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New lawyering relies very little on your legal education or your bar exam preparation. Instead, it requires drawing on the vault of life experiences you have earned, your abilities as a competent person, and the "idea" that someone gave you a license.

Facing the challenge of losing accreditation, the school has taken a bold step. It has drastically reduced this year’s entering class and is giving full-tuition scholarships to all full-time students.

How do you make the transition from your studies to the office when you have no legal experience? Which firms should you apply to? What are hiring managers looking for?

Northeastern University School of Law sent out over 4,000 acceptance emails for the 2023-24 academic year this week. Seems a little early and an awful lot of acceptances, right?

Laura Beny has been a law professor at University of Michigan Law School since 2003. She was the school’s second Black female tenure-track professor.

"Four subjects that, if taught in law school, would make life a lot easier for everyone."

Many women are leaving big firms due to work culture.

The project is important to Bazyler because of his personal experience as a Russian-speaking Jewish refugee. He came to America in the 1960s with his Holocaust-survivor parents.

The 60 deans responded to that request for comments with a letter that says optional entrance exams would cause schools to rely more on GPA and other criteria, which could be “detrimental” to diversity among law students and the legal profession.

Students in the program will advocate for action to address Afghanistan’s human rights situation.