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Law School Grades: From Inflation to Addition

June 22, 2010 | Filed Under Legal Employment, Law School 

A tough legal job market apparently calls for desperate measures.

The New York Times reports that Loyola Law School in Los Angeles is taking direct action to make its graduates appear more marketable. This is the “other” Loyola.

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.

The article actually continues with a good recitation of the various grade philosophies and alternatives used by many law schools.

But to call the current legal job market “competitive” certainly misses the mark. When strong graduates from highly-ranked schools find nothing available, it’s more like a job desert.

Good luck to all law school graduates this year, including those at the western Loyola. They started law school under a different set of assumptions about a lot of things. And now many have at least 100,000 reasons to wonder whether they made the right career decision.

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Law School Grads: A Losing Ticket?

January 18, 2010 | Filed Under Law School, Associate Life 

The New York Times took a Sunday Style look at the plight of law students and newly minted lawyers. (There’s also a mention of the new ABC drama about new lawyers, The Deep End. I’ll spare my 2 cents; watch the trailer for yourself).

A challenging hiring environment is not news to the legal industry; when it hits the Sunday papers it is noteworthy. The article comes with a video that profiles “deferrals,” new lawyers who have been pushed back a year by their firms, and sent to do a year-long externship in public interest law.

The classic line from the video via the lips of a candid new counsel:

“I just graduated from law school; I know me, I wouldn’t hire me as my lawyer at this point.”

That line is worth about 10,000 words as to the state of the law for new lawyers. And when clients see something like this, it informs why the situation will likely not change soon, or ever go back to the glory days of hiring large numbers of new lawyers at mid six-figure salaries.

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