Careers
Student with Designs on Fashion Law Gets Crash Course (and a Handbag) at Summer Institute in NYC
On Memorial Day, I piled out of a taxi in Brooklyn. It was the quintessential "20-something girl from the Midwest heads off to New York" opening scene to a movie — I dragged my huge suitcase up the front steps and struggled to figure out how to unlock the apartment doors with the set of…
I Accept: Job Offer Etiquette and Professional Standards
You’re probably well aware of job interview etiquette: be on time, dress professionally, make eye contact, ask relevant questions, and follow up post-interview. But you might not know that etiquette is also involved in the job offer and decision-making process, and it’s important to remember as you…
Law School Grades Not Most Important Hiring Criterion for Firms
If you’re dead set on making great grades in law school to land a job, you’re overlooking something even more important. At least, that’s what the National Jurist magazine found (There was a link here, but the page no longer exists) when it polled hiring partners at mid-sized law firms across the…
Salary Transparency
In the April 2011 National Association for Law Placement Bulletin, NALP Executive Director Jim Leipold discusses the push for more transparency in the reporting of legal employment data for recent law school graduates. I found the following statements about salary data to be the most interesting:…
Report Gauges Frequency, Value of Law School Experiential Learning Opportunities
A report about law school experiential learning was released last week by the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) and the NALP Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to research about legal careers. The 2010 Survey of Law School Experiential Learning asked practicing lawyers about the…
Jobs In and Out of the Law
Back on March 4 and March 18, I wrote in part about KU Law's "bar passage required" employment statistics. As an update, I thought it would be useful to also delve into KU Law and national statistics for other employment categories. While most law students enroll with the goal of practicing…
Compelling 'Accomplishment Stories' Key to Successful Job Interview
As spring semester finals wrap up, the majority of our 1Ls are preparing for clerkships with law firms, externships with state government agencies and nonprofits, clinical experiences such as the Judicial Clerkship Clinic, and summer classes. Last year, 80 percent of 1Ls reported summer employment…
Salaries for the KU Law Class of 2010
We have yet to receive national salary data for the Class of 2010. We can, however, discuss the number of students and the corresponding percentage of students in the KU Law Class of 2010 reporting salaries for jobs requiring bar passage and JD-preferred jobs.KU Law Class of 2020 Reporting…
National Employment Numbers for the Class of 2010
Last week, the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) issued a press release detailing general findings from employment information submitted by 192 U.S. law schools for the Class of 2010. Four key national observations:The overall employment rate of the Class of 2010 nine months after…
Practical Matters: Clinic Participation and Legal Experience
I’ll admit it: Walking into law school, I was pretty sure that every lawsuit consisted of attending depositions with former exercise instructors and discovering crucial evidence by examining an individual's shoes ("Legally Blonde," anyone?). I showed up for the first day of orientation in full-…