Ideas for Law Students and Recent Graduates Entering the Real World
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When lawyers, judges, and teachers got together at the 20th Anniversary Conclave on the Education of Lawyers in Charlottesville last April (see http://www.vsb.org/site/members /20th-anniversary-conclave), they discussed a myriad of issues facing the legal profession. One recurrent issue was the relative lack of job opportunities for the young lawyers that the law schools are turning out. By one estimate, law schools are graduating 45,000 students per year and there are legal jobs available for only 25,000 of them. With that in mind, Virginia Lawyer asked the deans of Virginia’s law schools for their thoughts on how students and recent graduates could better prepare themselves for the tight job market. The deans who responded offered a variety of advice, but it mostly comes down to: be active, don’t wait for a job to find you. Though some deans described it with different words, they all highly recommended “networking” as essential—build relationships, participate in local bar associati
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When lawyers, judges, and teachers got together at the 20th Anniversary Conclave on the Education of Lawyers in Charlottesville last April (see http://www.vsb.org/site/members /20th-anniversary-conclave), they discussed a myriad of issues facing the legal profession. One recurrent issue was the relative lack of job opportunities for the young lawyers that the law schools are turning out. By one estimate, law schools are graduating 45,000 students per year and there are legal jobs available for only 25,000 of them. With that in mind, Virginia Lawyer asked the deans of Virginia’s law schools for their thoughts on how students and recent graduates could better prepare themselves for the tight job market. The deans who responded offered a variety of advice, but it mostly comes down to: be active, don’t wait for a job to find you. Though some deans described it with different words, they all highly recommended “networking” as essential—build relationships, participate in local bar associati
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