Law Firm Marketing Efforts on the Rise This article explains how law firms have used marketing and how important it is for them to use it to increase their chances of defeating the competition. (195 views)
Cravath Raises the Base Pay Bar in 2016 Summary: Top law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore has raised their associate pay for the first time since 2007, placing their compensation rates at the top of the list. (962 views)
Make 7 Figures as a General Counsel Summary: The general counsel at hedge fund managers can be a very rewarding position. (10319 views)
What Do In-House Attorney Positions Pay? Summary: Learn more about what the typical pay is for in-house attorney positions in this article. (55308 views)
Even Harvard Law School Lawyers Face Gender Based Obstacles and Varied Career Trajectories Summary: A recent report released by Harvard Law School shows that its graduates continue to face various obstacles in their careers. (200 views)
Although Attorney Jobs Increase, the Numbers Are Not What They Appear to Be Summary: Although the numbers appear to show an increase in attorney jobs, there are other factors at play. (247 views)
Top 20 Most Popular Articles of 2014 on LawCrossing Take a look at the most popular articles on LawCrossing in 2014. (118 views)
2015 LawCrossing Salary Survey of Lawyer Salaries in Best Law Firms Summary: Check out the 2015 LawCrossing Salary Survey of more than 90 top law firms. Find out salary levels, bonuses, and much more about these top firms. (82284 views)
Why You Should Think Twice About Remaining in Law (or Going to Law School) Several years ago, an employee who curated content for our company website and was making around $120,000 a year was recruited to teach at a fourth-tier law school for a higher salary and less work. (14216 views)
Thomas Cooley Law School Exposed (and Why Much of the Legal Profession is a Scam) Summary: I like Thomas Cooley graduates and the students who are going there. The students are not the problem. Let me tell you what is really going on with this law school. (38875 views)
The Real Reason There Are Fewer Law Firm Jobs (What No Attorney Wants You to Know) Lately, there has been so much talk and so many articles about how bad the legal employment market is, how the economy is tight, how law school is a bad investment, how law firms are horrible places to work, and other negative aspects of being an attorney. I've even written some of these articles. (20848 views)
In-house Legal Departments are No Longer “Boutique” If you thought the in-house lawyer couldn't catch up to you in her sneakers, better glance over your shoulder. She and her in-house colleagues are catching up. What's more, they're in demand by employers across the business spectrum. You don't have to belong to a law firm to find a thrilling and rewarding career as an attorney. There are currently 13,481in-house jobs on... (82 views)
The Current Market for Corporate Attorneys Evan Anderson is Managing Director of BCG Attorney Search’s San Francisco office and the Director of BCG’s Diversity Recruiting Practice. He assists a variety of candidates in several practice areas on the West coast, but he places particular significance on candidates representing ethnic, gender, and LGBT diversity. (1293 views)
Benefits of Choosing a Legal Career As per a recent analysis, there has been an increase in the number of students who have chosen to pursue a career in law. A career in the legal field is considered to be highly beneficial and is indeed a high yielding profession. However, it takes a lot of hard work and determination to be successful in this challenging field. This promising and exciting field has several... (422 views)
A Legal Career is Still Good for a Bright Future Employment of lawyers is expected to grow 11 percent during the 2006-16 decade, about as fast as the average for all occupations. The growth in the population and in the level of business activity is expected to create more legal transactions, civil disputes, and criminal cases. Job growth among lawyers will result from increasing demand for legal services in such areas as... (1302 views)
What is the Future of Law Firm Recruiting? What does the future look like for law firm recruiting? What will the job picture look like for recent law school graduates, experienced attorneys, legal administrators, and support personnel in the coming years? No one knows for sure, but I'll make a few predictions of my own, based on my years of experience in law firm recruiting. (663 views)
Present Status of the Legal Job Market Today's legal job market is far different from that which existed just a few years ago. In the 1980s, high-paying legal jobs were plentiful. Students graduating from a good law school with decent grades usually had several job offers to choose from. Second-year students were also swamped by offers of summer law firm clerkships, often sweetened by outlandish perks and a... (72 views)
2013 LawCrossing Salary Survey of Lawyer Salaries in Best Law Firms A recent LawCrossing Salary Survey of Lawyer Salaries of Best Law Firms survey asked attorneys about their experiences working for 94 different law firms. While the survey asked a variety of questions regarding associate life, vacation time, benefits, and firm demands, one of the more interesting components involved the salary and bonus assessment. What follows is a... (33230 views)
Justice sans Juries When we hear the word "trial," most of us imagine a courtroom with a judge sitting on the bench and twelve jurors sitting in the box deciding who will win the case. (2 views)
The Importance of Common Law American law has its roots in the law of England, and our legal system is known as Anglo-American law. When the colonists arrived here they came as English citizens entitled to all the rights of Englishmen. Thus, they brought with them the legal structure of that country: Its unwritten constitution, including the protections of the Magna Carta; the recognition of all... (5343 views)
Legal Profession Future in Today’s World One prediction that can safely be made is that the pattern of rapid - and sometimes painful - change which the legal profession has experienced in recent years will continue for the foreseeable future. Professor Richard Susskind, author of The Future Of Law, has argued that 'the legal marketplace will change beyond recognition as we progress into the information society. (105 views)
Minorities in the Profession of Law In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an apprenticeship was the primary vehicle to become a lawyer. Blacks desiring to become lawyers, however, faced a difficult challenge because most white lawyers would not sponsor blacks in an apprenticeship program. Macon B. Allen was able to find a sponsor, however, and in July of 1844, he became the first black lawyer in the... (42 views)
Trends Affecting Practice of Law Like other businesses and professions, the practice of law has changed dramatically in recent years. A revolution in technology has swept the business world. Computers have altered the way law is practiced in countless ways, including how lawyers relate to their clients. Technology has even altered the dynamics of how lawyers relate to each other in organizations. (1000 views)
The Right to Receive Humane Legal Assistance Lawsuits often deal with the most intense, sensitive matters of your life, and yet lawyers and law firms are as cold as ice and judges act like they don't care if you live or die. Your friendliness or good intentions won't necessarily warm up the situation, either. (3 views)
Legal Profession Outlook for 2013 There is no improvement in the outlook for the legal profession as 2013 commences. (19 views)
Concept of legal literature The more you read in the legal literature, the more you hope they do something about this problem quickly, because until they do, you'll keep seeing statements like this: (7 views)
Defining profession in legal term. Well, after the fiasco, you will not be surprised to hear that the ABA did not exactly agree with that other person's "commonly agreed-upon ingredients of a profession." Instead, they came by the time I had spent eight or nine months working in my first law firm job, some of the novelty had worn off, and I had started to take my status for granted. (21 views)
Lawyer managed firms To illustrate lawyer managed firms, I offer two opposing essays from the ABA Journal on the question of whether huge law firms are bad news. One commentator, Peter Megargee Brown, titled his essay, "Yes: Greed Is the Bottom Line." Against him, two legal consultants named Jack Kaufman and Bradford W. Hildebrandt wrote an essay entitled, "No: Big Clients Need Big Firms." My... (4 views)
Popular Legal Myths Santa Claus delivers presents to good children every year on Christmas Eve. Smoking is sexy. We can reduce the federal budget deficit, increase military spending, and lower taxes. (334 views)