Job scope for Law grads in USA

 

JUNE 29, 2012 Friday  More Law Grads Take Jobs That Don't Require Law Licenses Only 66% of the jobs landed by 2011 U.S. law-school graduates required a law license, the lowest rate since the National Association for Law Placement began tracking that metric in the 1980s, according to the Wall Street Journal. With the job market for lawyers showing increasing weakness, more than a dozen lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. in recent months accusing law schools of misleading prospective students by advertising that a high percentage of their graduates were employed, without specifying whether the jobs required a law degree, the Journal says. Source: With Profession Under Stress, Law Schools Cut Admissions