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D.C.’s Finnegan Henderson: “we will reimburse non-lawyer staff members who seek to better themselves by pursuing a law degree. And the better your grades, the more we pay”

  25 April 2013 – Interesting story in the Washington Post a few days ago in case you missed it:  the law firm Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner will reimburse non-lawyer

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December 4th: ABA votes on accreditation of law schools outside the U.S.

30 November 2010 —  As we previously reported (but which we reluctantly have not continually followed) over the summer an ABA committee recommended that the ABA consider the accreditation of

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Law 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

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Law School as an Investment

  14 November 2009 This past Thursday the New York Times profiled a new research paper entitled Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be…Lawyers that said “Law school is a bad investment”. The

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Want to wait out the recession? Hide in law school

The job market for lawyers, hit hard by the recession, seems to reach new lows every day. But that has not done much to discourage the thousands who are lining up to become the next generation of attorneys. In

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