U.S. Law schools profiles include:
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
University of Chicago Law School
Columbia Law School
Georgetown University Law Center
Harvard Law School
University of Michigan Law School
New York University School of Law
Northwestern University School of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Stanford University Law School
University of Virginia School of Law
Yale Law School

Each guide includes a detailed overview of every aspect of law school from student body demographics and academics to career placement and life on campus.  Not only will these guides help you save time during the school research process, but they also allow you to easily compare peer programs by presenting key data side-by-side .

Whether you’re a college junior considering applying to law school next fall, an experienced professional looking to enter the legal field or an applicant who’s in the throes of drafting his or her applications for admission in fall 2012, our free guides are the best place to turn for easy-to-read school-specific information.

Visit the “Law School Guides” tab on our blog to get your free guides today.  Best of luck in the law school admissions process!

The law school has released information offering a comprehensive view of employment statistics. For example, figures include how many graduates are working at variously sized firms and how many graduates are working in positions that require having passed the bar exam. Furthermore, both average salary and geographic location is made available by class. This data is available for the graduating classes of 2008, 2009 and 2010. The University of Chicago Law School based their method of reporting on the one used by Yale Law School.

In an interview with the blog Above the Law, Dean of University of Chicago Law School Michael Schill stated that he hopes the school’s actions “will encourage other law schools to report their statistics with the same level of granularity and with equal candor.” According to Above the Law, both Yale Law School and University of Chicago Law School serve as examples that a high level of reporting is possible.

For the full press release, go here.

This year’s set of comprehensive guides was designed with the discerning law school applicant in mind.  Each publication provides detailed information about areas such as academics, clinical programs, student clubs, career services, and admissions and financial aid in an easy-to-use format.  These objective guides will help law applicants:

• Select law schools effectively by comparing J.D. programs head-to-head using objective data that goes beyond published rankings
• Save time assembling application materials as the guides provide the key admissions information that law applicants need in one location
• Craft informed application essays with school-specific details about special programs, faculty, and experiential learning opportunities to enhance Personal Statements and supplemental essays
• Develop an insightful waitlist strategy by demonstrating knowledge of a program that proves the applicant’s “fit” in the class

We’re confident that applicants at all stages of the law school admissions process will find the Clear Admit Law School Guides to be valuable, time-saving resources.  More updated titles will be released in the coming weeks to help applicants navigate the top U.S. law schools.  To take a “look inside” our guides, please visit the Clear Admit Shop where each guide is available for immediate download.  Be sure to check back in early December for the release of seven more 2011-2012 Clear Admit Law School Guides!

The coaches of the two teams are all employed at Walkup Melodia Kelly & Schoenberger, located in San Francisco. Spencer Pahlke, a Berkeley graduate himself, coached the winning team, while Melinda Derish ’03 and Emily Wecht coached the runners-up.

According to coach Pahlke, the competition went as well as it possibly could have. As he explained, “Our students’ preparation shined through brilliantly. They were informative and interesting in their opening statements, helped their witnesses be storytellers on direct examination, broke down the other side’s case on cross examination, and brought everything together during closing argument. It was a joy to watch.”

To reach the final round, each team has to win three preliminary-round trials, as well as a semi-final competition, before being judged by the presidents of Washington’s State Bar in the championship. This year, students participating in the competition focused on a collision between a semi-truck and a small passenger car, requiring “a lot of algebra and really understanding the math,” according to Lalas.

The competition – this year held in Seattle – attracted 16 teams. The winning team will advance to the national trials, this year held in Las Vegas on March 31-April 3. To read more about the Berkeley teams, click here.

Their talk focused on the changes in Congress they had witness in over two decades of service. Both believed that Senate members had lost a sense of camaraderie as political and ideological divides sharpened. Remarked Daschle, “Our country is so deeply divided, philosophically and politically, right now. The Congress reflects that divide.” Lott noted, however, that dysfunction of the Senate had always existed, stating, “The Senate was designed to be dysfunctional. It was designed to force consensus.”

The talk was organized by the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress. To view the conversation in full, please click here.

The Clear Admit Guide to Georgetown University Law Center contains the most up-to-date information available about the admissions process, academic programs and quality of life at Georgetown University Law Center, and we present it to you in an easy-to-read format.  Download your copy to learn about Georgetown Law’s unique Curriculum B, its London-based Center for Transnational Legal Studies, its robust Public Interest Law Scholars Program and much, much more.  Here’s a glimpse of our section on the Georgetown Law clinical program:

“The clinical program at Georgetown Law consists of 14 clinics, all of which offer free or low-cost legal services to underserved communities.  In addition to these fourteen Georgetown-run programs, students can also participate in the independent clinic D.C. Law Students in Court, which is open to students from five law schools in the D.C. area. In all of these clinics, students are responsible for most aspects of client representation, including research, interviewing clients, counseling, negotiation, analysis, legal writing and elements of the oral advocacy process. Depending on the clinic in which they choose to enroll, students can gain experience in trial, administrative, appellate or legislative practice under the direct supervision of Georgetown Law faculty, as well as learn about corporate and transactional law and engage in policy analysis.  In a few Georgetown clinics, students are permitted to personally represent their clients in court.

Georgetown’s newest clinic is the Community Justice Project, which opened in the spring of 2010.  Students in this clinic take on a wide variety of cases based on the needs of the marginalized clients who approach them; thus far, the clinic has offered legal assistance to clients with HIV, represented runaway youths and people facing life sentences in prison, and helped incarcerated parents to reestablish contact with their children.  Students’ responsibilities include investigating cases brought before the clinic, trial preparation, community organizing, written and oral advocacy, and lobbying governmental agencies on behalf of their clients.”

Like our other 11 Clear Admit Law School Guides, which were released in late July, the Guide to Georgetown University Law Center is designed to help law applicants:

• Select law schools effectively by comparing J.D. programs head-to-head using objective data that goes beyond published rankings

• Save time assembling application materials as the guides provide the key admissions information that law applicants need in one location

• Craft informed application essays with school-specific details about special programs, faculty, and experiential learning opportunities to enhance Personal Statements and supplemental essays

• Develop an insightful waitlist strategy by demonstrating knowledge of a program that proves the applicant’s “fit” in the class

The Clear Admit Guide to Georgetown University Law Center is available in the Clear Admit Shop, along with our 11 other titles: Harvard Law, Yale Law, Stanford Law, Columbia Law, NYU School of Law, Chicago Law, Penn Law, Berkeley Law, Michigan Law, Northwestern Law and Virginia School of Law.  Guides can be purchased individually for $25 each, or for a discounted price of $20 each if you add three or more to your shopping cart.

This set of comprehensive guides was designed with the discerning law school applicant in mind.  Each publication provides detailed information about areas such as academics, clinical programs, student clubs, career services, and admissions and financial aid in an easy-to-use format.  These objective guides help law applicants:

• Select law schools effectively by comparing J.D. programs head-to-head using objective data that goes beyond published rankings

• Save time assembling application materials as the guides provide the key admissions information that law applicants need in one location

• Craft informed application essays with school-specific details about special programs, faculty, and experiential learning opportunities to enhance Personal Statements and supplemental essays

• Develop an insightful waitlist strategy by demonstrating knowledge of a program that proves the applicant’s “fit” in the class

We’re confident that applicants at all stages of the law school admissions process will find the Clear Admit Law School Guides to be valuable, time-saving resources.  To take a “look inside” our guides, please visit the Clear Admit Shop where each guide is available for immediate download.  Be sure to check back in early September for the release of the Clear Admit School Guide to Georgetown Law!

Hot off the presses, the Clear Admit Guide to LSAT Test Preparation Companies is a 33-page publication that goes into detail about each firm, outlining its history, service offerings, cost, refund policies, instructor qualifications, course schedules, teaching approach and more.  We believe that reading this guide will help you make an informed decision about choosing the company that best suits your needs.

In addition, our LSAT Guide includes coupons for services from the 9 firms we profiled.  The discounts offered are collectively worth several hundred dollars, and are available exclusively to those who download the publication, thus allowing you to save money on the firm you select!

To obtain your free copy, simply visit the purchase page of the online Clear Admit shop, where The Application Strategy Series: LSAT Test Preparation Companies Guide is listed at the top of the page.  Click on the corresponding link to be guided through a brief ordering process, after which you will receive an e-mail with a password that lets you download, save, print or read your own copy of the guide.

Check it out today!

In a recent article, law professor Brian Tamanaha called his peer – fellow law professors – to action, expressing his opinion that professors are playing a role in the troubles law graduates are facing. According to his article, law applicants are drawn to law schools by visions of high paying firm jobs in the future – why else, he argues, would these individuals agree to give up their salaries for three years and graduate with loans that often exceed $100k. Oftentimes, the debt law graduates face post-J.D. requires that they pay up to $1,000 a month in loan repayments.

Tamanaha argues that it’s unfair to encourage a large number of applicants to apply to law schools when, in reality, many of them will struggle to find employment once they have received their degrees, and will therefore find it difficult to deal with the amount of debt they are carrying as a result of having attended law school. Especially at lower-tier programs, Tamanaha indicates, the majority of graduates will not be scoring high-paying big firm jobs, though most of the graduates will have been lured to law schools under the false perception that, so long as they work hard, they will have no trouble landing such a career.

Though Tamanaha agrees that that admissions offices could be doing more to curtail the number of law students graduating without employment prospects – such as accepting fewer students, being more upfront about the types of jobs students land after graduation and pushing for lower tuition fees – he also points out that professors are not entirely without blame in the situation. As Tamanaha boldly states, it is no longer acceptable for professors to sit idly by while law schools continue to mislead prospective about the opportunities they will have post-J.D. As he says, “The longer law schools delay in undertaking these measures, the more casualties there will be.” Professors, he indicates, can no longer pretend that their efforts – paid for by the students – will be enough to help graduates score lucrative jobs.

To read Tamanaha’s article in its entirely, click here.

Yale Law School, like Stanford and Harvard, provides an admissions blog that discusses a range of topics – various categories of topics discussed include, “Applying,” “Bad Ideas” and “Student Life.” The blog – entitled the (203) Admissions Blog – is a great resource for students considering applying to Yale, as the various posts provide an insider’s look at different aspects of the admissions process, Yale curriculum and student life. It’s also just as good a resource for students already intend on applying – the information gained from reading to blog will be valuable when writing your personal statement and during interviews.

For additional information about Yale Law School, make sure to check out the Clear Admit’s Guide to Yale Law School. Inside, you’ll find information on student body demographics, independent research opportunities and study abroad offerings.