The University of Wisconsin Law school has joined the growing list of schools helping out their graduates in this difficult legal job market. At a recent job fair, the law school rounded up 35 employers offering temporary positions to unemployed grads; the school has put aside $40,000 to pay these graduates, who will work as part-time "volunteers" for at least 10 weeks.

Is there any news coming out of your school about help for graduates finding jobs? Do share!

The National Law Journal reports that more and more firms are instituting apprenticeship programs for their first-year associates, which they hope "will better train their attorneys for life at a law firm and for handling clients."

An added benefit for firms is that they can justify cutting the starting salaries of newbie attorneys, which were continually inching toward the $200,000 mark.

Is this development a good thing for firms? For new lawyers? For the law? And will it last once the economy picks up?

The University of Miami Law School has sent a letter to incoming 1Ls offering them a $5,000 public interest scholarship if they defer law school until Fall of 2010.

In the letter, Designate Dean Trish White explains that more accepted candidates took the school up on the offer of admission than was expected, giving them a "larger than optimal first year class"; she also cautions students who are looking to law school as a "safe harbor" where they can hide out from the bad economy to really think harder about the commitment law school entails, noting that the future legal "employment landscape" is "very difficult to predict."

It's so interesting to see a law school dean asking admitted students to reconsider their decision to attend law school isn't it?

If you were planning on attending Miami Law, will you be taking this deal? And if you're headed elsewhere, would you take a similar deal if offered at your school?

Albany Law School is again in the news, this time for joining the Yellow Ribbon Program, to which Harvard Law School also belongs.

Under the government program, Albany Law will contribute $5,000 per post-9/11 veteran; the US Department of Veteran Affairs will match that, offsetting $10,000 of tuition for up to 10 students in the 2009-10 school year.

Find more information at Albany Law offers $10K in tuition aid per year for post-9/11 vets.