University of Virginia law students learn great mediation skills courtesy of a law clinic. Read the whole story at The Daily Progress…
University law clinic takes on mediation
By Tasha Kates
It was a bad night on the nursing home wing for incontinence.
Understaffed and underpaid, Nurse Phoebe was trying to clean up all 10 of her patients [...]

Here’s a very interesting article about some long-needed changes in established law school programs, focusing on practical training and clinical work. The article is a bit long, but it’s worth looking at.
Read the whole article at LawJobs.com…
Reality’s Knocking as Law Schools Provide More Practical Training
by Karen Sloan
Washington and Lee University School of Law has [...]

Practical, tech-savvy knowledge is an essential element of the new 21st century law student. But unfortunately, many law schools lag in this area. Here’s a look at how a law school strives to be on the cutting edge of new technologies, courtesy of The Business Journal…
Law schools in Silicon Valley add practical [...]

Berkeley Law grads who turn to public interest or government work find their alma mater is willing to help with some of those loans when they start coming due.  Read more at KCBS.com…
Berkeley Law Expands Loan Program
UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law announced this week that it’s expanding its loan repayment assistance program for [...]

An interesting analysis that dovetails a bit with one of the conclusions Law School Mastery reached many years ago: part of satisfaction, and therefor peak performance in law school, includes managing expectations.
Read this entire blog entry at The Wall Street Journal…
Study: The Better the School, the Less Happy the Associate
The economy of the last 16 [...]

US News & World Report sheds some light on what law school graduates get the nicest Federal judicial clerkships.  Not many surprises here.  Yale ranked #1, followed by The University of North Dakota, Stanford and Harvard.
New Law School Ranking: Judicial Clerkship Jobs
by Robert Morse
Behind every great judge is his or her law clerk. Judicial clerkships [...]

The idea that there are just too many lawyers isn’t a new idea, but it deserves mention even in these difficult economic times.
It seems that some think that it’s not that there aren’t enough legal jobs, but rather, there are just too many lawyers.  Read more at The New York Times…
Another View: Lock the Law [...]

No, not The Cylons.  After plodding through four seasons of Battlestar Galactica, I’m not convinced The Cylons ever had a plan.  The ones that really need a plan are third year law students about to face one of the toughest legal job markets in recent memory.
Be sure and read this article and the advice within [...]

I know that people keep repeating that ‘the recession is ending,’ but simply repeating it over and over, and sounding serious about it, doesn’t seem to be helping.
From what I hear from my highly paced secret sources in some of the more elite firms out there, it’s going to get worse.
Read more at The Chicago [...]

Would-be legal eagles may want to try on a couple of US Air Force wings, as the Air Force announces some new JAG law school programs. Read more at The Langley Fighter…
JAG corps announces law school programs
By Capt. Eric W. Adams
Applications for the Funded Legal Education Program and Excess Leave Program are being accepted [...]