If you are thinking about going to law school, you should read a recent report titled “Student Debt: The Holistic Impact on Today’s Young Lawyers.” According to the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division, 90 percent of young lawyers who responded to an ABA survey said they had taken out student loans to finance their legal education. …
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. …
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 …
Question: Dear Steve, I decided to attend law school at 40 because it was a dream I always had, when I graduated in 2009 there were no legal jobs and my loans kept garnering interest. I landed a new job in 2015 but my loans went into default, now they are taking $600 per check, …
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 …
“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 …
“Dear Steve, Student Loan Debt: over $100,000.00 law school debt plus masters debt but no undergrad debt. Here’s one for you. I was studying for a Masters at a law school in so. cal. withdrew due to illness. They say I never withdrew and took the money for one class from student loan and the …
“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 …
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 …
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 …