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Kicked Out of School 3 Credits Short of Degree. Fair?

Jill Stevenson enrolled at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2002. She completed 87 credit hours toward completing her degree, but she was “academically dismissed” because her GPA dropped in her last year of study. Stevenson took out student loans to pay for her legal education and entered an income-based repayment plan (IBRP) in 2006. …

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Only 1 in 4 Law School Graduates Passed California Bar Exam Last February

Much like the Lusitania, legal education steams full speed toward its ultimate destruction, while law school deans and professors sip California wine and contemplate their retirement portfolios. Earlier this month, the California’s State Bar announced passage rates on the California bar exam, administered last February. Only 27 percent passed the exam–the lowest pass rate in …

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I’m an Attorney. Should I Default on My Private Student Loans for Law School?

Question: Dear Steve, So you’re only the second person in the world I’m telling this to because I was embarrassed by my decision to default on my private law school student loans back in 2014, but now I’m thinking I may be a genius. So I went to law school at large private school in …

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I Am a Lawyer With Sallie Mae Loan Debt. Help! – Scott

“Dear Steve, Public interest lawyer 250k in student debt 6k in credit card debt 8k in private credit loan from sallie mae I have a Sallie Mae loan through their private credit department. I used this loan for living expenses while I took the New York bar exam this past summer. Is this the type …

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Recent Law School Graduate With Massive Student Loan Debt. Help! – JM

“Dear Steve, Recent law school graduate. Legal job at $10/hr, part time. $250,000 in loans (includes 4.5 years undergrad and 3 law school without any family assistance or preparation) accruing interest. Required monthly payments at just under $4500/month, can’t afford rent, gas, food, etc. Living tentatively with family. Hopeless and deeply, deeply scared. Waiting IBR …

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Lawyers Screwed by Deceptive Hiring Rates While Hooked and Buried in Student Loan Debt

Wouldn’t being a doctor or lawyer be nice to just rake in the dough? Well not so fast. When it comes to lawyers making a killing after law school, new data out paints a different picture. For a long time law schools had promoted how many graduates were employed after graduating. These figures gave incoming …

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Law School Grads Become Hopeless Economic Slaves to Their Student Loans and Poor Opportunities

Remember all those people that wanted to go to law school to make a ton of money, and help people as well. The way it looks now the trend in lawyers being able to find jobs is slipping. Paul Campos, a Professor of Law at the University of Colorado says that only one in three …

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