Matching Program for Med Students Is Good Model for Legal Hiring, Prof Says
A Harvard law professor is backing a new method for hiring law students that is modeled on the way medical students find jobs.
Law professor Asish Nanda says the matching procedure would work for law firms, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports, noting a reference to Nanda’s idea in the Harvard Crimson.
Nanda says a legal matching program would work this way: Law firms would interview all applicants in the spring of their second year in law school, rather than in the fall. Firms would list preferences in rank order, and students would do the same. Then students would be matched to law firms through a centralized matching authority.
The Crimson article notes the tough job market for law students and says the number of firms recruiting at Harvard is down by 20 percent.
