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Education

Apr. 22, 2014

Law schools increasingly funding graduates' jobs

Although the total is still small, the number of full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar exam passage that are funded by law schools across the country shot up by nearly half this year compared to last year.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - Lisa M. Foutch had a tough time finding a job after graduating from USC Gould School of Law in May. Although she'd passed the bar exam on her first try and had worked a few months at the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal in the Hague, she couldn't find a good litigation position. Then, she got lucky. Foutch learned of an opening for a volunteer lawyer at Orange County legal services orga...

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