Law School Reality Archives - Page 29 of 37

Alternative Career Paths for Those With a J.D.

Law. com: “Faced with a tepid legal marketplace, law students and recent graduates (whether deferred, downsized or simply dismayed) need to rethink their career strategies to adapt to this brave new world. With significantly fewer entry-level associate positions available, now is the time to consider alternative opportunities that may not have initially appeared on your radar screen. Many attorneys, myself included, entered law school with little to no information about the realities of practicing law or even the range of positions that are available to smart folks who hold the almighty juris doctor degree.”

Law Jobs Will Be Harder to Come By

U.S. News & World Report: “In the midst of one of the gloomiest legal employment climates in history, a top research analyst warns: The worst is yet to come for some law students and recent graduates. Though official statistics will not be released until next May, the class of 2010 is likely to have lower raw employment numbers than the class before it, says Jim Leipold, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement. The employment for the class of 2011 will likely also be “very compromised,” he says.”

U of Michigan Law School Posts Lawyer Job in Mumbai, India

Above the Law: “Is this a ‘terrible job’ or ‘the inevitable future of the legal economy’? Note: those two answers aren’t mutually exclusive. The University of Michigan Law School — the 9th-best law school in America — is now posting job opportunities from India.”

In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That

New York Times: “One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average. But it’s not because they are all working harder. The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. The goal is to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.”

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Higher Education: Another Bubble about to Burst?

Musings from the Hinterland on the out of control cost of higher education and whether college is right for everybody: “while all this government money in the form of grants and loans is lining the pockets of the school proprietors, the students discover that what they’ve bought is nothing more than snake oil because they can’t earn enough money to justify the debt they’ve got to repay. Of course, the dirty secret to this is that the debt is owed to the U.S. government who has paid off the original lender via its earlier guarantee and now is hounding the hapless student for repayment. This important for two reasons. First, that check the government wrote is paid out of our money. Second, it was the lackadaisical, profligate Education policies which started the ball and caused the whole mess in the first instance, much as the relaxation of home loan standards during the 1990s started the ball leading to the subprime mortgage crisis.”