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Answering Your Mom’s Top 3 Questions About Law School

With the recent passage of this year’s Mother’s Day, we got to thinking, what would a mom want to ask her soon-to-be law student? As someone who was once a law a student, and as someone who has a mom, I feel at least 95% qualified to answer that question. And thusly (who doesn’t love an unnecessary suffix?) I bring you a list of things your mom may or may not ask you as you head off to law school.

Mom’s Law School Question I: What are you going to practice?

You can try to placate relatives with assurances that you’ll have it figured out by the time you graduate, but mothers generally require answer of greater depth. Just pray she knows just as little as you do about what you’re actually going to do with your law degree and tell her that you’re probably going to end up doing some “transactional” work.
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May 13, 2013 - 6:53 pm - By Alex Davis
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Your Law School Application Checklist in 19 Simple(?) Steps

Today on the LSAT blog: a guest post by Law School Expert Ann Levine, the former director of admissions for two ABA-approved law schools and the author of The Law School Admission Game: Play Like an Expert and The Law School Decision Game: A Playbook for Prospective Lawyers.

This law school application checklist is straight out of my new version of The Law School Admission Game, to be released in just a few weeks. References to chapters (below) are within the new book. I hope it’s helpful to those of you applying this fall for the Fall 2014 cycle (and beyond).

1. Register for CAS (Credential Assembly Service)
How?
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May 10, 2013 - 6:18 pm - By Contributing Writer
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Logical Reasonings / 5.9.13

A) Here’s a list of the top 10 law schools in the world. Next up: best law schools in the galaxy. Above the Law. B) Being a lawyer isn’t as intense as it looks on TV and movies. It’s more … Read Entire Article…

May 9, 2013 - 3:53 pm - By Hank
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What Matt Shinners Would Do if He Were a Law School Dean

Big news from Blueprint LSAT Prep today: After nearly a decade of prepping kids for law school, we’re prepping for law school ourselves. Only we’re not attending one. No, dear LSAT blog readers, we’re forming one. And yours truly has been tapped as dean. Be it my pedigree, experience, or the way my profile will look on marketing materials, we’re planning to hit the ground running.

How will our law school be different? I’m glad you asked.

First, we’re going to get you some work experience. But not just in an area you pick. We’re implementing a rotation between different clinicals your first year. Much like law firms will have new/summer associates “try out” different practice groups before assigning them to one, we’re going to have you rotate between different areas of law in that first year of law school.
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Apr 30, 2013 - 6:23 pm - By Matt Shinners
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Logical Reasonings / 4.9.13

A) If you’re going to law school to get into politics, hit up one of these institutions. Above the Law. B) Rural lawyers have to make a living, too. New York Times. C) March was a great month for legal … Read Entire Article…

Apr 9, 2013 - 3:28 pm - By Hank
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Logical Reasonings / 3.29.13

A) Among the steps to prepare for law school debt: Don’t bank on loan forgiveness. US News and World Report. B) Not everyone’s a fan of law schools hiring their own graduates, but it’s not such a bad thing. Above … Read Entire Article…

Mar 29, 2013 - 4:09 pm - By Hank
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Logical Reasonings / 3.5.13

A) St. Louis University’s interim law school dean has already resigned, citing his own political incorrectness. STL Today. B) Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer got his butt chewed out by a judge. He’s going to be in even deeper trouble when he … Read Entire Article…

Mar 5, 2013 - 4:30 pm - By Hank
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Logical Reasonings / 1.29.13

A) The law school application drop, now in graph form! Business Insider. B) A California lawyer lied about a disability so she could have extra time on the bar exam. No word on if she also received a closer parking … Read Entire Article…

Jan 29, 2013 - 4:38 pm - By Hank
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Logical Reasonings / 1.25.13

A) Your search for the perfect law school is finally over, astronauts. Above the Law. B) Sonia Sotomayor says being a lawyer is the best job in the world. Aside from, you know, being a Supreme Court Justice. ABA Journal. … Read Entire Article…

Jan 25, 2013 - 4:35 pm - By Hank
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Logical Reasonings / 1.24.13

A) Katie Holmes wants to go to law school? Say it ain’t so! (It ain’t so.) Gossip Cop. B) Changes at Penn State’s law school keep coming. The dean has resigned. Philly.com. C) You’re not out of the woods yet, … Read Entire Article…

Jan 24, 2013 - 5:16 pm - By Hank
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