Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Jobs of Their Dreams (or Their Nightmares)?

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama

Here's a research project for you.

Are you attending a hard to get into law school (notice that I did not use the descriptive words "good" or "best" or "tier x")?

If yes, what percentage of the Class of 2006 graduates took positions initially in large law firms or did so after a judicial clerkship?

What percentage of the Class of 2006 dreamed of such positions when surveyed during their first year of law school?

Is there a significant disparity between these two percentages?

If so, what steps has the law school taken to remedy this?

What does it mean if there was no survey taken to find out what the law school's students wanted to do with their legal education and who they wanted to represent ?

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