Word: law
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...addition, students and the former public-interest staffers point out that the office was the only one at the Law School to provide career counseling as well as placement information. Students interested in public-interest opportunities need more than just application information as they choose to enter a field with substantially lower salaries and fewer well-known opportunities than the corporate route...
...Law School should help students deal with the problems they face as they enter the public-interest field. It should in fact make entering this area of law as easy as possible for its graduates, since they are taking on an much-needed function in a country where public-interest law has been stripped of most of its federal money though its constituency continues to grow...
Clark should immediately appoint the members of his new advisory committee so they can begin to review the situation. He should encourage this committee to seek new ways to help students and recent graduates make the transition to public-interest law...
Business drew the interest of 23 percent, while education had 16 percent, law and government work showed 14 percent each. Communications and medicine each were cited by 12 percent of those surveyed as their chief career interest. Engineering was the goal of 5 percent, while computers, environmental fields and the arts had 3 percent each...
...Unless they live in the city of Boston or Cambridge, both of which have local ordinances, there is no protection against discrimination," Cathcart adds. "If the bill passes and becomes law, then MCAD will have jurisdiction," he says...