EriksHeadGear wrote:
I graduated from Law School in 2008 and I started a job right away. I feel lucky - the market fell away very quickly after I started working and a lot of the people I went to school with just aren't working in law. I am a litigation lawyer dealing mostly in family and criminal work which has, by and large, faired well during the recession.


One of my girlfriends from uni (we graduated 05) luckily wound up in the same situation as you - because, she says, the three things people will always do and need lawyers for is commit crime, get divorced and die. It's crazy, she advertised at the local college for LPC students because she had a volunteer job that needed doing and thought nobody would want to because it was unpaid and a really menial (though large) task advertised for a really shit volunteer job doing some filing at the local LPC course. She was inundated. They were so desperate to get any law firm at all on their CVs because internships have dried up.

And heck. I have a law degree I'm not doing a thing with