Paid by Big Firms, Young Lawyers Turn to Public Service - NYTimes.com

Paid by Big Firms, Young Lawyers Turn to Public Service - NYTimes.com: "With the deferral year ending, some of these newly minted lawyers are surprised to find themselves reconsidering their career goals and thinking about staying with public interest law. When Latham & Watkins asked Mr. Richardson to defer his start date until at least October 2010, he took his interest in environmental issues to Resources for the Future, a nonprofit policy group based in Washington, where he did legal research on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and climate change."