University of Maryland School of Law : Catalog, 1988-1989

CAREER SERVICES
The law school Career Services
Office, under the direction of an
assistant dean, provides career
planning and employment counseling
services for students and
alumni/ae. The counseling focuses
on law- related employment opportunities
and careers, job search and
interviewing skills, resume preparation,
internships, postgraduate
studies and bar admission. Career
Services also serves as a clearinghouse
of career information and
maintains a comprehensive career
resource library. The library contains
part-time and full-time employment
listings for students and
graduates, legal directories, career
planning publications and professional
journals.
In addition, Career Services
acts as a liaison for students and
graduates with employers interested
in hiring student law clerks and attorneys.
The Baltimore-Washington
legal job market is quite active
and offers myriad employment
opportunities. Career Services directs
an expanding oncampus interviewing
program for law firms, corporations
and government and
public interest agencies recruiting
students and new graduates. Approximately
150 legal employers interview
on campus each academic
year.
Also, Career Services coordinates
resume forwarding and offcampus
interviewing programs for
legal employers wishing to invite
students to firm offices for interviewing.
During 1987, approximately
170 legal employers from
35 states participated in the resume
forwarding and offcampus interviewing
programs. The law school
is also a member of the Mid-Atlantic
Consortium for Law Placement,
a group of nine schools that
sponsors an annual recruiting conference
for legal employers interested
in hiring first-, second- and
third-year students.
As of December 1987, 96% of
the law school's 1987 graduating
class had responded to an employment
survey. Among the responding
graduates, 96.3% had obtained
employment, a percentage higher
than the national average. Among
the employed graduates in the class
of 1987, 42% are in private law
firms, 21% are serving judicial clerkships,
20% in government, 11%
in corporations and businesses and
other public interest organizations,
and a total of 6% in military service,
academic study and other legal
positions. Reported beginning salaries
for 1987 graduates averaged in
the mid-thirties.
A Minority Hiring Advisory
Board was recently established to
advise Career Services in implementing
programs to assist students
with career planning and job
search. The board also acts as a liaison
with area legal employers to
"Existing rules and principles
can give us our present location,
our bearings, our latitude
and longitude. The inn that
shelters for the night is not
the journey's end. The law,
like the traveler, must be ready
for the morrow. It must have
a principle of growth."
Benjamin N. Cardozo,
The Growth of the Law
"The antithesis between a
technical and a liberal education
is fallacious. There can be
no adequate technical education
which is not liberal, and
no liberal education which is
not technical: that is, no education
which does not impart
both technique and intellectual
vision."
Alfred North Whitehead