Word: sayes
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These days, however, many lawyers and educators say that kind of public interest spirit does not translate into more legal service work after graduation, as it did a decade...
...they reach the same conclusion. Experts say 80 percent of the nation's current legal needs go unfulfilled, and they say the corporate lawyers fresh out of law school are not doing enough to meet that demand...
Only about 6 percent of Law School graduates actually pursue full-time public interest careers. But Harvard's staffers say the success of clinical programs should also be measured by how they influence the 69 percent of graduates who enter private firms, where they can do substantial pro bono work...
...time, clinical programs were influencing people, and had a substantial impact," says Robert L. Hill, Aetna Life and Casualty's assistant vice president for law and public affairs. "But now people are on the `fast track' and say, `too much work to do, have to get ahead, have to pay back student loans.' So they're not doing as much pro bono as they used...
With recruitment visits from high-paying firms always the topic of fall campus conversation, few schools can overpower the lures of lucrative corporate work, experts say. Harvard's clinical instructors note that most of the 6 percent who actually pursue full-time public service probably had that career in mind before they came to law school...