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Relieving 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

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A Case of Supply v. Demand: Law schools are manufacturing more lawyers than America needs

  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

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New 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

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On 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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ABA Proposes Law Student Loan Relief

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

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Options for Managing Law School Student Loan Debt

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

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100 Blog Posts About Going To Law School

  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

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Size of student loans prevent lawyer’s admission to NY bar

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

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