Talking with this year’s law school grads, it’s hard to believe that a year has passed since my classmates and I graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law. One year later, many of us are hard at work at law firms – arguing motions, counseling clients, and still getting used to the way our last names sound with the word "attorney" in front of them.

Not that we went directly from the graduation stage to positions at law firms. There was that small matter of the bar examination. Within 24 hours of commencement, most of us had started our review courses – or, as the guy in the chair next to me called ours, "paying $3,000 to sit in a room and watch videos for four hours a day."

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