How To Become A Law Clerk (And Land A Great Clerk Job)
How to become a law clerk and land a great law clerk job
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Depp Lawyer Camille Vasquez Provides Inspiration for Women
The Johnny Depp lawyer who won his defamation case, Camille Vasquez, has received her inevitable promotion to partnership from her law firm, but one of her principal achievements beyond her trial victory is to provide inspiration for women lawyers and those seeking to possible take up a legal career.Vasquez said she found her new-found fame
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Law Career News – ABA Report Shows Persistent Disparities in Bar Pass Race Based on Race, Gender
CHICAGO, May 2, 2022 – Powered by LawFuel —The Managing Director’s Office of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar released today a new set of bar pass data for American Bar Association-approved law schools that provides national “ultimate” and first-time percentage pass rates based on race, ethnicity and gender.The charts, which
Law Job Site Reports on Shake Up in US Law School Rankings
New law job website LawJob1 has reported on the major shakeup in the rankings of US law schools following a reassessment of the way the well known US News & World Report law school rankings are reported.The USN&WR rankings have long been a staple for law school rankings, however their reworking of the methodology behind
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BigLaw Salary Scale For London Lawyers Lifts Higher
The biglaw salary scale just got higher in London following another US-based law firm lifting the pay rates for newly qualified lawyers to an eye-watering $215,000. Reports from London indicate that Vinson & Elkins has joined the other Stateside law firms Gibson Dunn and Simpson Thacher in lifting salaries to £161,700 and £158,000. Covington &
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Emerging From COVID Lockdowns – The Pickup In NZ Legal Jobs Sees Heavyweight Law Roles Open
Judges’ Clerk Employment Court, Major Commercial Law Roles, Environmental Law role and more Handling deals of up to $10 billion are the largest procurement deals handled by government and major new legal positions paying large money are among the legal jobs available to New Zealand lawyers.LawFuel’s Law Jobs & News network has listed two major
Could the Law School Admission Test – the LSAT – Become a Thing of the Past?
Law School admission in the US has long involved the LSAT, but it could become a thing of the past following announced plans made by the US Law School Admission Council this week? The answer is ‘No’, but there are certainly major changes afoot.>> Your law job hereThe legal education program due to start this
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How Cravaths Just Pushed The Big Law Salary Scale Needle
Cravaths’ ‘wow’ factor on mid-level and senior associates’ pay levelsThe Big Law salary scale just took another push from big law salary payer Cravaths . . Cravaths, along with Davis Polk and Milbank are the ‘troika’, as AbovetheLaw describes them, that lead the way on the big law salary scale and – once again –
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Which UK Law Firms Pay Best? Here are Biglaw Survey Results . .
A survey from UK legal blog Roll on Friday identifies the top paying UK law firms – and the irony (perhaps) is that the top echelons of the rankings are all US-based law firms, which have lead the rush to increase associate pay levels to unprecedented levels.Top firm in the rankings with a 92 per
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Baker McKenzie Increases Associate Salary Pay
Baker McKenzie has matched the big lift in associate salaries by adding $10,000 to the $20,000 paid to lawyers in the one-year to eight-year experience level.The lift follows the ongoing rise in biglaw associate pay levels, pushing the payments to their highest level.The Baker McKenzie move is backdated to January 1. First year associates will