Considering whether to consolidate your law school debt? This economics primer for law students and lawyers gives some key facts about federal consolidation loans and information sources you'll need to make that decision.

Considering whether to consolidate your law school debt? This economics primer for law students and lawyers gives some key facts about federal consolidation loans and information sources you'll need to make that decision.

The increasing load of law school debt discourages new lawyers from pursuing public service careers, which typically pay signiciantly less than private law positions. Loan repayment assistance programs ease the debt burden, so new lawyers can take public service jobs and still pay the rent.

In most jurisdictions, a buyer is not required to rely on the underlying truth of a warranted fact in a contract for the sale of a business in order to maintain an action for a breach of an express warranty against the seller - even if the buyer knew of the breach before the sale closed. However, the issue is unsettled in Wisconsin.

The increasing load of law school debt discourages new lawyers from pursuing public service careers, which typically pay signiciantly less than private law positions. Loan repayment assistance programs ease the debt burden, so new lawyers can take public service jobs and still pay the rent.

Howard Eisenberg, dean of Marquette University Law School, and Wisconsin's Atticus Finch, has been described as brilliant, blunt, funny, dedicated, a role model, a voice for justice, a practical joker, or even crusty. A memorial process, begun at his untimely death at age 55 on June 4, reveals Eisenberg's extraordinary nature and impact on Wisconsin's justice system and the surrounding community.