I don’t want to go there, but as your faithful career sherpa, I have no choice but to give you the unvarnished truth about the state of the legal marketplace. You probably know bits and pieces of the news already, but I’ll lay out the whole mess on one table:

• Firms slashed summer classes by an average of 44 percent, reports Corporate Counsel sibling publication The American Lawyer‘s Summer Hiring Survey: “The 114 firms that responded to the survey hired an average of 31 summer associates this year, down from last year’s average of 55 associates.”

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