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, every law school in the country submits final employment data to the National Association for Law …

A response to ‘Is law school a losing game?’

On Jan. 8 the New York Times published a much-discussed article called “Is Law School a Losing Game?” The article’s author, David Segal, is critical of a law school system that he alleges overstates employment prospects to prospective students, all in the name of packing classrooms with students who pay high tuitions. The Lawrence Journal-World linked to the article on …

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 book, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services. In urging …

Tapping into social networks

Amanda Ellis, a legal recruiter based in Dallas, recently wrote an article for the Texas Bar Journal entitled The Big Three: Using Social Networking Sites to Connect with Employers and Clients. I’d like to focus on two techniques Ms. Ellis suggests to identify potentially helpful job hunting contacts. The first is a Facebook application called BranchOut. Let’s assume you want …

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 Kansas Bar Association, the Johnson County Bar Association, and the Wichita …

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 school, I have always hoped to work in Kansas City at either a corporation or law firm. Therefore, …