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Mafioso:

--- Quote from: 99.96Brah on April 08, 2014, 09:22:15 pm ---Apparently only 15% of students undertaking Melbourne's JD got a grad job

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Source?

Hancock:
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/graduates-shun-legal-profession-20120519-1yxt0.html


--- Quote ---There was ''no way'' law firms could accommodate all the graduates from Australia's 31 law schools, La Trobe University's director of undergraduate studies, Heather King, said. ''It's a well-acknowledged fact that 40-50 per cent will not end up in a traditional law practice.''
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http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/news/jobs-scarce-for-legal-grads

http://www.afr.com/p/national/law_degree_the_new_arts_degree_students_1K7jPfP5dRkaZGVazcMAEP


--- Quote ---The startling increase in the number of law graduates has been driven by the popularity of post-graduate law courses, where the number of students completing their courses increased 330 per cent from 1635 in 2001 to 7036 in 2012, The Australian Financial Review analysis of university course data shows.
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--- Quote ---Law students and graduates are now being told to broaden their career prospects beyond becoming lawyers. Carolyn Evans, the dean of Melbourne University’s law school, said: “What I would say is that people should be aware when they go into law school, they’re going in at a time of rapid change.

“There is structural change in the legal profession and uncertainty in the Australian economy,” Professor Evans said. “[Students] can’t assume because they have a law degree, they’ll have a job as a lawyer.”
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More:
Students need the truth on legal job prospects:
http://www.afr.com/p/national/students_need_the_truth_on_legal_kSjipIEFZfz8QSXvDr3fHN


It's no conspiracy theory that getting a law grad role in this economic climate is difficult. Also, all I had to type into google was 'law graduate roles australia' and all of this + more came up.

j-awad11:

--- Quote from: BasicAcid on April 08, 2014, 10:43:13 pm ---I'm sick of people spitting out alarming figures like this without any sort of evidence at all. These comments can actually have a large impact on someone deciding their own future and it'd be an absolute disappointment if you found out you had made a decision based on false information.

Give us a source please.

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I agree. I am aware that there are many more jobs out there for law grads that are not in "traditional law firms", but I would just like to hear whether the job prospects are any different if you graduate with a JD over a LLB.

j-awad11:

--- Quote from: Hancock on April 08, 2014, 11:24:39 pm ---
http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/news/jobs-scarce-for-legal-grads

It's no conspiracy theory that getting a law grad role in this economic climate is difficult. Also, all I had to type into google was 'law graduate roles australia' and all of this + more came up.

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Perhaps you could find figures for Victoria, not SA?

brenden:

--- Quote from: j-awad11 on April 09, 2014, 11:07:22 am ---Perhaps you could find figures for Victoria, not SA?

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I'm sure you're as equally capable as Hancock is at typing things into a search engine.

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