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The Job Market

The Job Market

Have you found the “Leopard Hot Spot and Law Blog” yet? You'll find it among the choices in the left margin of the "Leopard Solution" page.  It is a “LEGAL AGGREGATOR AND LEGAL BLOG,” relating (in part) to employment of law students and lawyers.

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Why Brief?

Why Brief?

I recently read some advice to law students that explained that “… briefing cases is counterproductive.”  The proponent of this proposition bases this advice on two pillars:
(1)  Briefing misleads students into thinking that knowledge of the particulars of a case is important with respect to earning a good grade; and,
(2)  Briefing uses up all the time a student could otherwise use more productively for exam preparation.
Of course I disagree with that advice.  Here’s why:

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Time to Scrutinize Your Web Presence

While in law school, it's time to review your internet use.  Stories of lawyers having difficulties with their state bar ethics boards are increasingly based on behavior related to net use. 

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Performance Exam Section on the California Bar

Here are two questions lots of graduating 3Ls are asking right now: "How do I study for the Exam and how important is it?"

A California attorney has answers to those questions.  Todd Stevenson is not only a practicing lawyer in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, but he's also,"The Bar Exam Doctor."  He has been tutoring students over five years now for this critical part of the California Bar Exam, and he wrote the following as a response. 

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Exam Woes

If you have not yet taken a law school exam, this gives you a view of what happens to your brain during the pre-exam study period.  Click Here.