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Clark's purely economic analysis of the disincentives for taking public interest jobs fails to recognize that finding a public interest job opportunity has never been as simple as dropping a resume in a firm's box at the placement office. While the newly established mentor program referred to by Clark will assist those who have come to the law school with a specific interest in legal services, those of us interested in government nonprofit agencies and private public-interest firms no longer have a centralized source of information...
...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...
Clark has also pledged to form a committee of administrators, professors and students to advise him on the state of public-interest counseling at the school. But the committee has not been given a mandate broader than to provide advice about "placement problems faced by graduates who would like to go into public-interest work." And Clark has yet to announce the members of this committee, more than four weeks after the uproar began...
...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...