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Back to School: A 58-Year-Old’s Thoughts on the One-L Year
This is a discussion on Back to School: A 58-Year-Old’s Thoughts on the One-L Year within the Anything Law Related forum, part of the Off-Topic category; by WSJ.com The “outsider-goes-to-law-school” theme worked well for Reese Witherspoon. Could it work for Steve Cohen? Let’s explain. Cohen is ...
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Back to School: A 58-Year-Old’s Thoughts on the One-L Year
by WSJ.com
 The “outsider-goes-to-law-school” theme worked well for Reese Witherspoon. Could it work for Steve Cohen? Let’s explain. Cohen is 58 and is currently a first-year student at New York Law School. He’s already had a successful career in marketing and has taught marketing and management at a handful of schools. As he describes it in this piece, law school was a bit of a lark; he’d always been interested in law, but the recent departure of his youngest son to college made him an empty-nester. Suddenly he had the time to take on something like law school. And the movie? That’s just our pipe-dream. We love movies about law school and think a tale of an older fellow trying his hand at a young-person’s game just might work. Especially given the following tidbits. More... Back to School: A 58-Year-Old’s Thoughts on the One-L Year - WORLD Law Direct Forums 
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