US law jobs are on the decline again, dropping 700 jobs in May and following hard on the heals of a 2000 job drop in April. The figures from the Labor Department show that there are around 1.14 million legal jobs in May, which is still around 1200 more than May last year, but 40,000 […]
Like to see the data on the National Association for Law Placement and whether law schools are withholding information from their ‘consumers’? Law.com’s Kylee McEntee has written about the list of schools publishing NALP reports for 2010-2012, with the largest number (108 reports) for 2012. To see the data go to the LST Score Reports.
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Winnie M Li wrote this article about her experience being raped while at Harvard and how her case was handled. Her article appears in the Huffington Post. When I woke up this morning a friend had mailed me this anonymous article by a current under-graduate about Harvard’s mishandling of her sexual assault case. “This made
A new paralegal certification program has been set up in Indiana with the implementation of a program from Ivy Tech Community College Northwest. GetParalegalCertification reports that the course looks at job possibilities in the paralegal profession, the various paralegal associations and the skills required, including the usual paralegal requirements such as legal research, legal writing
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Its US News Law School rankings time . . again. The Law School rankings are out to inform – and doubtless rankle – the thousands seeking to determine the best of the law schools in the 2015 rankings. So what were the top 10 law schools according to the US News & World Report? Below
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Why have law schools fallen out of favor to the extent that they have in the US? And elsewhere, too, many would argue. What is it about the surge of law school graduates that leads to this feeling of hatred towards the schools – even the litigation that has pursued several of them? More importantly,
Oops . . giving the finger to your law professor is not exactly the best way to improve your grades. RonNell Anderson Jones teaches at BYU Law School and happened to encounter an angry motorist on the way to class, tweeting . . I wonder if the driver who honked and made the rude gesture
Scoring a law job in a down market is a challenge. However there ARE ways. For instance, by picking a major early in the process. But there are others. Adam Gropper, the author of “Making Partner: The Essential Guide to Negotiating the Law School Path and Beyond”, a book that the ABA has used to
Enrollments at US law schools are waaay down, reports show. An article in the WSJ and other media indicate that the law has become less attractive with an 11 per cent drop in enrollments according to the American Bar Association with students cocnerned about job prospects and debt levels. One upside for those who do
Patrick Ellis writes a blog at http://patellis.wordpress.com and commented on a recent blog item on lawyers and social media posted by Kevin O’Keefe with an interesting take on why law students don’t put themselves ‘out there’. He asks the question: Why won’t they Twitter or Blog? Because they are afraid of the risks involved with
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