Careers
Career Services Dean Answers Employment Questions from Prospective Students
Let’s address some questions about employment raised by prospective students over the last few weeks. When will employment statistics be available for KU Law’s most recent class? For each graduating class, KU Law measures employment at graduation and nine months after graduation. Each February…
Class of 2010 Employment Report
For each graduating class, KU Law measures employment at graduation and nine months after graduation. Each February, every law school in the country submits employment data for its most recent graduating class to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP). Each June, law schools receive a…
Career Services Programming Keeps Students at the Top of Their Game
The KU Law Office of Career Services prides itself on providing a wide variety of career-related programming and resources, and in being accessible, welcoming and helpful to students and graduates, regardless of their career aspirations. In the fall of 2009, the office sponsored 26 lunchtime…
The Power of Positive Psychology: Part Three
In the first two postings about Positive Psychology on Sept. 24 and Oct. 8, we introduced its application to lawyers and law students and briefly discussed some relatively simple steps that can lead to more satisfaction and sustainable happiness in law school and life in general. In addition to…
Career Services Issues Kudos to Successful Job Hunters
Long before the advent of the KU Law Blog and the Career Services weekly e-blast, our office produced a monthly newsletter in paper form (yes, really!) that included a "Career Services Kudos" section each March and April to recognize job-hunting successes. The positivity of the Kudos section jibed…
A Realistic Look at a Summer Legal Job Search
As many people know, there has been a heightened focus on the legal job market in the media lately. Most notably, the New York Times recently ran an article on the doom and gloom of the legal job market and the unemployment struggles of new law grads. As a 2L inching closer to my impending…
Changes to US News Employment Calculation Fail to Provide Necessary Nuance to Prospective Students
US News and World Report released its new law school rankings on Tuesday. While KU Law’s reputational scores among lawyers and judges improved, our overall ranking declined 12 spots to a tie for No. 79 among all law schools. KU Law ranked No. 38 among public law schools. KU Law did, however, rank…
Legal Career Options Day
Last night the Office of Career Services hosted its 8th Annual Legal Career Options Day from 5-7 pm in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. Each year, this high energy networking event exposes our students to a wide variety of employment opportunities available to law students and graduates. The…
Getting Involved at KU Law
KU Law affords students countless opportunities to tailor a legal education to meet your personality. Combined with a smaller to mid-sized student body and comparable to other reputable law schools, students receive the individualized attention foundational to a successful experience. Entering law…
The Changing Legal Marketplace
Last month, the ABA Journal posted an article by Patrick Lamb of Valorem Law Group, a Chicago-based litigation firm known for its alternative fee arrangements. In the midst of his observations about the future of the delivery of private legal services, Mr. Lamb references Richard Susskind’s 2008…