There are tons of stories in the news about college students (and especially law students) having outrageous student loan debt. The debt can’t be paid. The debt is thousands upon thousands of dollars a month. The debt is making all these people impoverished. Everyone is defaulting and losing everything due to the oppressive student loan payments.

These people claimed they were tricked and bamboozled by the lending banks, and just have no idea how this happened. They claimed they lived frugally and scraped by, doing their best to keep debt low while also getting a first rate education.

I will be probably be completely excoriated by my peers and others for this, but if this student loan debt was acquired any time from 2010 up to the time of this writing, I have one word for these claims: Bullshit. Continue Reading

The Days of Reckoning are very fast approaching for the Summer 2015 Florida Bar Exam takers. Having sat for that same exam not very long ago myself, I’ve compiled some tips that play a bit fast and loose with the notions of traditional studying you’ve probably had heaped upon you. I’m not saying my way is the only way or even necessarily the best way, but for a certain type of personality and mindset I think it’s pretty fantastic.

If you aren’t in law school or taking the bar exam, this post will somehow both make no sense to you while also boring you to death. You have been warned. Also, by way of full disclosure, I am not some sort of Certified Bar Exam Guru or anything like that. I don’t work for BARBRI or Kaplan or any other bar review company. Continue Reading