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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...
...help widen the horizons of law students, the Law School funds four student-run public service organizations--The Harvard Defenders, The Prison Legal Assistance Project The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and Students for Public-Interest...
...under a program called the Fellowship for Public Interest Law, third-year students pledge 1 percent of their next year's income to support their classmates in public-interest law jobs...
Many students also emphasize the fact that most public-interest employers only conduct interviews in the spring. "It's a big gamble," says Barbour. "By waiting for a public-interest interview in the spring, you are giving up a position in a law firm that you could have secured in the fall...
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...