Even Harvard Law Students Have Job Woes

Think you've got it tough? You could be a student at Harvard Law School ("HLS"), where big firm recruitment is down 20 percent, according to the Harvard Crimson.


"As a Harvard student, you feel entitled to get a job, and you ignore these dire reports on CNN," one student told the Crimson earlier this year after failing to get a job offer during HLS' recruiting season. "You think that things will work out like every other year."

It turns out that changes in the legal industry—smaller summer associate classes, deferred start dates and associate layoffs -- are also hurting the cream of the Ivy League crop.

HLS administrators and experts hinted to the Crimson that the school might push back the start of its fall recruiting season. And starting this spring, HLS will host a second recruitment period for "firms whose outlooks have changed" in anticipation of an economic recovery.

For one HLS professor and director of the school's legal profession program, smaller associate classes and increased outsourcing of traditional associate work will eventually lead to lower entry-level salaries.


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Bob Schaller


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