Trouble with the Law as a Profession

The Economist:  “Graduates’ chances in the job market have worsened since the ‘great purge’ of 2009, when firms laid off young lawyers and withdrew job offers. The National Law Journal says that the 250 biggest firms cut their numbers of attorneys by 4% in 2009 and were projected to cut by another 1.1% in 2010, making for the worst two-year period in the 33 years of the journal’s surveys.”