Workplace Discrimination Remains Strong In an ideal world, we would have reached a point in the modern workplace where discrimination issues no longer exist. However, as evidenced by the ongoing need for agencies such as the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Labor Department, this is far from true. (5 views)
Market Outlook for Legal Profession Jobs in 2012 The new year is upon us, and that can mean only one question is at the forefront of most people's minds interested in the legal profession: do you really want to become a lawyer? With tuition rates on the rise and the American Bar Association telling people to think carefully before applying to law school, it would behoove you to give the question its fair due. (43 views)
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... (4567 views)
Burgeoning Opportunities in Environmental Law In recent years, there's been a huge upswing in the need for all things environmental - and that includes not only those educated and experienced in environmental law - lawyers and paralegals included, but law students in schools all over the country. (110 views)
Attorneys: Alternative Career, Anyone? In the recent nationaljurist.com article, ''More lawyers seeking alternative careers'', former attorney and author Hillary Mantis discusses the fact that about seventy percent of the law graduates from 2010 are employed at jobs for which passing the bar is a requirement, according to the National Association for Law Placement employment report. Since NALP began collecting... (43 views)
Trend: Attorneys Launching Their Own Firms According to the November 24th nytimes.com article, “Skipping the Partner Track for a Shingle of One’s Own”, more and more lawyers ranging in age from their twenties to forties are following their own path versus the once fast track to partnership in Big Law. (56 views)
Sky Analytics Helps Corporate Legal Departments Get Handle on Legal Spend In an effort to empower general counsel, chief financial officers and corporate legal departments with regard to the myriad legal expenses they recognize each year, Sky Analytics recently released its flagship application. (58 views)
Attorneys and “Financial Reform” – Something Wicked This Way Comes According to the November 11th theatlantic.com article, ''Lawyers Cashing In on Banks' Misdeeds and New Regulation'', it's observed that, essentially, the mortgage crisis and the resulting financial reform ad nauseam has, and will continue to throw a wealth of business attorneys our way. (2 views)
In Wake of Recession, Corporations Recruit Directly From Law School Campuses, versus Law Firms In the wake of the recession, more companies are shifting toward recruiting law students directly from campuses, and training them in-house, versus hiring lawyers who've gained experience at major firms. Why? The price tag. (14 views)
Newly Minted Attorneys are Making Lemons Out of Lemonade in a Down and Out Job Market Due to a steady decline in the job market for attorneys, more and more new attorneys are getting creative about not only finding work that utilizes their skill sets, but helps them in paying back their often large debts. (22 views)
As Employment Rates Worsen for New Law Grads, ABA Under Microscope The lowest employment rates since 1996 for new law graduates, coupled with the high debt law students carry, have regulators and members of Congress casting a raised eye in the direction of the American Bar Association - the agency that accredits law schools - to increase efforts to reduce student debt, along with the high risk of default, according to the July 24th... (7 views)
Microsoft's Brad Smith Spearheads Diversity Initiative in Legal Profession According to the July 18th law.com article, ''Microsoft's Brad Smith meets with 50 law students as part of diversity initiative'', the legal profession has a ''dismal diversity record.'' To help combat this issue - one that affects attorneys, law students and the legal profession as a whole - Brad Smith, general counsel of Microsoft Corporation, is leading a group of top... (40 views)
Lawyers and Laissez-Faire: Shrinking Law School Class Sizes For law students and lawyers, it's a classic case - no pun intended - of supply and demand. More specifically, it's an ever increasing supply of law school graduates, along with a seemingly ever decreasing market demand for attorneys. (8 views)
Loughner Deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial On Wednesday, US District Judge Larry Burns determined Jared Loughner to be mentally unfit to stand trial for the 49 federal charges against him, which stem from a January Tucson shooting that left six dead and 13 wounded. (3 views)
Hiring in United States Legal Field Predicted to Remain Strong According to information in the May 23rd lawyersweekly.ca.com article, ''Law firm hiring up: Experts say law firms are starting to hire staff again'', a new report by the National Association for Law Placement, (NALP) Inc., in Washington, D.C., reveals that most of the factors gauging the legal employment market's strength for new lawyers, including law firm recruiting... (4 views)
Legal Jobs Fall Again In March According to a preliminary draft of the monthly employment report out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Legal Sector saw yet another decline in jobs, after February’s whopping loss of 2,900 jobs. (1 views)
Law School Applications Fall By 11.5% Back in 2009, the American Bar Association released a report that said, ''The rising cost of a legal education and the realities of the legal job market mean that going to law school may not pay off.'' (2 views)
Private Sector Subsidies for Graduates The economy is improving, law firms are reporting increases in revenue and profits, unemployment is falling, but the legal sector still managed to shed 2900 jobs in February. Even accounting for the implosion of Howrey eating into the lateral market and costing staff jobs, it's tough not to view this as an example of large and highly profitable law firms trying to squeeze... (4 views)
Legal Sector Takes Hit in February; Remains Somewhat Steady Year-to-Year According to the February monthly employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal sector saw a net loss in jobs throughout the month. The report shows that 2,900 legal jobs were lost during the month of February, which overshadows January's numbers which showed a humble gain of 500 jobs in the legal sector. (1 views)
Virtual Law Practices Virtual law practices are growing in number as attorneys, firms, and clients recognize the multitude of benefits that online legal services can provide. Based on the needs of the attorney or firm, different types of virtual law office arrangements are possible. A completely web-based VLO, or virtual law office, refers to a professional law practice that is completely... (31 views)
Legal Hiring To Rise First Quarter of 2011 According to a quarterly survey from Robert Half Legal Hiring Index, just over 30 percent (31%) of respondents are claiming that they will be adding jobs during the first quarter of 2011. That number is versus the one percent of those questioned who plan to decrease their legal staff. (3 views)
Women in BigLaw The Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2008 data reports that women make up 34.4% of all lawyers. It is not startling news to anyone that this figure is not higher; women have been underrepresented in the field, like most fields, since its inception. We should not be excited about that 34.4% because the reality of women in BigLaw is that women make up only 15% of equity partners,... (19 views)
University of New Hampshire School of Law's New Dean and President, John T. Broderick, Jr. If the name of who was just announced as UNC School of Law's new dean and president sounds familiar, it could be because he is finishing up his time with the New Hampshire Supreme Court. That's right, outgoing Chief Justice John T. Broderick, Jr. has accepted the position of Dean and President of the University of New Hampshire School of Law. (34 views)
Legal Sector Loses 300 Jobs In October; Is David J. Stern To Blame? A new release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that the amount of jobs in the legal sector fell a third of a percent. The reports of losses of legal sector jobs come after three months of an upward trend of job growth in legal services. (4 views)
Hiring Patterns in Law Schools According to a recent ABA Journal article by Debra Cassens Weiss, Indiana University law professor Bill Henderson, known for his studies of the legal profession, is predicting a ''new hierarchy'' of law schools will emerge. This hierarchy will be based on educational quality and connection to the legal profession, versus student academic credentials. (16 views)
Dodd-Frank Reform Bill and Increased Legal Opportunities Since The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama in July of this year, both attorneys and legal recruiters are seeing an increase in business. (8 views)
Legal Job Market Improving In Spite Of High Unemployment Encouraging numbers are coming in from the legal sector as the jobs in the field increase in spite of an overall decrease in jobs. (68 views)
Emerging Legal Markets In Asia According to Europe's largest tax and legal publisher, Wolters Kluwer N.V., China is experiencing ''explosive'' growth in the legal sector. (16 views)
Legal Jobs In Trouble Or On The Up? Jobs in the legal sector are beginning to improve, according to James Ross, a Capital Region Labor Market Analyst. In June of this year, 3,000 jobs were lost in the legal sector. In July, there was a more than two thirds dip in jobs lost, with only 800 legal sector jobs being cut, including paralegals and lawyers. (2 views)
Can Law Firms Go Green? What is a sustainable business model? Can a law firm leave a smaller carbon foot print? How in the jiminy would a green law firm operate if it could leave a smaller eco echo? Apparently, according to ereleases.com, there is a tool now available to assist businesses in assessing the size of their carbon boots, ecoAnalyze. (8 views)