Dec 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
October 2018 and Cumulative FYLSE Results Show St Francis Students Continue to Succeed Despite Dips in Bar Exam Pass RatesThe big news in California legal circles is not about the First Year Law Students’ Examination (FYLSE), but about the July 2018 California General... 
Nov 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
Across the Economy, Employers Are Anxious to Hire JD-Prepared Job Candidates Research shows the Juris Doctor (JD) degree significantly increases lifetime earning potential.1 Certainly, much of that is attributable to the work lawyers and litigators do in law practice.... 
Nov 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
A Look Ahead at Some Important Supreme Court Cases Soon to be Decided An ideologically divided Supreme Court faces a daunting calendar of important cases in the new term. Big cases involving some famous names (Apple), governments (Sudan, California, Washington, and... Oct 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Are We Getting the Truth from Our News Sources? Can We Tell? I began writing about “noise” earlier this year, around the time of an article called “Wages of Din: Bond Noise Over Rising Pay Exposes Stretched Markets.” (Title kudos to the Financial Times of February 7,... 
Oct 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Supreme Court faces a daunting calendar of important cases in the new term. Cases involving some famous names (Apple), governments (Sudan, California, Washington and the US Fish and Wildlife Service) as well as issues including double jeopardy, capital punishment,... 
Oct 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Law Students Looking for Purpose Have the Best OutcomesThere’s an old trope that says the first year of law schools scares you to death, the second year works you to death, and the third year bores you to death. Fear, hard work, and boredom are pretty decent... 
Sep 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Lesser-Known Jurisprudence of 2018 Reveals the Better Nature of the Roberts Court Court watchers always look for themes and trends in decisions, and this is never truer than when the court being watched is the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Yet the... 
Sep 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Timing Matters Education is an investment with easily-proven yields. Qualitative returns, like advancing one’s knowledge and becoming a better citizen, are certainly real and important, but questions also persist about quantitative value – the return on... 
Aug 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
June 2018 FYLSE Results Show High Pass Rates for St Francis Students Five St. Francis School of Law students took the June 2018 First Year Law Students’ Examination (FYLSE) in Pasadena, California. In California, students who attend law schools that are registered... 
Aug 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Myth or Reality During the past decade, online education has moved from being an innovative, and at times questioned, form of education to a well-accepted and respected delivery method for higher education. According to a recent study completed by the Babson Survey...