Sixth months after graduation, only half of 2020 college graduates were employed
CNBC — The college class of 2020 entered one of the most hostile labor markets in recent history. During the first year of the Covid pandemic, employment decreased across the country. By many measures, college graduates fared best during this period, but as time passes, research is capturing just how difficult conditions are for young workers. The…
Read More about Sixth months after graduation, only half of 2020 college graduates were employedRecent University of Houston Law Center graduate Samantha Casas honored by Texas Access to Justice Commission
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Thousands of new attorneys were sworn in to the State Bar of Texas recently including 2021 UH Law Center graduate Samantha Casas, recipient of the Law Student Pro Bono Award. Held on November 15, the Virtual New Lawyers Induction Ceremony welcomed the 2,147 lawyers who passed the July 2021 bar exam,…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW — D.C. Hiegert, a 2021 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law, will serve as a 2022 Skadden Fellow. Considered the most prestigious and competitive award for public interest law graduates, Skadden Fellowships provide two years of funding for lawyers pursuing public-interest law projects of their own design.…
Read More about University of Kansas Law student D.C. Hiegert selected for Skadden fellowshipPenn Law celebrates the graduation of LLM students from 20 countries
PENN LAW — After weathering an academic year marked by unprecedented challenges of social distancing, frequent COVID-19 testing, and hybrid learning, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Spring Start LLM Class of 2021 will be honored at a graduation ceremony on December 10, 2021. “Despite the challenges in planning an event during the pandemic, we felt…
Read More about Penn Law celebrates the graduation of LLM students from 20 countriesRecent Rutgers Law graduate Emahunn Campbell selected for ACLU fellowship
RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — Emahunn Campbell RLAW ’21 is the first Rutgers Law School graduate to be awarded the prestigious Karpatkin Fellowship from the ACLU, which will allow him to serve in a yearlong fellowship working in the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program. Campbell was chosen as this year’s recipient out of over 100 applicants. The program challenges racial discrimination and…
Read More about Recent Rutgers Law graduate Emahunn Campbell selected for ACLU fellowshipWillamette Law celebrates students who passed the bar amid the pandemic
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — During a traditional year, Willamette Law bustles with the sounds of students conversing in the halls, lectures being taught and events being held throughout the building. Since March 2020, when the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic, the hustle and bustle has dulled to a whisper. In fact, over the past…
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ABA JOURNAL — Two law schools outside the T14 have landed on a list of schools with the highest percentage of alumni going to the nation’s 10 highest-grossing law firms. The schools are the University of Texas School of Law, ranked No. 8 on a list compiled by GradReports, and Notre Dame Law School, ranked No. 9,…
Read More about A look at law schools and law firm hiringLarge firms are now hiring a larger percentage of law graduates
ABA JOURNAL — Larger firms of 250 or more lawyers are hiring a higher percentage of law grads as class sizes stagnate and law firms grow. Nearly 10% of all law school graduates in the class of 2012—4,600 new lawyers—ended up working full time at law firms with more than 250 lawyers, Bloomberg Law reports in a…
Read More about Large firms are now hiring a larger percentage of law graduatesPodcast: Legal experts discuss arguments for and against diploma privilege for law practice licensing
BLOOMBERG LAW — In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, five U.S. jurisdictions opted to suspend their July 2020 bar exams. Instead, these jurisdictions granted licensure to new attorneys through “diploma privilege.” That’s the practice of admitting new attorneys to the state bar, and allowing them to practice law, contingent on their graduation from an ABA-accredited…
Read More about Podcast: Legal experts discuss arguments for and against diploma privilege for law practice licensingRecent Notre Dame Law graduate Daniela Johnson Restrepo awarded permanent court of arbitration fellowship
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Daniela Johnson Restrepo ’21 J.D. joined the Permanent Court of Arbitration as a fellow November 8. She is the first J.D. graduate from Notre Dame Law School to be selected for this prestigious placement, which is based at the Peace Palace in The Hague. The PCA Fellowship Program offers recent…
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