Law school. It’s long nights at the library, reviewing case law and preparing for the bar exam. At the end of the three years law students spend grinding away is the hope of a lucrative law career. But few students know that they now may need to find an employer before they have even finished their first semester, and it’s creating chaos.
The shift made one student’s first semester “extremely anxiety-inducing,” an incoming third-year UC Berkeley law student, who was granted anonymity for this story in accordance with Hearst’s ethics policy due to fear of professional repercussions, told SFGATE.
“I literally got stress hives for half of the first semester of law school,” the student said. “I worked out of a top-five-in-the-world litigation firm for three years, and I’ve never had that level of stress.” The job, she explained, required up to 105-hour workweeks…