House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, walk to meet with furloughed federal workers and discuss the impact on families from the partial government shutdown amid President Donald Trump’s demands for funding a U.S.-Mexico border wall, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 9, 2019. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Most New York law students who miss out on the opportunity to work for the federal government because of the shutdown will likely graduate on time but their advisers fear they will be turned off to public service altogether.
Hundreds of law students across the country who expected to extern this semester at federal agencies now find themselves in limbo. Their advisers are working frantically to find alternative placements but some students feel that the backup plans aren’t as inspiring as their first choices.
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