What do law students foresee?

Do law students want to practice law? If you do, what do you suppose that looks like? For some of you, it will be human rights and work that is based on access to justice. May there be more of you. Some of you would like to serve the business community. So what does that look like? For now, it is a combination of fine in-house legal departments and law firms. Many of them are the ...
What do law students foresee?
Jean Cumming, Lexpert
Do law students want to practice law? If you do, what do you suppose that looks like? For some of you, it will be human rights and work that is based on access to justice. May there be more of you. Some of you would like to serve the business community. So what does that look like? For now, it is a combination of fine in-house legal departments and law firms. Many of them are the same size as one another.

Some of you will likely obtain your first career jobs in “alternative legal careers.” Someday, we will drop the word “alternative.”  In those positions, you are likely to see the symbiosis that exists among professionals offering at the very least accounting, financial, engineering and legal services. Indeed, some of you may have undertaken interdisciplinary education.

Going forward, there are likely to be fewer walls between these professions. This is not the first time in history this has happened, by the way. Arguably, law evolved from that once highly practical discipline of Philosophy. What will the next iteration of the legal profession be? We leave it to today’s law students to tell the rest of us.

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