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...
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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...
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Attorneys: Alternative Career, Anyone?
In the recent nationaljurist.com article, ''More lawyers seeking alternative careers'', former attorney and...
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Trend: Attorneys Launching Their Own Firms
According to the November 24th nytimes.com article, “Skipping the Partner Track for a Shingle of One’s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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Loughner Deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial
On Wednesday, US District Judge Larry Burns determined Jared Loughner to be mentally unfit to stand trial for...
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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...
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Legal Jobs Fall Again In March
According to a preliminary draft of the monthly employment report out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the...
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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...
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Private Sector Subsidies for Graduates
The economy is improving, law firms are reporting increases in revenue and profits, unemployment is falling,...
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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...
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Virtual Law Practices
Virtual law practices are growing in number as attorneys, firms, and clients recognize the multitude of...
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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...
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Women in BigLaw
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2008 data reports that women make up 34.4% of all lawyers. It is not startling...
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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...
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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...
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Hiring Patterns in Law Schools
According to a recent ABA Journal article by Debra Cassens Weiss, Indiana University law professor Bill...
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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...
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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...
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Emerging Legal Markets In Asia
According to Europe's largest tax and legal publisher, Wolters Kluwer N.V., China is experiencing...
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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...
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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...
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Your GPA may go up soon!
The job market for new attorneys is more competitive than ever thanks to a depressed legal economy and an...
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Are things looking up for recent graduates?
According to a recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, things may be looking up slightly for new...
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