<p>I'm curious how students who intend to work for a couple of years after undergraduate handle faculty recommendations for law school. Is it best to open an lsdas account and get recs while the student's work is still fresh in the prof's mind, or are two year old recs considered outdated?</p>
<p>I would assume that they would still be valid. Also, the student might consider LORs from his/her employer?</p>
<p>I would generally ask the professor for a recommendation while a student, but let him know that you won't be submitting it for a couple years. Most professors, in that situation, will opt to write a letter then and update it slightly when the time comes.</p>
<p>Check with your kid's college. My own and my kid's alma mater both have procedures whereby every student has to ask for at least 2 recs and these are kept on file at the college. This is useful because profs do die, retire, go on sabattical, etc., so it's not always easy to get recs later. Lots of people use these file recs and I've never heard of it being a problem.</p>