For years now debate has raged about the oversupply of law grads
from Australian Law Schools and whether our universities should be
held to account for creating a glut of early career lawyers when
the number of positions being created in the profession falls well
short of the annual Law Faculty output.
But for every claim that the tertiary education institutions are
failing their students, there are rebuttals by the schools
themselves with contradictory assertions about actual student
numbers, the intentions of their enrolling students and the
diversity of jobs that a law degree equips their alumni to pursue.
Not all law students enroll with the intention of joining the legal
profession, they say. And to be honest, I sat on the fence and
collected the proverbial splinters until I recently placed an
advertisement on Seek for a paralegal role.
