What I’ve learned since is that few pieces of advice for unemployed law graduates are more likely to infuriate them than the suggestion that they “volunteer” with some prospective employer in order to “get a foot in the door.” This advice is routinely given by clueless baby boomers to young adults, without those giving it realizing that the recipients of their wisdom have often been “volunteering” for years already, both before and during law school, with the idea being at some point they would actually get paid for doing legal work (that point being when they could no longer take out student loans to pay for luxuries such as food and shelter).
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“Consider that other classic bit of advice for unemployed law grads: that they should “network.” Is it even necessary to...
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If I went to law school, I wouldn’t even be doing it with the ultimate goal of practicing law, necessarily, which makes...
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