LawFuel.com – Best Law Marketing Newswire – Latest LawCrossing legal jobs search data reveals that the U.S. jobs market is picking up for healthcare attorneys. Currently, 731 active openings required to be filled. Additionally, the legal jobsite foresees that healthcare attorney jobs will provide an immense thrust to the 6.9 per cent job growth projected […]
Part-time law work may pay well for some,but for members of New York’s State Legislature it can earn people like Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (pictured) up to $450,000 a year. According to financial dislosure filings released this week under the state’s new ethics law, part time work with law firms has been a major earner
The Weil Gotshal layoffs have spooked an already fragile legal industry recovery, with some commentators saying there are almost certainly more to come from corporate law firms. Already there have been office closings, such as Baker & McKenzie’s closure of their San Diego office and the closure also of that city’s office for Goodwin Procter.
LawFuel.com – Attorney Law News Daily – Hiring for legal professionals is seeing an upward trend in the U.S. says BCGAttorney Search. The legal recruiter website reports 3022 active attorney jobs that require to be filled, claiming that smaller firms have also started joining BigLaw in defying the downward trend in the legal jobs market.
AbovetheLaw is not used to towing the line when it comes to conventional law reportage, which is not a bad thing. Nor are the blog’s law school rankings, which looks at prioritizing outcomes in terms of the prestige (and pay packet) of any law job before deciding which law school to attend or – indeed
The pass rate requirements for US law schools may become tougher if American Bar Association changes are made. It appears certain that the ABA committee that is responsible for supervising law school accreditation stardards will endorse a rule that requires a minimum 80 per cent of graduates to pass the bar examination within two years
LawFuel.com – Lawyer News – In a down law market it can be tough for lawyers to make their way in the world, which is why Eli Broverman set up his successful online investment firm Betterment after leaving his corporate law job. Broverman left the “mother ship” of his corporate law firm to start a
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The National Law Journal has taken on the task of wading throught he data to find which law schools that are ABA-accredited and what job opportunities they provide. The ABA has provided more information about how law schools actually report law placements in the wake of some stinging criticism about their practises. The ABA has
Top law schools for making money? What could be a more intellectually rigorous question for an impending law school graduate, or under-graduate, than that? First there was the US News & World Report Law School rankings but now something far more impressive and important: the Forbes rankings focused on law firm starting salaries. What are
Yale Law School takes the top position in the latest US News and World report rankings, a list that has stirred controversy and debate in recent times. The US News rankings displayed relatively few changes in the top 10 positions, although it was lower down the law school rankings where major changes occurred. In the
