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According to data released by the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar less than half of all 2012 law school graduates were employed in full time legal jobs. The data goes on to reveal that nearly ten percent held non-legal jobs but in which their law degree made them a more preferred option than other candidates. A major portion of the grads were working in jobs where their law degree was an embarrassment as they served customers in restaurants or were sales people in stores. Even worse was the information that a substantial portion of law graduates where still searching for work and were unemployed. Law graduates are finding, much to their shock and chagrin, that the hoped for six figure salaries were a mirage propagated by fancy advertising by law schools, that lured law students by the droves and filled their tuition coffers. A law school education does not come cheap with most schools charging around $40,000 annually. So much so, that many are accusing their schools of deceitful and deceptive advertising and taking them to court. Instead of cushy Los Angeles Legal jobs the grads find themselves working in restaurants or department stores, unsure of how they are going to repay their student loans that they had taken to finance their study. Students now feel that the misleading ads were deliberate and a conscious act of the legal education industry and a tool they used without compunction knowing full well that it could spell financial ruin and the end of a dream for an entire generation of law students. There are almost 20 lawsuits that are being heard by the courts across the nation, in which law students have alleged that they were enticed into joining the schools as they were influenced and beguiled by the reports of the success graduates of the law schools, which they allege were misleading, exaggerated and cloaked in ambiguity. Moreover, job placements figures were deceptive or wide of the mark. Graduates looking for Legal Jobs in Los Angeles, say that their jobs have been negatively impacted by the advances made by technology and the growing presence of the web in the legal industry. Most of the work that was earlier done by lawyers alone, can now be easily done, and more quickly at that, by a computer. Law libraries have become virtually redundant with a world of information available on the net and web-based companies are now trespassing into the attorney’s domain by offering litigants assistance with their legal work. Students say that what bugs them is not that they failed to get legal jobs in Los Angeles but that their alma maters, whose coffers they filled with borrowed money, did not even try to help and them and that it was time they paid for their indifference and callousness and that the unwholesome charade was exposed so that at least future generations of law students stand alerted and informed that a legal education was not a guarantee to Los Angeles law jobs.
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