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&lt;p&gt;A personal injury attorney in Illinois may have solved the nation’s underemployment crisis for law school graduates…paying them not to study law to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To swat back the swarm of newly minted attorneys descending upon the legal job market, Matthew Willens of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.willenslaw.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Willens Law Offices&lt;/a&gt; in Chicago and Rolling Meadows, Illinois offered a $1,000 scholarship to students working toward a graduate degree in a field other than law. The aptly named “Anything but Law School” scholarship was recently awarded to a music teacher pursuing a master’s degree in music education.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Willens believes the legal employment market is too saturated and that there are simply more licensed attorneys than there are jobs. “Law school is no longer a safe road to a successful career,” he observed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While any source of &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/vaults-law-blog-legal-careers-and-industry-news/can-this-initiative-make-your-student-loan-debt-disappear/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;no-strings-attached scholarship money&lt;/a&gt; is a good thing, Willens shouldn’t have excluded non-practicing J.D.s. Giving an attorney who isn’t practicing law $1,000 would certainly help ease the &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/vaults-law-blog-legal-careers-and-industry-news/is-your-law-school-ranked-highest-for-soul-crushing-debt/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;burden of law school loans&lt;/a&gt; and possibly prevent her from reentering the legal market in an attempt to reduce student loan debt, thus preventing increased saturation of an &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/vaults-law-blog-legal-careers-and-industry-news/does-decreased-law-school-enrollment-signal-a-change-in-legal-education/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;already oversaturated job market&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no word yet on whether Willens Law Offices will be offering the scholarship again or not.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow Vault on Twitter&#160;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/vaultlaw&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@VAULTLAW&lt;/a&gt;, Instagram&#160;&lt;a href=&quot;http://instagram.com/vaultcareers&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@VaultCareers&lt;/a&gt;&#160;and&#160;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/vault&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read More:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/vaults-law-blog-legal-careers-and-industry-news/is-your-law-school-ranked-highest-for-soul-crushing-debt/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Is Your Law School Ranked Highest for Soul Crushing Debt?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/vaults-law-blog-legal-careers-and-industry-news/does-decreased-law-school-enrollment-signal-a-change-in-legal-education/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Does Decreased Law School Enrollment Signal a Change in Legal Education?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/vaults-law-blog-legal-careers-and-industry-news/can-this-initiative-make-your-student-loan-debt-disappear/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Can This Initiative Make Your Student Loan Debt Disappear?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/not-law-school-scholarship-20141003,0,5884527.story?hoods=/neighborhood/austin/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&#39;Anything but law school&#39; for suburban teacher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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