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
The law jobs market is crumbling, according to US reports where graduates have been poured out of law schools and then coming to the reality that the jobs aren’t there. [wp_ad_camp_1] In the US, law schools are actually cutting down the size of law classes, with more than two out of every five graduates in
LawFuel.com- Law News and Law Jobs – Considering the services of a legal recruiter has become a necessity for both job seekers as well as employers in present times. It’s a myth that legal jobs are dying and that there are fewer employment options available in the legal market. Latest job search on the BCG
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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LawFuel.com – Best Law Marketing Newswire – The national full-time, long-term legal employment rate for the 2012 class of law school graduates has been 56.2% as per the Law School Transparency’s employment reports. Additionally, much news of lateral hiring and new legal jobs being created with firms shifting base has done the rounds this year.
ABA President Jmes Silkenat questions whether President Obama really meant to say that law degrees should be for two years, rather than three. What he meant, according to the lawyer’s president rather than the country’s, was that J.D. degrees should be less expensive. [wp_ad_camp_3] The comments were made during a tour when the president was
Parody has often been the strong point for law student reviews and so when a group of Auckland law students took on Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” it was parody on their minds. But not for YouTube, who banned their steamy take on the Thicke video, which features topless models and is designed to blur the
Paul Campos writes for Lawyers Guns & Money from which this post was taken. I don’t know if there’s much point in continuing to harp on this, but US News just published another ludicrous law school “ranking,” in a story entitled Ten Law Degrees With the Biggest Return on Investment. The publication calculated this by determining
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Steven J. Harper is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University and author of The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (Basic Books, April 2013), and other books. He retired as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in 2008, after 30 years in private practice. This article appeared in The American Lawyer. In June the legal
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