Word: hls
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...nominated to serve as then-President-elect Barack Obama's solicitor-general, the administration's representative to the Supreme Court. Kagan was confirmed as the nation's first female Solicitor General in March, and Martha Minow—a long-time Harvard Law School professor—took the HLS deanship in July...
...accepted early retirement incentive packages this spring, exceeding the University's expectations, but Harvard was forced to lay off 275 employees in June as well as offer reduced or changed work hours to approximately 40 others. Check out The Crimson's coverage of cuts in staffing at FAS, HMS, HLS, HBS, and the Harvard College Library...
Given the high cost of law school, finances can often be a determining factor in law students’ career choices. According to HLS Student Financial Services, the standard student budget for the 2009-2010 school year is $67,900. Although financial aid is available, even a portion of this amount is a daunting price that many students will pay for themselves with student loans. Under this pressure, choosing to go into the private sector, where the average starting salary for 2008 HLS grads was over $155,000, can be a more stable and financially responsible choice than taking less...
...feel required to take a corporate job to pay the bills. The tuition waiver is not just a symbolic gesture of HLS’s support for public service; it can mean the difference between a student starting on their career path in the public or private sectors. HLS will form a committee to suggest a successor to the Public Service Initiative whose recommendation will be announced in March of next year, and we hope this body will take provide some sort of adequate replacement to provide financial incentives for public sector work...
While it is admirable that HLS has moved to increase its allocation of financial aid by $2.7 million, this does not serve the same purpose of helping those who need it most. Students from low-income backgrounds who go into corporate law after graduation will no longer be low-income students when they are paying back their loans. Monetary resources should be directed toward those who will actually have difficulty with loan repayment, and that will be students in lower-paying public sector jobs...