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Think twice before taking personal injury case to social media

Social media is a wonderful tool to stay in contact with people you don’t get to see every day. Your friends and family members want to know what you’re up to, but you should think twice before posting about your personal injury case. Insurance companies need to protect their profits Like any other business, insurance companies work hard to protect their profits. They’re not going to pay out a settlement without investigating to every extent!

How Much Does a Divorce Lawyer Cost?

When shopping for a divorce lawyer, most people will want to know how much it’s going to cost. Like any other legal matter, the answer will depend on numerous factors. Regardless of the answer, it’ll likely be more than you...

Government lawyers don’t understand the Internet. That’s a problem.

Learning Law by Seeing and Doing

Law schools teach the law and how to learn the law, but not how to be a lawyer (aside from the odd c...

Hey Law Students — If Your Professors Can Do It, So Can You

The deadline for our ninth annual Law Revue Video Contest is fast approaching, so don't delay!

Yup, Where You Go To Law School Matters For Your Future Paycheck

A look at partner compensation reveals law schools matter.

Five Ways to Set Yourself Up For Success on Law School Exams

Most law students are aware that outlining their courses and taking and getting feedback on practice exams are vital to ensuring that they perform to the best of their ability on law school exams. What law students may not be aware of is that there are other things just as vital that they can do …

How to Avoid a Stress-Induced Coma in Law School

It’s not news to anybody that law school is stressful. Unless you’re coming straight from getting an engineering degree, or you’ve already gone through a masters program, you’ve probably never faced academic pressure quite like…

What Is a Mother-In-Law Apartment & Should You Have One?

Whether you're building a mother-in-law suite or purchasing a home that has one, here's what you need to know about owning an in-law apartment.

Ms. Prof: It All Starts in Law School! Networking Tips for Law Students

Your professional career doesn’t start when you graduate law school—rather, it begins during law school. If you are a current law student, you shouldn’t just be aiming to get through…...

I Wish I Partied More In Law School

Social connections can be extremely helpful to law students in their future careers, in some cases, more helpful than some of the information they learn in law school classes.

The risks of informal children’s arrangements in Family Law

Verbal agreements between parents in Family Law matters are easy to breach. What options are there to formalise arrangements for children in Family Law matters?

8 Things I Wish I Had Known As A Law Student (With An IP Focus)

FYI, you can still practice IP law -- even patent law -- without a hard science or engineering background.

When You Do And Do Not Need to Hire a Divorce Lawyer

Whether you should hire a divorce lawyer or not depends on whether your divorce is uncontested or not. In most cases, it is best to hire one.

5 Reasons Not to Quit Law School

Every Winter, between semesters and before the drop cutoff, countless law students ponder whether or not they should cut their losses and drop out of law school. That thought is entirely reasonable. Getting back bad grades, or just the compounded...

Don't Let Anxiety Drive Law School Applications

I am writing to you from my happy place – I’m in Palm Springs. It’s good to get away sometimes, get out of the grind, and open myself up to new ideas. All week, I’ve known I wanted to (had to) write this article about anxiety, but until I got away, to a new place, I didn’t feel ready. New surroundings help clear my head. Heck, even an hour-long yoga class or the rare treat of a massage – anything that gives me…

What is it, How to get it, + MORE (with Lexington Law)

Let's talk CREDIT - what is it, whyyou need it, how to get it, + MORE. My friends at Lexington Law are the laders in credit repair, and they've brought some helpful tips to the table. Is your credit score where it should be, or could be?