• Issues,  Law School

    Breaking Law School Barriers: Law School Essays

    This series, Breaking Law School Barriers, tackles the big and small issues that come into play when you’re deciding if you’ll even attend law school.  The purpose is to give practical advice for college students, and for current law students and attorneys to give suggestions about their real world experience. Nothing seems to stop people in their track more than having to write about themselves.  It’s a hard endeavor.  I see it all the time in clients who have to write statements about certain events in their lives.  The client and I are going along just fine, and when we move on to the next step of writing their statement,…

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    Breaking Law School Barriers III: Letters of Recommendations

    This series, Breaking Law School Barriers, tackles the big and small issues that come into play when you’re deciding if you’ll even attend law school.  The purpose is to give practical advice for college students, and for current law students and attorneys to give suggestions about their real world experience. Today we want to discuss letters of recommendations (LORs) for your application.  It can be awkward asking for a letter, but if you build solid relationships with your professors and advisors, you’ll have a better chance of obtaining solid letters that will help get you admitted.  Most schools require at least two, and generally want it from a professor, not…

  • Issues,  Law School

    Breaking Law School Barriers II: Hidden Costs

    This series, Breaking Law School Barriers, tackles the big and small issues that come into play when you’re deciding if you’ll even attend law school.  The purpose is to give practical advice for college students, and for current law students and attorneys to give suggestions about their real world experience. For those that have started the law school application process it’s likely that you already know this–even applying to law school cost money.   Seriously, as a college senior applying for law school, all I could do from giving up, was keep hoping that I would be given extra hours at my part-time job so that I could afford what…

  • Issues,  Law School

    Breaking Law School Barriers I: Finding Guidance

    This series, Breaking Law School Barriers, tackles the big and small issues that come into play when you’re deciding if you’ll even attend law school.  The purpose is to give practical advice for college students, and for current law students and attorneys to give suggestions about their real world experience. So you want to go to law school?  Felicidades! I think it’s great and we need more women of color in the profession.  There are a lot of questions that you’ll have to answer before you can take the right steps to get into school (finances being a big part), but before you even get to figuring out how to…