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California law schools fall in rankings
Most California law schools dropped in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, and no school moved up as the news magazine changed its calculations to give more weight to how well graduates do landing legal jobs.
Report: Legal sector jobs continued to rise in December
Jobs in the legal sector jumped by roughly 1,000 last month, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released last week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Under New Management
The game of musical chairs prevalent among law school deans continued this year, as four of California's top legal institutions transitioned to new leadership.
Stepping Out of a Comfort Zone

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts." - Coach John Wooden

These words perfectly describe how I feel about my three years at Pepperdine Law School.
Late in Law
Happy are those who dream dreams and have the courage to make them come true. This was my mantra as I began the process of acquiring a legal education. It is written on a plaque that sat on my desk for so many years and that I look at today
Immigrants' Daughter Makes Good
Becoming an attorney has been a lifelong goal. Interestingly, my inspiration for this goal did not come from having parents that were attorneys nor having role model attorneys that I looked up to.
Law Goes Green
There is an adage, "Which came first, green business practices or green in your wallet?" Come to think of it, the adage might have had more to do with a now immortalized chicken and an egg it might have laid.
War Is Hell - and So Is Passing the Bar
This is me becoming a Bar brawler. For my first three years of law school, I drove an hour each way, from Santa Rosa to San Francico, to attend night classes at San Francisco Law School. That's about 100 miles each day, 400 every week, 1,60