Eric Biber and 2L Tam Ma Say Federal Law Will Boost Loan Assistance Program

National Law Journal, June 22, 2009 by Karen Sloan
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Officials and students at Berkeley’s law school spent the past academic year adjusting the school’s assistance program in light of the new federal law, said Eric Biber, an assistant professor and member of the financial aid committee. The school can afford to be more generous with its own money because of the infusion of federal assistance…. “Our goal was to provide better coverage for our students in a way we could sustain in the long term,” Biber said.

“I don’t know that the information has really trickled out to students,” Ma said. “The students who are really interested in it are going out and doing their own research.”