The dean of Melbourne University’s law school, Carolyn Evans told the Australian Financial Review that students could not assume that because they had a law degree, they would get a job as a lawyer. More than 12,000 law students graduate each year, with the number doubling over the past decade, in a market which has 60,000 practising solictitors in total. Some of the blame has been attributed to the popularity of post-graduate law courses which have seen a 330 per cent increase – from 1635 in 2001 to 7036 in 2012. Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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