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Four views of the legal profession

Filed under Career Exploration, Internships, On the Job
Posted by Libraries, August 10, 2006
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“Days in the Lives of Summer Associates”

Ashby Jones, Annelena Lobb and Jennifer Valentino; The Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition, June 27, 2006, Vol. 247, Issue 149, p. B1

At the request of WSJ.com, four students kept a diary of their experiences working for law firms during the summer. In this article, they talk about their anxieties, the need to fit in, the new technologies they saw, the litigation, the lunches, the hectic schedules, the chances to prove themselves, and, of course, the perks.

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