Friday Links: Regional Law Schools, The Future of Legal Education, & More!

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friday cheerHappy Friday! Time to catch up on some useful law school tips and news from the week:

Are Lawyers Destined to Either be Miserable or Broke? (The Girl’s Guide To Law School)

This week The Girl’s Guide to Law School encourages you to share your thoughts about how to create a new vision for the legal profession.

Who’s Smarter? Law or Biz Students? (Poets & Quants)

Poets & Quants explores the provocative and tongue-in-check question of whether law students are smarter than business students or vice versa.

Question Authority: Law Students Have An Important Role to Play in the Future of Legal Education (The Legal Whiteboard)

Law professor at Indiana Law urges law students to ask law professors tougher questions about the current state of legal education, albeit with respect.

Harvard Asks: Are Law School Faculties Too Liberal? (USA Today)

Today the chief justice of the Supreme Court and the two senior justices, all republicans, will hold a conference to determine whether law school faculties are too liberal.

Are You Better Off at a Regional Law School? (The Careerist)

The Careerists points out how some regional law schools that don’t appear anywhere near the top of the U.S. World News & Report rankings actually do reasonably well for getting grads real legal jobs.

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