Sentences with phrase «after law school graduation»

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After graduation from law school, Conway went to work for the colorful and outspoken Republican pollster Frank Luntz and eventually started her own polling business.

After graduation, I went to law school and became an attorney.

However, even after compulsory attendance laws were enshrined nationwide by 1917, it wasn't until 1930 that half of Americans set foot in a high school, and not until 1950 that the high school graduation rate struck 50 percent, according to Zimmerman.

Without a doubt, law school students have higher than average debt after graduation compared to the rest of the nation.

Generally, lenders require that you apply for a bar loan in your last semester of law school or up to 12 months after graduation, and that you sit for the bar within 12 months of graduation.

After graduation, she earned a JD from Harvard Law School and launched a successful career in corporate lLaw School and launched a successful career in corporate lawlaw.

After graduation from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998 and the Arizona State University School of Law in 2001, where she served as co-executive editor of Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science and Technology, she clerked for the Hon. John C. Gemmill on the Arizona Court of Appeals.

He returned to law school at Arizona State, but after graduation, patent work at law firms was not a good fit.

These are essential skills and areas of knowledge that may have formerly been learned on the job as a young associate, but now that so many recent graduates are hanging out their own shingles immediately after graduation and firms are seeking young lawyers who need less training and can hit the ground running, law schools need to pick up the slack and provide this education.

Historically, the mainstream, established law firms and corporations required superior grades from a top - ranked law school and, preferably, law review membership and a federal judicial clerkship after graduation.

If many faculty members have been too slow to recognize the professional purposes of a law degree, many students — and the law firms that eventually hire them — have been too quick to turn law school into a jurisprudential version of the college football season and draft, with too much attention focused on what comes after graduation, not before.

I remember plenty of attorneys who left our metropolitan law school after graduation and returned to their rural hometowns to open up shop.

Many undergraduate students evaluate their options after graduation, and consider doing graduate work or professional education like law school.

Law student blog The Shark takes issue with a UCLA law school researcher's study (first reported at the ABA Journal) which concluded that people who fail the bar exam fare worse than even college graduates in the first five years after graduation but spring back later in their careeLaw student blog The Shark takes issue with a UCLA law school researcher's study (first reported at the ABA Journal) which concluded that people who fail the bar exam fare worse than even college graduates in the first five years after graduation but spring back later in their careelaw school researcher's study (first reported at the ABA Journal) which concluded that people who fail the bar exam fare worse than even college graduates in the first five years after graduation but spring back later in their careers.

During law school summers and after graduation, I practiced in various areas of law as a Marine, including trial defense, family law, as a deputy staff judge advocate, and on deployment as a garrison and strategic advisor.

After graduation from the Loyola School of Law, David joined his mother, Judy Cates, now a Justice on the Fifth District Appellate Court of Illinois, and later became a partner in the Cates Law Firm.

He enrolled in Vanderbilt University Law School and, after graduation, went to work for the just - opened Legal Aid office in Nashville.

If you have clerked somewhere during law school, there is a chance they will offer you a job after graduation.

After his graduation from law school, Mr. Farah worked for a well respected civil litigation firm in Beaumont, Texas for over two years.

Mr. Farah moved to Houston, Texas shortly after graduation to attend law school.

Opperman became an editor at West shortly after his graduation from law school in 1951 and eventually rose to the top position.

Unemployed law school graduates need to stay motivated and keep their job search active during the six months after graduation.

But so too are lots of nonminorities who look to law school as a way to keep options open, as an entry to a career in the movies or business or to make tons of money, only to discover the harsh reality after graduation that law school isn't necessarily a ticket to financial success.

Almost a year after graduation in 2011, only 55 percent of law school grads held full - time, long - term positions requiring a legal degree and bar passage; fewer than half of graduates found jobs in private practice (good - bye marbled lobbies and fancy associate titles!).

More and more media attention has been given to the fact that for the past 15 years or so, too many law schools have been accepting too many students, and teaching them too little while charging them too much — hence, churning out too many grads with too little opportunity in the legal job market awaiting them after the buzz of graduation day fades away.

It pays to practice productive responses to envy during law school, because after graduation, when one's peer group and the metrics of success become more amorphous, feelings of envy persist.

Nine months after graduation, only 20.5 percent of 2011 graduates of the University of the District of Columbia's law school were employed in full - time jobs requiring a J.D.

After graduation from Clemson University in 2001, he attended the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

After graduation, she received her Juris Doctor Degree from Northwestern University California School of Law.

After graduation from Clemson, Julie worked for a United States Senator before starting law school.

Shortly after his graduation from college, Mr. Grabel moved to Lansing, Michigan, to attend the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, where he graduated with honors and in the top ten percent of his class.

After graduation from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he tried his first case as a student with the local Public Defender, he was awarded a judicial clerkship with a state trial court judge.

In its ranking publication, Above the Law states ``... the law remains the only profession in which, even decades after graduation, your peers actually care about where you went to school.&raqLaw states ``... the law remains the only profession in which, even decades after graduation, your peers actually care about where you went to school.&raqlaw remains the only profession in which, even decades after graduation, your peers actually care about where you went to school.»

After graduation, Joe began his legal career in the Live Oak public defender's office, and shortly thereafter married his law school sweetheart and Live Oak native, Jackie Jo.

After his publication of the note and graduation from law school, Stevens went on to practice with several law firms in Philadelphia.

After his graduation from Osgoode Hall Law School, he spent more than a decade in private practice in Toronto.

After graduation from law school, Dennis was admitted to the Tennessee Bar and began representing disability claimants at all administrative levels and also participated in representation before the U.S. District Court.

After graduation and successfully passing the Oregon Bar, and attempting to build a solo practice part - time (I remained a community college administrator while attending law school at night at Lewis & Clark College Northwestern School of Law), I accepted a position as the first Director of Client Relations at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt — a Portland, Oregon - based law firm of approximately 150 attornelaw school at night at Lewis & Clark College Northwestern School of Law), I accepted a position as the first Director of Client Relations at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt — a Portland, Oregon - based law firm of approximately 150 attoschool at night at Lewis & Clark College Northwestern School of Law), I accepted a position as the first Director of Client Relations at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt — a Portland, Oregon - based law firm of approximately 150 attoSchool of Law), I accepted a position as the first Director of Client Relations at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt — a Portland, Oregon - based law firm of approximately 150 attorneLaw), I accepted a position as the first Director of Client Relations at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt — a Portland, Oregon - based law firm of approximately 150 attornelaw firm of approximately 150 attorneys.

Most students will take a professional responsibility class at some point in law school and all will face ethical challenges in the practice of law after graduation.

Over the last couple of years our Partners gave lectures on different areas of law to students at Kyiv - Mohyla Academy, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and Lviv National Ivan Franko University within the framework of the Arzinger Academy Project (established in September 2010), at summer law schools and as part of training courses conducted by the Students» League of the Ukrainian Bar Association and thus prepared young professionals to practical work awaiting them after graduation.

Summer associates — typically law students between their second and third years of law school hoping for offers of full - time employment after graduation — often get paid by the week at a rate pegged to the first - year associate salary.

During law school, he took up karate, and continued after graduation until he was awarded a black belt in 1991.

The guides also include skills that would be useful to gain during law school if a student is seeking to practice in that area after graduation.

When we take temporary employment into account, it appears that approximately 45 percent of 2010 graduates of this particular top - 50 law school had real legal jobs nine months after graduation.

Craig started his legal career with the Federal Government, as he served, during law school, as a law clerk in the U.S. Department of Justice, and then after graduation, as a judicial clerk for Judge Lawrence E. Gray of the U.S. Department of Labor.

After graduation from law school, Karen was a civil rights litigator whose practice focused primarily on employment discrimination, police brutality and housing discrimination.

The group has sent the information to top law schools around the country, encouraging students to take this demographic data into account when choosing where to work after graduation.

If you have already graduated or aren't ready to attend law school right after graduation, consider working as a legal assistant (also known as a paralegal) for a couple of years prior to law school.

With regard to law school, Monahan and Burgess urge students not to simply expect a job after graduation.

To that end, I've prepared several easy - to - grasp visualizations about law school applications, debt, employment after graduation, and the current crisis in the legal market.