The University of Miami School of Law is offering incentives to its incoming Fall 2009 students, to defer starting at the school until Fall 2010. The school says a higher than usual number of accepted offers has created a “larger than optimal” first year class. Those who accept the deferral will get a $5,000 scholarship upon completing [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
For months now, Biglaw firms have been offering voluntary, or imposing involuntary, deferral schemes on incoming associates. Now a law school had jumped on the bandwagon. The University of Miami School of Law is asking incoming 1L students invited to start in the Fall to defer their entry into the law school until Fall 2010. Students who [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Most students receiving financial aid from Harvard Law School are required to work for 10 weeks over the summer, the traditional length of a major law firm summer program. But this year, many students have seen their summer jobs reduced, or cut entirely, by law firms. Initially, the school said these students would still need to [...]
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