Archive for August, 2008
Foreign student law school applicants’ personal statement strategies
If You are a Foreign Student, Your Sample Law School Personal Statement Can Get You Admitted to Your Dream Law School Before I actually go to the particularities of a sample law school personal statement, I think it is necessary to mention this. You (as the foreign student) would have to finish all prerequisites, with [...]
Law school personal statement: Love of travel and the Law
I have always loved and appreciated travelling, regardless if it is the nearest country or a place two continents away. This appreciation is one that I started acquiring when growing up with an uncle (Indonesian-born). My father died in a tragic accident when I was just three years old, and my mother was working on [...]
Before you apply to law school: Can your legal job be outsourced?
Outsourcing could be a good equalizer for the law offices (smaller ones) in the name of competition. The company could have legal or technical assistance, but they are not forced to have a big staff. Plus, the bosses do not need worry that their workers are not doing enough for the salaries being given. Outsourcing [...]
Personal statement: Cultural challenges, Immigrant dreams, Criminal Justice
We tend to seek all the easy answers to the world’s pain and suffering. We always complain in the papers, raise our points in the board room, trade points of view over the dinner table. What we don’t do enough, in my opinion, is act. Although we may have the best interests in mind when [...]
Getting admitted to UC Hastings
The University of California Hastings College of the Law is a well-respected law school and one of the earliest law schools in the West Coast. Among its notable alumni are Congresswoman Jackie Speier, California State Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman, San Francisco Public Defernder Jeff Adachi, and California State Assemblyman Todd Spitzer. History The University [...]
5 things you can do with a law degree besides practice law
Every year, hundreds and hundreds of lawyers make a career change. Due to the downsizing trends exhibited by so many companies, so many lawyers are seriously contemplating about doing something outside the main law practice. Still, deciding on which one could be a very scary and challenging issue, let this article help you out. Questions [...]
Emphasizing the “personal” in law school personal statements
You Can Turn Your Sample Law School Personal Statement Into a Blockbuster Blockbuster reading is what I mean, and I do not mean to say that you turn it into a highly-dramatic fiction- as though you were following the writing style of Stephen King or Koontz. Remember, your sample law school personal statement is an [...]
The five hardest law schools to get into
Yes, there are so many good law schools in the country, but there are those that are a class of their own. These are the very best, and needless to say, getting into them is really difficult. One concrete reason why they are considered as “first among equals” is that not every Tom-Dick-Harry-lawyer-wannabe could get [...]
Personal statement: From Accounting to Law
Unlike most of my peers, I knew what I wanted long before I stepped into college. I was going to study a degree in Accounting or Finance and work toward having an MBA, perhaps with a few professional stints in between. But halfway through my program—in what seemed like my hundredth class in Accounting—I realized [...]
Sample law school essay: setting my own path
Like many young adults, I went into college with much of my life already planned out for me. A lot of us follow goals and expectations that are not our own, make choices forced upon us by other people’s ambitions, and realize we are going nowhere and inevitably lose our drive. It certainly was the [...]