Happy news about the Law School Survival Manual from U. Mass.-Dartmouth!

Thanks to Tania Shah and Melissa Gill of Law Tutors, we just found out that U. Mass. School of Law is making sure that all of its incoming 1Ls will be getting a copy of the LSSM.  Thank you, U. Mass.!

Picture of the day: our book on display at the Associate Deans' Conference

(And guess who pulled it out of the stack of books with which it was hanging out?)

Musings about this morning's story about law schools raising their curves.

See here.

Great sense of humor, or just a little too picky these days?

You be the judge (here).  Hat tip to Above the Law.

Should you really go to law school?

Hat tip to TaxProf Blog for posting this warning about most law schools' business models (here).  See also a related post (here) for the role that the U.S. News rankings may play, and see Prof. Tamanaha's original post (here).

Another blog to read: Law School Academic Support Blog.

This blog has great tips (see here).

Question from a blog follower:

In a comment to an earlier post, Anonymous said:

Any thoughts on how to handle unethical and/or unprofessional conduct by attorneys during a summer associate position? I don't feel lucky to have this position -- rather, I feel like I've made a mistake that will follow me around to future firms...

Our answer:  

hanks for your question, Anonymous. First question: do you have enough information to form an understanding about whether the conduct is in fact unethical? If so, does your firm have an ethics committee?

Here's what you might want to do:

1. IF you trust the mentor to whom you were assigned, raise the issue w/that mentor.
2. IF you don't trust that mentor (i.e., the mentor is the one behaving unprofessionally), what about the partner who interviewed you? Can you raise the issue with him or her?
3. If your firm has an ethics committee, you might consider raising it with that committee.
4. If there's no one at the firm whom you trust, then you know that you don't want to work there after graduation. If things are really, really bad and you can resign before the end of the summer--and do anything else to make money--consider doing that.

I'm so sorry that you're experiencing this problem.

BTW, there IS always the chance that you aren't seeing both sides of the matter. If there IS someone at the firm whom you trust, please do try to parse the issue with him or her. GOOD LUCK!