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 “A Student Loan Repayment Toolbox” which you can access by clicking here. One of the programs he features and which [...]

  29 October 2010 — There is an excellent piece in Slate on the issue that demand for lawyers has fallen off a cliff, both due to the short-term crisis of the recession and long-term changes to the industry, and is only starting to rebound. The lawyers that do have jobs are making less than they [...]

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 legion of Scambloggers who want to keep you from going to law school.  And they profiled and quoted none other but St. Johns University School [...]

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 applicants will receive $6,000 in loan repayment assistance in exchange for a three-year service commitment and may receive a lifetime maximum of $40,000 if [...]

The average law student who graduated from a private university in 2008 borrowed more than $91,500 on the way to earning that degree, and in 2009 the figure was more than $100,000, according to the nonprofit Equal Justice Works.  Combine that with leftover undergraduate debt and the shrinking job market, and you realize the immense [...]

  There are a large number of law students who are members of The Posse List, as well non-law students who follow our articles and have written to us about attending law school. So we thought we’d post an item from The Adjunct Law Prof Blog which has linked to a post by Hannah Watson of Onlinecourses.org [...]