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… Should You Work as a Paralegal, Legal Secretary, or Librarian?

With associate positions hard to come by, new graduates — desperate to find a paying job in the legal profession — are applying for work as paralegals, legal secretaries and law librarians, according to Long Island Business News. The story sites one new grad, Jessica Sparacino, who secured a job as a paralegal at Jackson Lewis, but that was only because she’d been working in that position through law school. For the most part, law firms and other employers aren’t willing to hire JDs for non-lawyer positions. [Read the article]

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