Thanks To Coronavirus, The Future Is Looking Bleak For Law School Graduates

This is kind of like what happened to 2010 graduates -- but worse.

By Staci Zaretsky

onApril 20, 2020 at 2:14 PMApril 20, 2020 at 2:10 PM

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The job market is beyond grim, and then they are in this no man’s land.

— New York State Bar Association President Hank Greenberg, commenting on the current employment opportunities (or lack thereof) in the legal sector and law school graduates’ inability to take the bar exam on time due to the coronavirus outbreak. While New York has postponed the July bar exam for two months, “It’s far from certain where we’ll be in early September,” Greenberg says.

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Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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