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The decision to leave law is becoming a more common one, especially in urban firms. "Compared with five years ago, there are a significantly greater number of lawyers today who are not practicing law for a living," says Ward Bower, a partner at the legal consulting firm Altman & Weil in...
Harvard campus representative Linda D. Rottenberg '90 said yesterday she intends to publicize the program next February with a "Teach For America Day." The event will invite local school children to make a symbolic call for college students to enter the teaching profession.
Such events remind one that the art market in general, including the auction business, is not a profession. It is a trade, a worldwide industry whose gross turnover may be as high as $50 billion a year. Like other trades, it contains a large moral spectrum between dedicated, wholly honest...
But events at the Law School this fall suggest that many students there would like the legal profession to mean more than just yuppiedom. Students were enraged when Dean Robert C. Clark closed the school's public interest law counseling office over the summer. Hundreds attended a rally protesting his...
But do these future lawyers really think "L.A. Law" accurately depicts the legal profession?