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October 1, 2020 | Law.com
Law Students for Climate Change Accountability, a new group out of Yale Law School that seeks to go national, is an outgrowth of the earlier #DropExxon campaign that targeted Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
By Karen Sloan
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July 28, 2020 | Law.com
The American Bar Association surveyed more than 1,000 new lawyers, and found that they owed an average $160,000 in student loans. That hefty debt is influencing their career paths and life decisions.
By Karen Sloan
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July 16, 2020 | New York Law Journal
New York joins a slew of other jurisdictions that have canceled planned bar exams amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But it's the first to pull the plug without committing to an online test or a diploma privilege.
By Karen Sloan
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July 15, 2020 | Law.com
A new survey by the National Association for Law Placement found that half of law firms have yet to set start dates for their new associate classes, in part due to uncertainty over when the bar exam will be given.
By Karen Sloan
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June 9, 2020 | Law.com
Law.com breaks down the latest American Bar Association data on law school entry-level employment to determine which schools fared the best—and worst—in 10 different job categories.
By Karen Sloan
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May 28, 2020 | Law.com
Summer internships have been canceled en mass, and law firms have curtailed summer associate programs. Two law schools are attempting to fill the gap with their own summer training programs.
By Karen Sloan
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April 2, 2020 | Law.com
Moving on-campus interviews from late summer into late fall or early winter will give students some breathing room and give law firms some time to better assess their hiring needs, career services deans say.
By Karen Sloan
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April 2, 2020 | Law.com
The findings of a survey of nearly 2,500 law firm partners and associates reveal that most associates don't plan to stick around long term, and partners view them as less committed to their jobs than they were.
By Karen Sloan
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March 23, 2020 | Law.com
Law firms say they want the delay, in part, because a move to to pass/fail grading for the spring semester will muddy the hiring process. It's also unclear whether firms will even be in a position—or have the need—to dispatch partners to law schools for interviews in late summer.
By Karen Sloan
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February 7, 2020 | Law.com
Yale law students disrupted a Paul Weiss recruiting reception on Feb. 6, decrying the firm's representation of ExxonMobil in climate change litigation. They are working with law students at Harvard to expand their campaign to other campuses.
By Karen Sloan
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