Monday, September 24, 2007

The Dark Side of the Legal Job Market: from WSJ

Here is an interesting article from today's WSJ...

The Dark Side of the Legal Job Market
By Amir Efrati on Law School

"For elite law-school grads, prospects have never been better. But the majority of JDs are suffering from long-term economic trends are suppressing pay and job growth. The result: Graduates who don't score at the top of their class are struggling to find well-paying jobs to make payments on law-school debts that can top $100,000. Some are taking temporary contract work, reviewing documents for as little as $20 an hour, without benefits. And many are blaming their law schools for failing to warn them about the dark side of the job market.
That's the subject of a page-one WSJ story this morning..."

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