Over a third of those for whom employment information was available began their careers in non-firm settings. A total of 1,377 new graduates were reported to be unemployed and seeking work. An additional 399 were neither working nor seeking jobs. The following was written by Steve Lawrence, Jr., a Duke graduate who received his law degree from the University of Chicago. The law student must be ready and willing to meet one of the biggest challenges that he will ever face.
Law school is a full-time business.
By full-time, I mean a minimum of 10 hours a day, every day of the week. It is quite exhaustive, particularly during the first year. There is a new vocabulary to learn, and a new way of thinking. As the faculty is fond of saying, law students also have to learn to read for the first time in their lives. This point came across to me the first day of law school.