The impact of stress and loneliness within the legal profession
LAW.COM — Few would deny the stresses and pressures that come with being a lawyer. Yet few feel comfortable admitting when those pressures become too much. One result? Loneliness.
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LAW.COM — The challenges and demands specific to being a lawyer can lead individuals down a path toward mental health struggles. A 2016 study by the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and the American Bar Association found that 28% of lawyers have depression at some level
Read More about The risk of exhaustion for on-call lawyersSurvey: Many college students do not plan on paying off student loans in full
KITV — The survey by EverFi, Inc. suggested the students are suffering from the lack of financial capability long before they enter the workforce.
Read More about Survey: Many college students do not plan on paying off student loans in fullNew report examines factors behind declining international student enrollment
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — An international-education group is warning that “harmful policies and anti-immigrant rhetoric” are keeping international students from enrolling at American colleges, hurting the economy.
Read More about New report examines factors behind declining international student enrollmentWhat law schools are doing to help students cope with stress
ABA JOURNAL — If you think law school is stressful, know that it gets worse once you are in practice, with deadlines, long hours and the weight of what a mistake could mean for a client, says recent graduate Michael R. Anspach. The good news, adds the Ohio lawyer, is that law school is a great…
Read More about What law schools are doing to help students cope with stressHow law schools use admission waitlists
US NEWS & WORLD REPORT — MAY IS A STRESSFUL month for the typical law school applicant. After all the time spent waiting – for grades, letters of recommendation, LSAT results and decisions by law schools – many applicants will find themselves spending some more time in limbo, having been placed on the waitlist by at least one school.
Read More about How law schools use admission waitlistsLaw school deans detail plan to meet new bar passage standard
ABA JOURNAL — Before the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar implemented a tighter bar passage standard May 17, it posted a memo, naming law schools that would likely fail the revision. With the new version of the standard, law schools now have two years, rather than five, to reach a…
Read More about Law school deans detail plan to meet new bar passage standardOpinion: California lawyer responds to call for lowering bar exam cut score
LAW.COM — The author suggests that law school deans should stop pretending that there is a newfound interest in diversity driving a call to lower the score needed to pass the California bar exam.
Read More about Opinion: California lawyer responds to call for lowering bar exam cut scoreCalifornia law school deans call for task force to study bar exam
LAW.COM — The deans of three California law schools write that the current bar exam’s dismal pass-rates and the elevated cut score’s disparate impacts on minority candidates should deeply concern us all.
Read More about California law school deans call for task force to study bar examLaw deans take on university leadership roles
LAW.COM — At least five deans are trading in their law school duties this summer to take on larger roles within their universities—on a temporary basis.
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