Harvard Law School

Demosthenes49
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:31:02 +0000

@HappyAlumnus: You seem to be under the impression that repeating something over and over makes it true. Not everyone at HLS who wants one gets a job. Not everyone gets a BigLaw job. Writing those people off as having something “seriously, seriously wrong” doesn’t change that.

School-funded jobs are almost always the same: a year-long internship with a PI organization during which the school provides a stipend. Harvard’s are [no different](http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/legal_education_and_admissions_to_the_bar/council_reports_and_resolutions/March2015CouncilMaterials/2015_harvard_yale_letter_re_schoolfund_positions.authcheckdam.pdf). They started during the recession when they counted as full employment for the ABA and USNWR. The ABA reclassified those into their own category (USNWR reduced the credit given), at which point law schools promptly halved (though did not eliminate) them. [url=http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwhiteboard/2016/05/changes-in-reporting-and-classifying-of-law-school-funded-positions-result-in-decline-in-number-of-g.html]Harvard[/url], to its credit, only dropped by about 20%.

I’ve seen no evidence that HLS hires its graduates straight out of law school into teaching positions.