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It’s just completely exhausting, to be honest. It diminishes everything you’ve gone through at school. It feels like the end is nowhere in sight. It really sucks not to work in the legal field, especially after I was already offered a position, have all these years in law school, had internships and experience. To not be able to work in that field feels like so much work for nothing.
— Ivonne Antonian, a recent graduate of Florida A&M University College of Law, commenting on what her life has been like as she’s tried to take the Florida bar exam during the coronavirus crisis. Antonian had a job lined up at the Orange-Osceola Public Defender’s Office, but because she won’t be taking the bar exam until next week and won’t know her results for a few more months, she won’t be able to start there. Like many other recent law school graduates, she’s been living off credit cards. She plans to apply for Florida’s supervised practice program, but if she doesn’t find another job in the legal field soon, she says she’ll have to find something outside of the law to support hereself.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.