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When you’re out and about driving, police are always somewhere close to you. The chances of getting a ticket can be significantly reduced by following a few simple tips to keep you safe. You have to realize that states are facing extreme budget deficits, forcing law enforcement to write more tickets than ever before. You can bet your hard earned dollars that the police want to hold you accountable for your driving mistakes. Using common sense, we’ve come up with a list of driving tips that can ensure you don’t fall victim to the ticket crisis.

Tip #1: Drive In Packs
If you’re driving along the highway, staying within a group of other cars can help keep you safe. In most cases, the “leader of the pack” will be pulled over first and not you. This significantly reduces the chances that you’ll get a ticket if you’re just a follower. Sometimes you have to speed to make it to your destination on time. If this is your circumstance, then choose to drive in a pack, it will work to keep most of the drivers safe from tickets. Tip #2: Always Be On The Lookout For Speed Traps
Always be on the lookout for places where police could hide. If you pay close attention to the routes you frequently drive, you’ll be able to remember where the police most frequently hide to catch speeders. Also, always use your rear view mirror to make sure there isn’t a police officer behind you. If there is, quickly correct your speed and drive cautiously.

Tip #3: Know The Traffic Laws
The more you obey the law, the less trouble you’ll be able to get into. If you know the traffic laws and obey them to the best of your ability, you’ll be less likely to be pulled over and issued a citation. Many drivers forget the traffic laws or even worse, completely disregard them. Many drivers find out the hard way that they should have remembered the all important traffic laws.

Tip #4: Perform Frequent Maintenance On Your Vehicles
When you have a tail light out, this is a immediate signal for police to pull you over. The better condition you keep your car in, the less chance there will be for the police to find a reason to write you a ticket. Most people who keep their cars in pristine condition don’t get pulled over by the police, especially if they obey the traffic laws and drive at a reasonable speed.

Tip #5: Don’t Outfit Your Car With Eye Catching Details
You may not have known this, but police officers don’t like cars that grab a lot of attention. They like to make sure that other drivers aren’t distracted by flashing lights and hoopla. If you’re going to be driving on the road, it means you should be courteous to other drivers, and that means no eye catching accessories that could cause a wreck. If you’re stopped by the police, make sure you be courteous and respectful. Police have a difficult job and when they encounter a rude driver, they are more inclined to write tickets. Also remember that anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.

Does Michigan’s economy really need six law schools pumping over a thousand newly minted graduates into the service sector every year? Unlike many job seekers, most new lawyers are heavily debt-burdened; some carrying well over $100,000 in student loans. This can quickly lead to desperation.

The economy is still smarting in several key sectors here in Michigan. Both the auto and real estate sectors appear to be clawing their way back, but the jobless rate remains stubbornly high. Most experts are saying we are in for another half-decade of “recovery”.

In down-times, higher education, as an industry, does remarkably well. People take a hard look at their employment prospects and many decide to improve their skills by obtaining additional credentials.

Law school is something that nearly half the population considers at one time or another. In this tough economy, however, have law schools turned this recurring American Dream into a debt-nightmare?

An entire generation of newly minted lawyers, facing student loans the size of a modest first home, are in the same tight spot as those who over-purchased real estate during the boom years. Only for these new lawyers, there is no foreclosure process to make the debt go away.

And the prospects are, well, scary. Established small and medium sized firms will lease office space, but they are not going to pay salaries. The larger firms are downsizing their attorney-rosters. A Northwestern Law study estimates that the large firm sector has lost more than 15,000 attorney and staff positions since 2008.

Corporate legal departments are slashing legal expenses; anything that can be outsourced goes to India where there is a glut of cheap lawyers, eager to review documents for about $20 per hour.

Despite this grim outlook, law schools are reporting up to 93% of their graduates are, “known to be employed nine-months after graduation.” This statistic is fostered by the annual law school rankings published by the U.S. News & World Report.

Employment as a barista at Starbucks, however, is different than working in the legal profession. To improve their stats, some law schools have been known to temporarily hire a battalion of their recent grads for $20 an hour to work in the placement office. The U.S. News statistic does not take these distortions into account.

This grim theme was the focus of recent “over-the-top” marketing techniques employed by Lansing’s Cooley Law School. The correlation between a paucity of jobs and a downright glut of attorneys is well documented in the blogosphere.

It’s not all bad though. Students with a high motivation and grade point can persist with good jobs in their chosen field, even after they take off their rose-colored glasses.

In our free society, with its commerce, temptations and throw-away marriages, there will always be a strong demand for legal services.

The Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience, By Students, For Students has been called “a must for anyone attending or thinking about law school” by The Houston Lawyer, and is one book that can be found in the bookshelf of every law student. Law School Confidential is considered the “little black book” of law schools around the United States. Rather than being a simple guide book with study and exam prep tips, the Law School Confidential aims to be a complete guide to the entire law school experience. It walks the reader through what it feels like to be inside a law school – surviving the first year and the 1L exams, the summer law internship, the screening interviews come graduation. The author frequently uses the experiences of former law students to make its points clear, and at that it is quite effective. The book begins with a string of lengthy chapters on orienting the reader with the process of getting inside a law school. This “beginner’s guide” is exhaustive and well written, and does a good job of introducing law school and the law school lifestyle to the reader. However, one feels that more could be devoted to how to actually pick which law school to apply for. Some very useful information comes in the form of the grading curves in each individual school, and which school has pass fail grading available as an option. For most first year students, this information can be vital; the first year is easily the toughest. The book stresses the fact that the best, and the most useful tips and advice often come from fellow students and not professors. In most law schools, the 2L and the 3L students are the go to guys – the professors are often either too busy to entertain individual students, or are not open enough in sharing information. The strongest point of the book, and one that has made it so popular among most law students is its no nonsense, conversational tone. Most law books tend to throw legal mumbo jumbo at their readers – a tradition among lawyers themselves – but Law School Confidential keeps the verbose to a minimum, and focuses on delivering frank information that can be actually useful to those thinking of, or attending law school. Where this book fails is that it can be too basic sometimes, coming across as preachy. Some of the study tips are downright basic – things which most people have picked up in their undergrad years itself. Moreover, the book tries to push certain tactics which may not be applicable to everyone. Nonetheless, as the Houston Lawyer says, this book is definitely a must for anyone either thinking of, or attending law school. As the New York Law Journal put it, this is quite a “useful, worthwhile book”.

The Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience, By Students, For Students has been called “a must for anyone attending or thinking about law school” by The Houston Lawyer, and is one book that can be found in the bookshelf of every law student.

Law School Confidential is considered the “little black book” of law schools around the United States. Rather than being a simple guide book with study and exam prep tips, the Law School Confidential aims to be a complete guide to the entire law school experience. It walks the reader through what it feels like to be inside a law school – surviving the first year and the 1L exams, the summer law internship, the screening interviews come graduation. The author frequently uses the experiences of former law students to make its points clear, and at that it is quite effective.

The book begins with a string of lengthy chapters on orienting the reader with the process of getting inside a law school. This “beginner’s guide” is exhaustive and well written, and does a good job of introducing law school and the law school lifestyle to the reader. However, one feels that more could be devoted to how to actually pick which law school to apply for.

Some very useful information comes in the form of the grading curves in each individual school, and which school has pass fail grading available as an option. For most first year students, this information can be vital; the first year is easily the toughest.

The book stresses the fact that the best, and the most useful tips and advice often come from fellow students and not professors. In most law schools, the 2L and the 3L students are the go to guys – the professors are often either too busy to entertain individual students, or are not open enough in sharing information.

The strongest point of the book, and one that has made it so popular among most law students is its no nonsense, conversational tone. Most law books tend to throw legal mumbo jumbo at their readers – a tradition among lawyers themselves – but Law School Confidential keeps the verbose to a minimum, and focuses on delivering frank information that can be actually useful to those thinking of, or attending law school.

Where this book fails is that it can be too basic sometimes, coming across as preachy. Some of the study tips are downright basic – things which most people have picked up in their undergrad years itself. Moreover, the book tries to push certain tactics which may not be applicable to everyone.

Nonetheless, as the Houston Lawyer says, this book is definitely a must for anyone either thinking of, or attending law school. As the New York Law Journal put it, this is quite a “useful, worthwhile book”.