LSAC's Online Video Collection
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Financing a Legal Education: Investing in Your Future
A law school education offers many benefits and involves certain costs. Your dream of going to law school must involve some practical financial planning. Financing a Legal Education: Investing in Your Future features law students and new lawyers talking about how they were able to achieve their dream as well as pay their bills. These students and lawyers, along with law school admission and financial aid experts, talk about how to select from a number of financing strategies tailored to your particular needs, ways to cut costs while living on a budget, repayment options after graduation, and mistakes that you can avoid. The program poses questions you should be asking yourself and your financial aid advisors when exploring this very important part of planning and preparing for law school. (20 minutes)
Journeys: Minorities and the Law School Experience
Only one in 25 lawyers in the United States is either Asian, Native American, Latino, or African American. Diversity remains an important goal of LSAC-member law schools. In this video, five minority law students offer their perspectives on the law school experience. (22 minutes)
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OUTlooks
Law students, lawyers, and admission professionals talk candidly about the issues and opportunities facing the gay or lesbian law school candidate. Some of the issues addressed include coming out (or not) on your application, identifying schools that are "gay friendly" and supportive, and the importance of mentors. Several prominent gay attorneys from across the country are profiled as well. (25 minutes)
Getting There: Four Paths to Law School
Four law school students from varied backgrounds recount their individual journeys through the law school application process. (19 minutes)
African American Lawyers: Role Models and Trailblazers
African American lawyers discuss the issues, triumphs, and rewards of pursuing a career in the legal profession. Legal education, professional opportunities, and mentoring are addressed. (23 minutes)
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Believe and Achieve: Latinos in the Law
Latino and Latina lawyers share their stories about how they chose law as a profession and how they achieved their current success. (19 minutes)
Indian Lawyers: Translators of Two Worlds
Native American lawyers tell their stories: what inspired them to pursue a law career and the successes and struggles that followed. (21 minutes)
