South Carolina Lawyers Weekly would like to congratulate each of the bar applicants who passed the February 2020 South Carolina bar exam. The following names were provided by the South Carolina Supreme Court to recognize those who passed this year’s ...

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Even in the best of times, the grind of preparing for the bar exam is often one of the most harrowing ordeals of a young lawyer’s career. These are, of course, not the best of times, and the students preparing ...

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The University of South Carolina School of Law dropped three spots while Charleston School of Law remained unranked in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. While USC was ranked 88th in 2017 and 2018, this year ...

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For today’s generation of aspiring law students, a career in the law is less about making a buck, and more about making an impact, a new study suggests. According to a survey conducted by Gallup for the Association of American ...

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If Marlowe Rary had known in 2011 what he eventually learned the hard way, he probably never would have applied to law school. Nearly a decade earlier, Rary, a “typical invincible teenager,” had a couple of run-ins with authorities that ...

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With a growing number of law schools accepting the Graduate Record Exam in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test, surely there is an easy way for admissions committees to equate GRE scores with LSAT scores. According to the Educational ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the law school commencement address Sunday of South Carolina’s top judge to (all times local): 6:15 p.m. The chief justice of South Carolina’s Supreme Court is urging law school graduates to work for ...

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The George Mason University School of Law has narrowly avoided making an ASS out of itself. Officials at the Virginia institution were perhaps a bit too hasty in trumpeting plans to change the school’s name to pay homage to the ...

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Working as a legal research attorney can feel a bit like playing a never-ending game of “Jeopardy!” in which you are the only contestant. People constantly fire arcane inquiries your way, covering a diverse array of legal topics, and the ...

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In 2013, law schools enrolled the smallest incoming class since the 1970s. The number of law school enrollees in 2013 was 39,675, which represents an 11 percent drop from the prior year. Figures from the Law School Admissions Council indicate ...

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