Kansas Law Free Press aims to inform, inspire, entertain

The Kansas Law Free Press is a news publication written by students at KU Law. KLFP is about news things, big ideas, awkwardness, intellectual diversity, refinement, and getting to the point. It’s dedicated to informing, inspiring, and entertaining the students, faculty, and administration at KU Law as well as the community at large. KLFP was founded one year ago by …

Salary transparency

In the April 2011 National Association for Law Placement Bulletin, NALP Executive Director Jim Leipold discusses the push for more transparency in the reporting of legal employment data for recent law school graduates. I found the following statements about salary data to be the most interesting: Of all the placement statistics, salary data is of course the most problematic in …

Fellow Hispanic students enhanced law school experience for 3L

As I’m wrapping up my final semester of law school, I’ve been reflecting on my three-year journey. I will miss the quirky professors and their bland jokes. I will miss the everyday academic challenge. Most of all, I will miss many of the people I’ve come to know. As a law student, you will spend three years in the trenches …

Career Services issues kudos to successful job hunters

Long before the advent of the KU Law Blog and the Career Services weekly e-blast, our office produced a monthly newsletter in paper form (yes, really!) that included a “Career Services Kudos” section each March and April to recognize job-hunting successes. The positivity of the Kudos section jibed well with lengthening daylight hours, rising temperatures, blooming flowers and the hope …

A realistic look at a summer legal job search

As many people know, there has been a heightened focus on the legal job market in the media lately. Most notably, the New York Times recently ran an article on the doom and gloom of the legal job market and the unemployment struggles of new law grads. As a 2L inching closer to my impending graduation in May 2012, I …