Infoporn: Where people go after law school

By Nicholas Sarwark | April 18, 2008 |

The National Law Journal has an interesting chart that breaks down where the class of 2005 went after graduation. Note the steep decline in large firm placement outside of the top 10 schools. Also, Yale sent almost half of it’s graduating class into judicial clerkships. That’s part of why the clerkship hunt sucks for the…

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Being a Happy, Healthy, Ethical Lawyer

By Nicholas Sarwark | October 10, 2007 |

Orin Kerr posted a question on the Volokh Conspiracy from a not yet employed 3L looking for career advice. There are good suggestions in the comments, but the best one is from “Anonobvious,” who linked to Patrick J. Schiltz’s law review article, “On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and…

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Brutal Bimodal Distribution

By Nicholas Sarwark | September 7, 2007 |

…or Why Law Students Get Ulcers. The Empirical Legal Studies blog has an excellent post analyzing a salary chart graphic for 2006 law graduates. Click through to see this shocking bit of infoporn and the analysis thereof. As an aside, I’ve spent about $200 in postage and burned through three reams of paper in the…

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