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The Student Newspaper of South Texas College of Law
Summertime aft South Texas
Students Discuss Summertime Plans
By Tablilla A. Serrano
Staff Writer
few weeks ago,
as I was chopping
up the first draft of my
appellate brief in an al-
most futile attempt to
make it somewhat coher-
ent someone jumped into
the pool that sits directly
below my apartment.
The sky was crisply blue
and it was warm outside,
but not humid. It was the
type idyllic day that falls
right between the ebb of a
mild winter and the on-
slaught of a sticky, sweaty
Gulf Coast summer. As I
watched the jumper swim
laps, back and forth, across
the pool I was overcome
with the unfairness of the
situation. I wanted to
swim too. Of course, I
understood the inappropri-
ateness of this desire, be-
cause you see I don't know
how to swim. I somehow
managed to sidestep the
swimming requirement at
undergraduate institution
and tó this day, I flail hap-
hazardly more than stroke
gracefully. I would have
happily given up the
project I was working on to
cannonball into the pool,
but, as is usually the case,
an odd sense of responsibil-
ity and impending doom
overwhelmed my carefree
ruminations and I was once
again muddling through my
appellate brief. I was com-
forted by the thought that I
will be able to flail at my
leisure when summer
comes.
The idea of summer
has always had a profound
influence over me. I recall
the summers of my youth
filled with block parties with
neighbors and family in the
deep southwest where the
men drank copious amounts
of cerveza and the woman
fanned themselves to
stave off the dry heat
while they gossiped in
Spanish. My adolescent
summers were con-
sumed with ludicrous
attempts to write the
great American novel
and, later, with working
as a telemarketer in a
successful attempt to
earn enough money for
a trip to Europe. These
memories are inter-
twined with recent ones
of sitting outside in a
restaurant's patio, drink-
ing glasses of merlot
underneath a starless sky
on a warm night.
Of course, for
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Advice on the Job Front
For Those Not Making $2000 a Week
By Afton Cranberry
Staff Writer
X 0 dtt those first and
second year students
who are heading off to a
summer of intense six
week summer positions
at major law firms like
Baker Botts or Fulbright
Jaworski— congratula-
tions. I'm sure you will
have a great summer
where you will make
ity of money, have
job opportuni-
ty wined and
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all
I be.
To the rest of us, don't de-
spair; we are definitely not
alone.
The economic
down turn is finally begin-
ning to hit us all where it
hurts—the legal job mar-
ket. The chain reaction
began several years ago,
when people were being
laid off from jobs and hav-
ing difficulty finding re-
employment. A smart so-
lution at the time seemed
to be to go after that gradu-
ate degree you've always
wanted. This lead to un-
precedented competition
to get into law schools
across the country. Aver-
age LSAT scores went up,
you had to have a competi-
tive resume, and some of
the most talented classes in
a law school's history be-
gan to enter the fray.
The same is true
here at South Texas. Recent
years have seen a steady in-
crease in applicants, as well
as increases in average
LSAT scores and GPAs for
the incoming first years.
This spells great news for
the success of the school but
rather scary news for our
success at find a job. Basi-
cally, the current legal job
market began a steady de-
cline in 2001 falling rapidly
in the fall of 2001. As a re-
sult job opportunities are
being affected, junior asso-
ciates are being laid off, and
there is a generalized feaf
among law students about
never being able to find their
dream job. ;; t
According to a re-
port released by the Ameri-
can Bar Association law
firms are beginning to turn
away candidates who would
have been top contenders
five years ago. Most
analysts say that is sim-
ply how good the stu-
dents are that are seek-
ing jobs. To secure your
future you can't sit back
this summer and enjoy
it—now is the time to
start building the re-
sume, making the con-
tacts, and planning well
for the major job search
of the future—the per-
manent position. Know-
ing of the perilous job
market ahead facing a
summer without a major
clerkship may force a
promising law student to
all but give up on their
future. But there is no
need to worry, there is
still hope for filling your
summer with law school
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