Texas Tries to ‘Launch’ Students into the Job Market
We’ve got another new program from a law school that is trying to help its students weather the difficult job market. The University of Texas School of Law is initiating the “Long Career Launch Program.” The goal of the program is to help Texas graduates find public interest work:
The University of Texas School of Law (UT Law) is proud to announce the Long Career Launch Program, which is designed to make it financially possible for our recent graduates to obtain legal work experience in unpaid internships while they are awaiting bar results and looking for permanent employment. Graduates who are selected to participate in the Program, which is generously funded by a grant from the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Foundation, will receive a $6,000 stipend to support work in an unpaid legal internship with a government agency or a 501(c)(3) public interest organization.
Unfortunately, the program only extends to internships lasting between August and November 2009. That is not quite enough time to help students that have been deferred until January 2010, and it is a woefully inadequate amount of time for students who have been deferred all the way until the fall of 2010.
But it is something.
Perhaps the most important part of the program is that it encourages public interest organizations to contact UT directly and post their job openings with the school. Ideally, this will lessen the transaction costs for UT law students trying to find appropriate public interest organizations so they can get their deferral stipend.
The Texas march on the top-14 continues.
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This is called padding employment %.
Will they help everyone find a wife, 3500 sq. ft., and a Lexis?
2, the state has abundunt supplies of all three. You don't find them - they find you.
What does Latham have to do with this?
1 - actually, it won't pad employment numbers, as the NALP numbers survey graduate employment as of February of the following year (so for the class of May 2009, it will survey employment as of Feb. 2010).
or abundant
Why is everyone in Texas so humongous?
The ship be sinking...
This program isn't new ... Texas has been paying recent grads to take public interest or government internships for a while now. Only difference is that, with Joe R. Long's money involved, the program must be renamed the "Long Career Launch Program."
This pads the "employed upon graduation" numbers.
5 - OK, but that doesn't stop the school from publishing its own numbers online or in Fall 2009 admissions packets. I remember doing an employment survey at my school as a prereq to graduation, the same day that we went in to get our commencement tix.
Elie: you're missing the point. Again.
UT is interested in HIDING GRADUATES in its "employed" numbers. That's why it's a three-month program. So that, at graduation, they can check the box as "employed."
The lack of analysis in non-Lat posts blows my mind sometimes.
can you use the 6k towards the 42k necessary for the UCLA LLM? because that truly would be the best of both worlds.
13, sometimes no analysis is better than piss-poor analysis.
Check out some of Mystal's "analysis" in his affirmative action or pro-Democrat posts.
Or read his analysis in the OJ post where he said it is ok for a double murderer to go free because a cop in the investigation was racist.
I hear Fried Frank is hiring
Looks like Texas is putting the "smart money" into its students
Who cares if they are padding employment numbers? As a deferred 3L , I would love for UVA to do something similar.
This is nice. UT pays students $6,000 to work for a NPO for a few months.
Compare to UCLA which will "steal" another $40,000 of loan money to give students a worthless dogshit-LLM.
Lesson learned? UCLA sucks.
Damn I wish my school offered something like this!
Why does everybody say Texas girls are hot when everybody from Texas is large and fat?
is there any doubt that the Latham guy is only 1 guy?
it's silent because he's busy today
I am obese.
--Texas guy
I was accepted at TTTexas...I opted for GULC
24: I'm sorry to hear that.
FLAW w/THESE PROGRAMS: THEY DON'T ADD JOBS OR CREATE VALUE. THEY ONLY ADD ANOTHER LAYER OF COMPETITION FOR EXISTING UNPAID INTERNSHIPS.
But hey, it's a nice way to shift recent grads "off the books."
Note that this program specifically excludes those with deferred offers per the program requirements. I thought it would be a great way to spend part of my deferral period and looked in to it; no dice.
Note that this program specifically excludes those with deferred offers per the program requirements. I thought it would be a great way to spend part of my deferral period and looked in to it; no dice.
hook 'em horns! i'm driving my lexis right now, with the top down in this gorgeous Texas weather (my westlaw is at the shop for repairs)
Why don't the firms just lower the first year salary to $1500 a month and call them in to work?
FYI
The Long Career Launch Program is open to December 2008, May 2009, and August 2009 graduates of the UT School of Law who will be taking the July 2009 bar exam. It is open only to those who have not yet secured permanent offers of employment; it is not open to those who have secured jobs but have deferred start dates
So 1 of the 3 paragraphs elie wrote is completely inaccurate and worthless. At least he's getting better!
Of course it excludes people who have a job, but won't be starting right away: "looking for permanent employment" is not the same as "has a job with a late start date."
Deferred graduates should be counting their blessings. A bar stipend and a likely job in a few months is a lot better than the uncertainty that is not having a job in this economy thanks to the lack of public interest hiring (by no means helped by the "public service stipend" bullshit).
19 -- UCLA is far better than Texas (in every program that the school offers). The fact that Texas Law is even close to UCLA Law represents a major flaw in the rankings methodology
Texas has too much money. UT is super rich. But at least they are trying to do something so I give them some props and UT is the only good school in Texas (and it's really highly ranked though I wouldn't be surprised if they bought some of that ranking with black gold money, but can't blame Texas. You know the east coast law schools buy and sell on their reputation of elitist new englanders for right or for wrong).
What's Texas' motto? Don't Blame Texas? Don't something Texas. I can't remember. I dated someone from Texas once who wouldn't stop reciting one liners about Texas. Needless to say this person didn't leave much of an impact except for annoyance since I can't remember anything said person, um, said. But it had more to do with their bland personality than Texas itself.
It's funny that UT is more well regarded and more highly ranked than any shit hole firm that is based out of Texas.
Does that mean that the students from highly ranked UT are in fact, dolts and can't make anything out of themselves?
Or does it mean that all the good students from highly ranked UT went to carpet baggers or left Texas?
You guys decide. But one thing is for sure, UT is more respected than the firms based out of Texas (it's also probably because Austin is way cooler than Houston or Dallas)
34 -- great analysis, you must be a UCLA prelaw or 1L.
- UT 3L
UT 3L: You must be unemployed ---- I'm at a top firm :)
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Y'all this sounds like a cover for socialism. I made my daughter go to Baylor Law School because I knew that any Texas school that hires a New York Jew is bound to turn my daughter into a commie. At Baylor, they're Baptists, and that's good enough for me.
37,
Quit fightin' with that city slicker. He's probably one of them homosexuals. Best to steer clear. You're welcome.
39/40: Isn't your mom also your aunt? Don't talk shit on Jewish people.
39/40: Isn't your mom also your aunt? Don't talk shit on Jewish people.
Please refer to me by my name, "The Texas Tiger" instead of by number. While you're at it, go to this link:
http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=satire&search=search
34 - How about any engineering program? You must have been a political science major.
And nobody at a respectible firm says they are "at a top firm". I am guessing you are a 0L who was rejected from UCI.