Up until a few weeks ago, third-year law student Elijah Watkins assumed he would show up for his law firm job starting in the fall after graduation — just as class after class of newly minted lawyers before him had done.

But in early March, Watkins learned that the old rules don’t apply when the economy is tanking and when law firms are desperate to keep expenses down.

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