Do Older Law Grads Face Placement Woes? Yale Students Unconcerned
About a third of the law students at Yale spent at least two years in other pursuits before beginning their law studies. Will those students find the job search more difficult?
The Yale Daily News posed the question to six second-career students, and found they weren’t any more concerned about the job search than their younger counterparts.
Mark Fitzgerald, 31, is a former fashion model who went on to co-found a specialty food company called CoolBeansDip.com with his brother, the story says. The brothers decided to sell the company when they had trouble obtaining credit and investors for the enterprise.
Fitzgerald told the Yale Daily News that the financial crisis has had a sobering effect on young people, and that may be why his classmates are “pretty intense and serious.” He said he’s not sure if it’s true that older associates have more difficulty making partner.
“I’ve heard some rumors that in big global law firms that have thousands of attorneys, [being older] can be problematic, but I don’t know if that’s actually true,” he told the publication. “I don’t anticipate having a problem, based on Yale’s tremendous success in job placement.”
For the class of 2008, 96 percent of Yale law grads were employed at graduation and 98 percent were employed within the first nine months, according to the story.
