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Have There Been Significant Changes in the Career Aspirations and Occupational Choices of Law School Graduates in the 1960's?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Rita J. Simon ,
Frank Koziol  and
Nancy Joslyn
Rita J. Simon
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
Frank Koziol
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
Nancy Joslyn
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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When Ralph Nader addressed the 35th Annual Meeting of the State Bar of Michigan in September 1970, he said, “Anybody who talks to law students today sees a tremendous difference between their concepts, aspirations, and indignation levels and the law students of yesteryear.” Nader's views on this occasion have been shared by other members of the bench and bar as well as by social and political commentators whose opinions appear regularly in the mass media. They claim that one of the by-products of the social turmoil and the subsequent new politics that emerged at the end of the sixties was a shift by a large proportion of the recent law graduates into careers that involved protection of civil rights and civil liberties, defense of indigents, protection of consumers, and affiliation with inner city citizens' groups that seek basic changes in welfare policies, taxation, housing, and so forth. For a fuller discussion of this issue by members of the legal profession, see Yale Law Journal (1970), McGovagle (1970), and Riley (1970).

Type
Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Fall 1973 , pp. 95 - 108
Copyright
Copyright © 1973 Law and Society Association.

References

McGOVAGLE, J. J. (1970) “New Lawyers and New Law Firms,” 56 American Bar Association 1139.Google Scholar
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NORTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW (1972) “A Survey of Chicago Student Opinions and Career Expectations,” 67 Northwestern Law Review 628.Google Scholar