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This is good news for more senior associates, who suddenly find the demand for
lateral hires increasing as firms look increasingly toward experienced attorneys to do the work, but it may cast a shadow over the prospects of junior associates and recent graduates. However, even as demand for new attorneys is declining, law school admissions are increasing with new schools opening.
Some schools are looking to new curriculums, designed to deal more directly with the practice of law and less with legal theory, so that newly minted attorneys are better prepared to start work upon graduation. If clients believe that they are not subsidizing the on the job training of new lawyers, the theory goes, they may be more willing to pay for work done by junior associates.
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