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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Lawyers is pleased to host this presentation on the most significant law affecting public service in a generation: the College Cost Reduction and [...]
Student loan debt is up and job expectations are down according to a year-end, informal snapshot of several sources. The online ABA Journal is reporting that almost a third of all law students expect to graduate with more than $120k in loan debt. Over at Above the Law, editor Elie Mystal describes, in a column called [...]
11 November 2009 The American Bar Association is lobbying the Obama administration and Congress to extend relief to recent law school graduates who went into debt to finance their legal educations but haven’t been able to find a job because of the recession. The ABA wants the government to let unemployed graduates convert private loans [...]
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 [...]
All his life, Robert Bowman wanted to be a lawyer. He overcame a troubled childhood, a tragic accident that nearly cost him a leg and a debilitating Jet Ski collision. He put himself through community college, worked and borrowed heavily to help pay for college, graduate school and even law school. He took the New [...]
In addition to the paucity of work out there, many Posse List members are under the crushing burden of student loans. We have followed the reports on various proposals under the stimulus package and other programs to forgive and/or abate student loan debt including discussion of making student loans all or partly dischargeable in bankruptcy. In the [...]
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