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BY LYNN WEISBERG

Law school tuition may cost a small fortune, but bar-related expenses could catch you off guard if you don't plan ahead. Students should prepare to fork up additional money for oft-forgotten costs such as bar preparation courses, bar application fees, bar examination fees, and mandatory state bar fees.

BY LAURA GATLAND

Few racial minorities have landed coveted clerkships on the U.S. Supreme Court, and women are just beginning to increase their numbers from near-obscurity. Some accept this as a fact of life and deny discriminatory intent. Others are taking action.

BY DONNA GERSON

Consider a career as a corporate in-house counsel. Although private practice offers higher base salary potential than corporate employment, in-house lawyers cite valuable perks they wouldn't necessarily get from law firms or solo practice--stock options, bonuses, significant flexibility, and family-friendly atmospheres, to name a few.

BY KYLE V. MITCHELL

Get more from your LSD membership--join an ABA section

BY MARGARET GRAHAM TEBO

You don't need to enjoy the outdoors to work in environmental law

BY DAVID C. JAMES

Consider these tips for interview season--whether you're a 1L, 2L, or 3L

BY HEATHER E. MACDONALD

Crash course gives minority prelaw students a leg up on law school

BY BRYAN A. GARNER

Writing well in law is a perpetual struggle for clarity

BY JONATHAN S. GREENE

Kindness and cooperation are key to productive work relationships

BY BARRY E. KATZ

A young intellectual property lawyer takes his firm into the 21st century

BRANDON BIGELOW, STUDENT EDITOR

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