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Law Practice

May 19, 2010

Summer Opportunities Dry Up

The heyday of easily landing plum, high-paying summer law jobs is over. But that may not be such a bad thing. That's the message law school career counselors gave to anxious second-year students who, in the face of an economic downturn found themselves with shattered allusions and no summer job after the fall on-campus recruiting season.

By Sara Randazzo

Daily Journal Staff Writer

The heyday of easily landing plum, high-paying summer law jobs is over. But that may not be such a bad thing.

That's the message law school career counselors gave to anxious second-year students who, in the face of an economic downturn that crippled many Big Law summer programs, found themselves with shattered illusions and no summer job after the fall on-campus recruiting season...

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