Negative Impact In The Legal Industry Is Fading Off, LawCrossing Has Found Over 90,000 Jobs Nationwide

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Pasadena, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) November 1, 2011 -- Pasadena, CA, November 1, 2011 - A negative impression seems to have made a effortless way in the minds of would-be law students. The national stories are making the law profession look like 'no longer a popular career'.

The legal industry is going through a crisis situation because the fresh law school graduates are finding it harder to get jobs and salaries have considerably dropped over the past few months. The aspiring students are giving it a thought whether to opt for law as a profession. Last year, nearly 81 percent students said they would apply to law school. In 2011, only 68 percent wish to apply. The class of 2010, nationwide, has had the highest unemployment rate since 1996 with only 68 percent of graduates being able to find jobs.

But the graduates from Boyd School of Law are bucking the trend of being unemployed. Nearly 93 - 94% of Students here have managed to find jobs since 2007. Out of the 146 Boyd graduates in 2010, nine are jobless and only two are in search of a job. Out of these about 20 percent entered judicial clerkships, nearly 9 percent work for government, and about 5 percent serve public interest or nonprofits.

LawCrossing lists nearly 90,500 jobs nationwide. It also lists nearly 24,000 jobs for attorneys, 6,900+ legal staff jobs, and nearly 20,000 jobs for law students and nearly 900 summer associate jobs. LawCrossing tracks down every legal job through an extensive research process. The main advantage that LawCrossing offers is that most of the jobs listed on the site are directly from employer websites. This means that there are opportunities listed from the biggest law firms, in-house jobs as well as for working with small-town law firms all over the country.

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