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The end of the salary war?
Robert Nelson remembers when New York law firms paid first-year associates more than law firms in other cities around the country.

School creates more flexibility for its students
Founded on the principle of making a legal education accessible to everyone, Chicago-Kent College of Law recently made its evening J.D. program even more convenient by giving first-year students the chance to take a summer course, and thus lighten their workload in the fall.

School works to prepare students for the next step
How well do law schools actually prepare students to practice law? That's the big question the American Bar Association asks when it decides whether a law school should be accredited.

Want to win your suit? Wear one
We are taught that justice is blind and assume judges do not base their decisions on what an attorney is wearing. Then, why should it matter what an attorney wears to court?

Law school offers unique LLM program
With the revolution in health-care law, a pair of young students are pursuing an education destined to make them hot commodities in the legal field.

Loyola law students learn overseas
For Angela Inzano, a 23-year-old student making her first venture outside of the United States, her trip to Beijing presented some challenges.

Northwestern launches program for third-year students
The rules of law may be set in stone, but the landscape in which they are being practiced is changing.

Profile : Lawyer brings broad-based IP experience to the table
The idea of becoming an attorney - let alone an intellectual-property attorney - didn't enter Michael D. Switzer's head when he was growing up in Brattleboro, Vt.

Law school deans discuss the state of today's legal education
In the past two years, many law firms laid off partners and associates. Many stopped hiring, or - as shown by the Chicago Lawyer 2010 survey of the largest law firms in Illinois - decreased first-year associate salaries for the first time in years.

School believes in interdisciplinary education
The University of Chicago Law School has offered interdisciplinary courses and programs since founding the John M. Olin Program in law and economics more than 50 years ago.

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