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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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.
