Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/05/2011 -- Nearly 4.4 percent of the workers with a bachelor's degree or higher were unemployed in October. This is less than half the total unemployment level. Nationally and in Westchester, the legal profession is one of the few areas of the private sector which requires an advanced degree and has yet to post consistent monthly job gains.

Pace Law School in White Plains exposed a plan to tackle the problem head-on by creating a university-sponsored law practice, earlier this month. This plan would provide real work and real salaries to recent graduates expecting to start public interest law as their careers.

According to Jennifer Friedman, director of the Public Interest Law Center at the school, the school will continue to hunt for donors over the next few months, hoping to the practice in September 2012. The law incubator also accomplishes a local need for reasonable legal services for Westchester residents - dealing with evictions, foreclosures, other landlord-tenant disputes, domestic violence and immigration concerns.

A few law schools having similar incubator programs include the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, the University Of Maryland School Of Law and the City University of New York School of Law.

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