Stanford Law School today announced the establishment of the Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Fellowship for a Nonprofit and General Counsel Clinic at Stanford Law School.
Orrick has committed $250,000 to support a teaching fellowship for five years for the law school’s newest clinic, which will provide students with opportunities to work with not-for-profit entities and micro-businesses [...]

Though it’s not an issue that grabs national headlines, Democratic congressional candidate Christian Burridge figured student loan interest would be an issue of interest to a room full of college students.
Burridge spoke Wednesday at Utah Valley State College, saying that interest on federally guaranteed student loans should be capped at 4 percent.
He is trying to [...]

When Jeremy Hynd graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2004, he applied to consolidate $44,000 in student loans. With interest rates then at record lows, consolidation offered the opportunity to lock in a 2.5% rate for the life of the loan.
But Hynd discovered that $27,000 of his loans weren’t eligible for federal loan consolidation because they [...]