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"You Ask...I Answer - How Do I Counsel New Graduates?"

This post was written by Susan Cartier Liebel:  "...Plan for solo practice, not the Big Law job and the Big Law job opportunity may present itself.

To answer you regarding this particular thinking, the new grads are worrying about the wrong issue and their thinking is incorrect.  They should plan for solo practice BECAUSE of the economy and by doing so, they are MORE attractive to the new firm emerging out of this chaos.  Why?  The new firms are going to be (or should be) more interested in self-starters and someone who doesn't have to be hand-held through any process, who can make rain independently and reduce the large firm's initial training costs...

The full text of this interesting post is available by clicking on the author's name.

Source: Build a Solo Practice, 15 February 2010 @ SPU Copyright 2010 Susan Cartier Liebel, reproduced with permission.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on February 19, 2010 (boomark / email).