{"id":166,"date":"2015-04-10T17:06:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience-draft\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2019-11-25T23:34:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:34:54","slug":"pre-law-careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/pre-law-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Law Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pre-Law Program<\/h1>\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"pre-law-program\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-pre-law-program\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-1382\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1382\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1391\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1391\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/pre-law-curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1385\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1385\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/pre-law-application-guide\/\">Law School Application Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1388\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1388\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/academics\/pre-law-program\/pre-law-careers\/\">Careers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<h2>Careers<\/h2>\n<p>Career opportunities in law change rapidly. There are more lawyers than ever before, but&nbsp;changes in the way legal services are administered constantly generate new possibilities. A law degree is a good solid background for many careers in business and government. Even though such a career may not specifically require a law degree, the degree may give you&nbsp;an advantage over others not possessing the degree. For information about legal careers and about law school recruitment, contact a Prelaw Advisor and Career Services and join the Prelaw Society.<\/p>\n<h3>The Prelaw Society<\/h3>\n<p>The Prelaw Society brings in recruiters, holds discussions, organizes speakers, and shows films of interest to those planning a career in law. There is also a Prelaw Society email discussion list, (LAWURI) that provides prelaw information, discussions among students and notices of law-related activities. To&nbsp;be added to this list, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/listserv.uri.edu\/cgi-bin\/wa?A0=LAWURI\">here<\/a> to subscribe. On the 2nd floor of Washburn Hall, there is a <strong>Prelaw Center<\/strong> containing legal and prelaw materials, computer access to law and prelaw websites, law school bulletins and a conference\/study room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-Law Program Careers Career opportunities in law change rapidly. There are more lawyers than ever before, but&nbsp;changes in the way legal services are administered constantly generate new possibilities. A law degree is a good solid background for many careers in business and government. Even though such a career may not specifically require a law degree, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-166","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions\/2342"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}