Law Schools
Northwestern Allows Unemployed Law Grads to Defer Loan Payments
Northwestern Law School has announced that graduates with deferred law-firm start dates don’t have to make school loan payments until they begin work.
Laid-off alumni may also be able to participate in the loan forbearance program, announced in an e-mail to students by law dean David Van Zandt, the Chicago Tribune reports. Van Zandt said unemployed grads may also apply for short-term medical insurance to cover them until they begin their new jobs.
Tuition at Northwestern is about $45,000 a year.
The law school is also trying to help grads who can’t find jobs by adding volunteer opportunities at its Bluhm Legal Clinic and by finding other public-interest employers seeking interns, the story says.
