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Originally Posted by Kevin
-- and if you're really smart, be like PIKA and live in a place where the jobs are, like Texas, Oklahoma, D.C., the Dakotas, etc.
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DC is better than a lot of places right now, but it's still not great. My husband graduated law school last May -- his original job offer (from the summer after 2L year) got rescinded when the company started to flounder in the economy. He finished in the top 10% of his class, was editor of a journal, had a ton of internships and fellowships, and is networking like hell -- and he still hasn't found anything, and has only had a few interviews. We're lucky that he was able to get a retail job that gets him close to 40 hours a week, and I make a good amount of money for my field and we have health insurance. He's also clerking for free at the Superior Court and doing legal research for professors. The only attorneys from his class that he knows that have jobs are the two women who graduated #1 and #2, and several people had internships with judges who then took them on as full-time clerks.