For Jobless Lawyers, Plan B Includes Good Works

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/16/lawyer.layoff.public/index.html
Author: Chen, Stephanie
Source: CNN.com
Year: 2009

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Abstract:

It was the best of times in 2004, when attorney Dave Dineen graduated from Boston University School of Law and landed a job at a top Massachusetts corporate firm, Foley Hoag LLP.

By 2007, the National Association for Law Placement was reporting the most promising year in two decades. Nearly 92 percent of graduating attorneys were employed, and the median starting salary at private practices had increased by $13,000 --to a total of $108,500 a year.

But times have changed.