Newly-minted lawyers struggle to find jobs
In Shakespeare’s King Henry VI, a band of plotters eager to over throw the regime notes, “The first thing we must do is kill all the lawyers.”
However, these days, newly-minted lawyers are all but killing themselves in the struggle to find jobs after graduation…
So what’s an aspiring attorney to do? Dr. Ian Pilarczyk, Associate Director of the LLM Program at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, notes wryly that bankruptcy law would be a good area to specialize in, as would eldercare and environmental law. He added that graduates should consider non-traditional uses of law, such as mediation rather than litigation.
