Scholarship Tip

Community foundations exist in many counties throughout the U.S., and are a great place to try to secure additional funding for law school or undergraduate studies.  Click here to find out if there is such a foundation in your community or check your community’s local directories.

Northwestern Offering 2-year Law School Program

Northwestern University School of Law will offer an accelerated, two-year program for law degrees starting in 2009. The program will be conducted in five semesters and it will require the same number of credits as the three-year program, but will cost less.  Candidates for the program are required to  have at least two years of post-undergraduate, full-time work experience. Read more here

The Reason for the Recent Spike in Law School Openings

For universities it is more financially attractive to create a new law school than to create many other types of degree programs.  For this reason, the U.S. recently became the world's first nation of 200 accredited law schools. The 150,000 students enrolled in law schools last year were an all-time high, and there at least ten new law schools being planned nationwide. Read more here

Unhappy Lawyer

For some, the law is not all they hoped it would be.   For those people, Monica Parker has written a new book, The Unhappy Lawyer and launched a new web site, Leaving the Law. Read more here

Law Students, Lawyers and Depression

Research seems to indicate that “lawyers are more likely to suffer from depression, alcohol and drug abuse than other occupations. . . . The problems often start in law school [because] ‘[u]nlike virtually all other professional educational programs -- medicine, psychology, business, accounting -- law schools tend to develop a cold, logical, Star Trek's Mr. Spock mentality. It can be a show me the money attitude, frequently ignoring the client's emotional concerns.’ " Read more here