monday, december 8, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 3
Job prospects surge
for UNL law grads
By Jim Facld is
Times are getting better for UNL Law College gradu
ates seeking employment a UNL Law College assistant
dean said.
The number of law firms coming to campus to inter
view future lawyers has increased 25 percent in the last
two years, Ray Hazen said. This fall 25 firms interviewed
on campus.
Many corporate law firms are scrambling to get the top
graduates, Hazen said. A recent Newsweek article reported
that top students at Harvard, Stanford and other prestigi
ous law colleges are being flown on luxurious trips to visit
firms.
The article said one Harvard student spent four days in
Los Angeles and dined on $50-a-plaec meals, went to a
Bruce Springsteen concert and stayed at a plush hotel.
Similar trips are given to some Nebraska students too,
Hazen said, but not to the same degree as in the east and
west coasts.
"Several of our students have been flown out and
wined and dined in places like Dallas, Houston, Denver
and Minneapolis," he said. "But it's usually just those stu
dents in the top 15 percent of their class or on the law
review .,"
Hazen said those in the top 15 percent of their class
have a "seller's market where the student owns the cards."
The other 75 percent, however, still "have to go looking
for a job," he added.
This is essentially creating two job markets for law stu
dents, he said. One is corporate law firms that are growing
and have a big turnover rate. These corporate firms go
after the top graduates. The other market is the smaller
law firms.
Hazen said corporate firms in the midwest pay
beginning lawyers between $22,000 to $30,000. depend
ing on location. The highest salaries are in Denver, he said.
The smaller firms in the midwest will pay between
514,000 to $25,000, he said.
But there is an advaiUage in working for a smaller firm,
he said. A lawyer becomes a partner in a small firm faster
than he would with a corporate firm, and once a partner,
he can call his own shots and his income increases. Hazen
said.
Hazen said about 70 percent of UNL law graduates
stay in Nebraska and 85 percent stay in the midwest.
However, several UNL graduates are traveling through
out the country and consequently the UNL Law College
has become better known nationwide.
"For every firm that comes here and interviews, we get
two or three that request resumes," he said.
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