Abstract
Never before have there been as many Australian law schools as there are today. This has led to a perception amongst lawyers and the media about the oversupply of law graduates, usually in the context of whether the legal profession can absorb the substantial number of law graduates. What is lacking in this discourse is the choices that law graduates make to pursue or continue their careers outside the legal profession. Our Australian qualitative longitudinal study, which researched a cohort of law graduates and lawyers for the period 2014 to 2021, reports on the motivations such law graduates have in sidestepping a legal career. Whilst these reasons cannot be generalised to all law graduates, the motivations throws into sharp relief the burdens that commercial and corporate lawyers face in practice. It is these experiences that are pertinent to law graduates, many of whom have been influenced by commercial and corporate career paths during their time in law school.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 87-101 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | James Cook University Law Review |
| Volume | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |