@ariesasthena, yes, that is true, but labor force participation rates have dropped the most among less-skilled workers. Lawyers and others with college and graduate degrees have certainly suffered in the Great Recession, but they’ve usually been impacted by taking lower-level jobs than they otherwise would.
@Demosthenes, sure, here is a link to the Harvard fellowships page: http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/fellowships/
Most of them are prestigious, hard to get and have been offered for years. They aren’t the UVA or GW fellowships that are just “filler” jobs. Even the ones that could appear to be “filler” jobs have application deadlines way, way before graduation, meaning that they aren’t just fillers that are handed out to the unemployed.
Again, if you go to Harvard- and I did, and I know current students and plenty of Class of 2008-2014 graduates- you always graduate with at least a few offers, unless for some reason you decide not to seek employment (usually if you’re heading for another degree, or have some 1 in a thousand problem that prevents you from working, or something like that).