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anybody know how or have friends that do it? is this a realistic expectation?
However, HLS professors know that their work could affect the ways in which students, once they graduate, understand and practice the law; for this reason, professors eagerly share their work with students in the classroom. Because professors want to train a new generation of lawyers, policymakers, and academics, they care a great deal about the quality of their students' educational experience.
Harvard Law School. Harvard's admissions process is very streamlined. By glancing at the admissions decision charts for Harvard and its close peers, one can much more easily predict Harvard decisions than decisions from Yale and Stanford or even Chicago and Columbia.
Cadence Bank has a 0% down no PMI program for attorneys in their first five years of practice (counted from your licensure date). I think the rate was 4.125% for a 30-year fixed with auto-pay and direct deposit into a Cadence bank account and 3.625% for a 5/1 ARM with the same.
From what I’ve seen, if your firm has the relationship, Citi private bank is probably the best as far as rates, down payment for PMI, etc. I thought First Republic would be more competitive because that’s kinda their schtick with the student loan refis.
LaLiLuLeLo wrote: From what I’ve seen, if your firm has the relationship, Citi private bank is probably the best as far as rates, down payment for PMI, etc. I thought First Republic would be more competitive because that’s kinda their schtick with the student loan refis.
Any other 0/0 options? Hard trying to get a down payment in an expensive market - NYC and paying loans when not in big law.
Somewhat belated follow-up to the above. Is it usual for Citi to refuse applicants until they are 3rd-year associates, or is this a recent change?
Are there any refinance programs available for attorneys like what is described above? Or is it only new purchases?
Does anyone know how these work in markets like NYC where the co-op requires 20% down?
Law schools that excel at IP law are first and foremost, Berkeley's Boalt Hall, secondly Stanford, and then there is a big drop, but other strong IP law schools include George Washington, Columbia, NYU, and Franklin Pierce.
Because the law focuses upon consumers' reaction and possible confusion, trademark law is actually very intuitive and can be easily understood by an intelligent person in a few hours. I enjoy giving seminars to business people on trademark law and within a short period I know by the questions being asked that the principles have been understood.
I would apply to both law schools, see if you get any money from the University of Nebraska Law School (sounds like money from Creighton Law School is expected) and then make your decision after doing a lot of due diligence. I would contact patent attorneys in Omaha as well as other cities you may be living in, such as Denver, to see if they can offer you any advice. If you find attorneys you have something in common with (such as you both attended the same college), they will generally give you 15 minutes of their time.
As a general rule, I recommend that when applicants are faced with the choice of whether to go to the better overall law school or the better law school for the specialty that they are interested in, I recommend going to the better overall law school. This is because most applicants will change their minds and switch their field of interest while in law school or can still take some classes in their field at the better overall law school, but just not as many.
Needless to say, there are a lot of subtle points of law that make trademark law very exciting that cannot be conveyed in one article, but as a whole it is a fun area of law and actually getting a lot of attention now because Internet domain names function as trademarks.