Sentences with phrase «law graduates»

These associates are often recent law graduates who are likely to be far less efficient than a more senior lawyer.

As a result, a large number of recent law graduates are unemployed, under - employed, or are working in settings that do not require a bar license.

A positive development in federal law has been the addition of loan forgiveness and income - based repayment opportunities for law graduates.

A strong trend is setting up incubator centres for new law graduates.

So leading law firms created the associate - partner model as a mechanism to hire and train law graduates who could help the firm keep up with demand.

The section's website also provides other data about law graduates.

And these masses of unemployed law graduates are going to make us face an ugly truth we've been avoiding for years: we're doing a terrible job of training our future lawyers.

Most law graduates need to repay student loans, which can provide an additional challenge to taking public service employment upon graduation.

Consider the threat of competition from both law and non law graduates and how you can differentiate yourself.

Younger women law graduates are often surprised when they face challenges for which their gender equal university experience did not prepare them.

And that was back in the 1990s, when even halfway - decent law graduates could wind up on a six - to seven - figure partnership track.

His solution was to use law graduates who had been unable to become trainees and for them to act on a pro bono basis.

What I do know is that more data to compare law graduate competence, and a greater selection, can only lead to higher quality recruits.

(b) set up or certify a parallel Practical Legal Training Course that provides law graduates who could not obtain articles the chance to earn an equivalent certification in practical legal skills training.

• Many salaries have not kept up with the increasing cost of living, particularly considering the student debt most law graduates accumulate having to attend law school out - of - province.

The answer is competition for the best and brightest law graduates.

Female law graduates, for instance, can expect to earn 28 % less than men at the start of their careers.

Like recent law graduates, they still need to build on their experience and competency.

However, as a relatively new law graduate, he had spent quite a number of months on his job search without a lot of success.

Several major developments have left some lawyers, especially each new generation of law graduates, unable to conceive of any other option but settlement.

If there are fewer good long term legal jobs, there will be less demand for law graduates, which will inevitably continue to put pressure on law schools.

As one law graduate who did not attend certain classes, having failed none of them, I can say there was nothing passive about my exam preparation.

Our partners are Harvard Law graduates with over twenty years combined experience representing and advising cannabis businesses and individuals at the local, state, and federal levels.

A Harvard law graduate with a masters degree from the London School of Economics, Wood now presides over what could be the biggest case of her career.

A month later, the Ford Foundation put the group of Yale law graduates in the same room as the group of New York lawyers who had incorporated the Natural Resources Defense Council, and essentially forced a merger of the two parties.

The task force lists a series of external factors that have driven it to these conclusions, including a rapidly building wave of new law graduates on the horizon, a new emphasis on skills development in law school curricula, the dwindling willingness of lawyers and law firms to participate in the process, and the law society's own practical constraints.

But there are some Canadian law graduates from this class of 2010, my graduating year, who are now completing the LPP program 5 years after graduation.

But a decent number of them are, and many law graduates mired in debt gravitate to these firms for the promise of big salaries to help them pay down their loans, even if they end up working elsewhere.

Since law graduates at more elite law schools tend to have higher LSAT scores, and attending an elite law school does not predict future high performance, the predictive power of law school grades within law firms is probably attributable to higher levels of motivation.

The Gonzaga Loan Repayment Assistance Program is available for Gonzaga Law graduates working in public service across the country and around the world.

The Executive Committee of the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society (NSBS) held a public hearing to discuss whether TWU law graduates should be admitted to the Bar society.

Like I said: just tell us how many international law graduates managed to secure an articling in Ontario over the last 5 years.

High graduating numbers have not dampened the students» employment prospects, however, as law graduates enjoy the third lowest unemployment rates among recent graduates, at 4 %.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

In my job search, I spoke to many McGill University law graduates who work in New York, some through introductions by friends and others through a simple e-mail.

And more law graduates are coming.

The hidden girl behind Eltoria is me, Simone Partner a 24 year old law graduate from the University of Reading who lives near Bath (I must also mention that I am a twin!).

Focusing on the practical tips and tricks that help turn recent law graduates into efficient, exceptional practicing lawyers, we relay key lessons and insight earned from years of Biglaw practice at the highest level.

«By prejudging our future law graduates not on their qualifications but the community covenant they agree to abide by while students at TWU, the law society has infringed on the human rights of TWU and its students.»

How are new law graduates going to learn to practice law?

Post-Graduation Goals According to the ABA law graduate employment data, more than half of employed law students choose to work at law firms, and I would assume that only a small subset of the 14.6 % who choose to go into «Business & Industry» are entrepreneurs.

Numerical testing is most common for banking and accountancy graduate jobs whereas law graduate schemes are more like to focus on verbal reasoning.

At the time Georgetown Law said: «New career paths as legal solutions architects are emerging that require law graduates to think differently about law.

«First - generation lawyer» generally refers to law students and recent law graduates whose parents who did not attend college.