The job market is beyond grim, and then they are in this no man’s land.
— New York State Bar Association President Hank Greenberg, commenting on the current employment opportunities (or lack thereof) in the legal sector and law school graduates’ inability to take the bar exam on time due to the coronavirus outbreak. While New York has postponed the July bar exam for two months, “It’s far from certain where we’ll be in early September,” Greenberg says.
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