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from Brian Dalton, Breaking Media Director of Research The ATL School and Firm Insiders Survey asks self-identified current students, alumni, and practicing lawyers to rate major aspects of life at their law school (academics, social life, clinical training, career services, financial aid advising) and/or law firm (compensation, hours, morale, culture, training). We then translate these ratings into letter grades, where the mean score for each particular ratings category is the equivalent of a “B.” * Georgetown Law is teaming up with DLA Piper and Arent Fox to open a low bono law firm. The firm will provide two things for those in need: affordable legal services and jobs to bolster GULC s employment stats. [Am Law Daily ] * Michigan Law will provide summer funding for all of its 1Ls for law-related internships but there s a catch. The cash is a loan, and students may have to pay it back if they earn Biglaw money the following summer. [Michigan Law ] * Judge Jed Rakoff sounded off on the judicary s problem with mass incarceration at a recent conference at Harvard Law, calling for his colleagues and bar associations across the nation to take a stand for the accused with a gentler justice system. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA ] * “It’s positive news. I think it indicates there’s some slight opening of financial services to marijuana-related businesses. Some banks have finally decided to provide services to weedpreneurs, but others are leaving marijuana moguls high and dry. [WSJ Law Blog ] * Students should seriously consider going to law school in a state where they plan to practice law. Unless you like wasting your time, you d do well to listen to this advice, even if you re going to a school with national name recognition. [U.S. News World Report ] / Apr 14, 2015 at 9:05 AM
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