“I think the survey will provide students who are pursuing legal opportunities in the private sector with helpful information when selecting their courses,” Weber wrote in an email. “Taking courses in accounting and financial statement analysis and corporate finance will serve students well irrespective of their chosen practice areas.”
Some students, however, do not appear to focus on employer preferences while selecting courses.
“I think that there are other things on my resume that would speak to these skills,” said first year law student Salome Viljoen, who entered the Law School with a background in mathematics and finance. “I think that I mostly want to get experience and exposure to things that I don’t think I could get outside of a law school context.”
Yet other students already seem to be following the advice offered by the study.
“I wanted to be marketable to future employers…so I tried to choose classes that would make me more attractive and I also tried to choose classes that would make entering into the working world easier,” said Natalie A. Perez, a third year at the Law School.
The Law School offers a broad range of accounting and finance courses. According to Fried, enrollment in those classes has steadily grown over the years.
Spier also highlighted how the Law School has designed a strong base of courses on economics and finance. According to Spier, introductory business methods classes at the Law School have proved particularly popular.
Perez, however, noted that some law students may be more reluctant to take finance classes.
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