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June Thompson, the director of placement at the Law School, says that of 513 members of the Class of '84, 14 were involved in public interest and legal services, 25 were working for federal, state or local government, 110 were doing judicial clerkships and 353 were working for law firms or corporations. Statistics for the class of 1985 were not available, she says...
Melanie R. Kersey, the adminstrator of the National Association for Law Placement in Washington D.C., compared the national figures for the Class of '74 and the Class of '83. Over the nine years the percentage of graduates in public-interest fields dropped from 5.3 to 3.1, those in government dropped from 16.2 to 11.5 and those in private practice, business and industry rose from 61.4 to 71.2 percent, she says...
...very, very easy to get a placement in a private law firm," says Chuck Milligan, a third-year law student. "They come here and take all the initiative. For busy students, it takes a lot of energy to pursue other avenues...
Milligan says the placement office has tried to convince private firms to delay their interviews until the spring. "Still, a lot of people worry about being trapped if they go into public-interest," says Milligan...
Election to the Review, one of the nation's most prestigious legal journals, is considered a significant achievement and a major advantage in professional placement. Competition for Review slots is described as intense...