Yesterday Cook County Circuit Court Judge Neil Cohen granted DePaul's motion to dismiss a class action suit brought by several DePaul graduates, who enrolled at the law school between 2003 and 2008, incurred massive student loan debt (one now has an outstanding balance of more...
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Rutgers-Camden is playing the role of Secretariat at the Belmont in this year's Most Preposterous Law School derby: When New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews used campaign funds to pay for.
Student loans aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy except under extraordinary circumstances. This unjust, inefficient, and socially destructive exception to the bankruptcy laws was extracted from Congress by shills for the financial.
More than a week ago I pointed out that the reported debt numbers for Rutgers-Camden law graduates didn't appear to make any sense. Within a few hours, with the help of internet crowd-sourcing, it became clear what had happened: Rutgers-Camden was reporting only the law...
People interested in the academic paper version of my law school critique can download it from SSRN. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have been engaged for the lead roles in.
Friday a federal judge ruled that because "the [employment and salary] statistics provided by Cooley and other law schools in a format required by the ABA were so vague and.
In recent weeks we've made a couple of visits to our friends at Rutgers-Camden, where we found them struggling to fill even half their normal incoming class, offering to admit people who had never applied, and soliciting applications from people who had never considered going...
They say people go to law school because they're not good at math. BLS estimate of total employment in the legal sector, June 2011: 1,111,200 BLS estimate of total employment.
Yesterday at lunch time an unknown but apparently quite large number of graduates of George Washington's 2012 class got this email: (more…)
Not An Onion Story: But others view [Brian Tamanaha's Failing Law Schools] as just the latest overly dire prediction about the fate of law graduates and misplaced finger-pointing over tuition costs. "Most people in the profession were already concerned about what it costs to get...
NALP has released preliminary employment statistics for the class of 2011 as of nine months after graduation. They are, unsurprisingly, terrible. 12% of 2011 graduates were completely unemployed in February.