Recent graduates look out-of-the-box (Wisconsin Law Journal)

But this spring?s graduates, like many of late, face a hard reality once they?ve returned the caps and gowns: the persistently brutal job market. Nilesh Patel, JD career advisor with the University of Wisconsin Law School, said that in the past two years, about half of the school?s graduating class did not have positions lined up. While the numbers aren?t yet in for the Class of 2011, he suspects that figure won?t be dramatically different.