The Roundup: This Week’s Recommended Reading (Aug. 15, 2014)

Welcome to The Roundup for the week ending August 15. We have lots of thought-provoking pieces to share this week.

From Around the Web

• Law Schools Catch the Start-up Bug: To prepare students to find careers in a market oversaturated with people with law degrees, the schools are making entrepreneurship part of their curriculum. (Inc.)
• Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain: The summer vacation may now be a quaint tradition, but make sure you take time for a real break and let your brain have some time off. (The New York Times)
• Former Attorneys Make the Case for Lawyer Therapy: After three decades as an attorney, Alan Levin was a name partner at a respected downtown Chicago law firm, making well into six figures a year, but he gave it up for a different calling. (The Detroit News)
• The Law-School Scam: For-profit law schools are a capitalist dream of privatized profits and socialized losses. But for their debt-saddled, no-job-prospect graduates, they can be a nightmare. (The Atlantic)

The Latest from Trebuchet

• Five Tips for Job Hunting After the Bar Exam: If you just took the bar exam, here are five tips to jump-start your job search, polish you resume and focus on your career.

Enjoy!

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