When fighting legal battles is your nine-to-five job, perpetually maintaining an empathetic mindset can be difficult. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; after all, if a lawyer tried to be emotionally invested in every case she fought, she would likely find...
Laypeople tend to see laws as being set in stone and incontrovertible – and theoretically, they are. However, our legal system in practice relies on argument and interpretation far more often than you might think. In the span of a few inflected words, the...
Law students have it rough. For all the legal profession’s reputation as a highly coveted, lucrative field, more lawyers than ever are finding themselves jobless and broke in the months following graduation. Some law graduates have even begun suing their schools...
Television shows make lawyers look slick. Packed with courtroom drama, glitzy parties, and behind-the-scenes political machinations, these high-powered cinematic lawyers seem to have it made. For students finishing up their undergrad and looking to their future, law...
Contrary to popular belief, lawyers don’t spend most of their professional lives in the courtroom. Instead, they page through the day amidst piles of research, looking for technical details and wording specifics that could push their cases to victory. Despite...
Saturday night rolls around and you find yourself where you usually are on weekend nights: buried under a veritable mountain of legal tomes, trying to scribble out a paper before your midnight deadline. You manage to pull a coherent piece with the help of several...
