We are shocked, simply shocked!! “Ex-staffer says she was ordered to pad law school’s job numbers”
24 October 2012 – A former assistant career services dean at the Thomas Jefferson Law School has filed a declaration in a class action against the institution in which she acknowledges padding
Continue readingSurprise, surprise, surprise! Bankers Concede to Dreary Student Loan Predictions
19 October 2012– Surprise, surprise, surprise! A majority of US banking experts now concede that student loan debt is a serious problem and predict that a large percentage of students will increasingly
Continue readingThe incestuous relationships between the A.B.A., law schools and the legal profession
18 December 2011 — As we reported a few weeks ago, the A.B.A. has been peppered of late with a number of accusations over its failings, not least of which is that it has not done enough to
Continue readingAs expected, ABA surrenders to law schools on graduate jobs data reporting
5 December 2011 — It was a lovely press release: “The is fully committed to clarity and accuracy of law school placement data. As a result of these changes, future law
Continue readingRelieving student loan debt: the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
26 January 2011 – We have posted a number of stories on the student debt issue which you can read by clicking here. Bill McDonald who writes the L4L blog has also been running a series titled
Continue readingLaw Professor Supports Scambloggers, Calls for Colleagues to “Wake Up to Casualties of Our Enterprise”
There is a very good legal blog brought to our attention by Legal Blog Watch called Balkinization. Lots of great posts on the law and the legal profession. Recently they ran a story on the growing
Continue readingNew Attorney Loan Forgiveness Program
New Loan Repayment Program for Civil Legal Aid Attorneys Apply by August 16 to participate in the U.S. Department of Education’s new Civil Legal Assistance Attorney Student Loan Repayment Program. Successful
Continue readingLaw school debt: should student financial aid be based on a debt to potential earning ratio?
With so much discussion and debate lately about the value and changing economic viability of a law degree, we wonder if a proposed U.S. Department of Education regulation might, or should, be applied
Continue readingThe conflicting economics of “too many lawyers”
There have been a slew of articles and blog posts of late detailing the reasons why going to law school is a bad decision. We thought we’d throw in our two cents. The reasons law school is “bad”
Continue readingOn January 20th: Student Debt Relief-Income-Based Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Student Debt Relief-Income-Based Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness January 20 at 6:00 pm in the offices of Arnold & Porter at 555 12th Street NW Washington, DC The Washington Council of
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