With such high chances for success, recent HLS graduates like Doug S. Brooks, an attorney with Goodwin, Procter and Hoar in Boston, says students are directly responsible for any stress they feel throughout the job search.
"It's stressful only because students don't know how many opportunities they have," Brooks said. "The nature of students at Harvard is that they are overly competitive. That's probably the number one reason the job search becomes so stressful."
Brendan M. Schulman, a third-year law student, said he realized only after the job search, how he could have made the process much smoother.
"I interviewed at too many places, and it became very time consuming," said Schulman, who worked last summer at Ropes & Gray, one of the largest firms in Boston. "A lot of [second-year law students] will be saying that two weeks from now."
"They're all great places to work," Schulman said. "If you're hired by one of them, you're already doing far better than most other lawyers in the country."
--Joyce K. McIntyre contributed to the reporting of this article.