The School of Law at UC Davis will greet 156 first-year law students on Monday, Aug. 15, for a week of orientation before second- and third-year law students arrive on Monday, Aug. 22. This year's entering class is among the best in the country, placing in the top 8 percent academically of all first-year students, according to the 28-year-old law school. The class snapshot shows 79 women and 77 men, with 36 percent underrepresented ethnic minorities. The students will spend their first week learning about the American legal process, the academic services the school provides and how to use its extensive legal library. With more than 35,000 lawyers entering the job market each year, a major challenge awaits these students and their counterparts at other law schools upon graduation. "Law firms are continuing to do less recruiting at law schools than they have in the past," says Jane Thomson, career services director at the UC Davis School of Law. "Students are having to be more creative and more flexible in finding jobs."