Featured Job Survey Results: Got Work?

In yesterday’s Featured Job Survey, brought to you by ATL and Lateral Link, we asked you whether your firms had enough work to go around. The two questions posed were (1) whether business is slow for you and (2) whether you’re afraid of losing your job.
Almost 1,300 of you responded to the survey (which is, by the way, a number 100 times greater than the handful of cantankerous commenters who objected). Here are the overall results:

More detailed results, broken down by a number of categories, appear after the jump.


More detailed results appear below. A few hundred respondents were kind enough to provide school or firm names, but only four schools had more than 20 responses (Harvard, Georgetown, NYU and Columbia), and only four firms had more than 10 responses (Skadden, Sidley, Kirkland, and Latham). As a result, these survey results should not be regarded as scientific or reliable in any way; we provide them for entertainment purposes only.
Some observations:
* Nerds rule. Patent and tax attorneys are pretty comfortable, and real estate and structured finance attorneys are pretty scared.
* The law school data, while suspect due to the low response rate, is somewhat amusing. Harvard grads are the most afraid of layoffs; Georgetown grads are the most secure. Columbia grads are busier than everybody else; NYU grads are the most likely not to make their hours.
* The law firm vs. law firm data is also highly dubious, again due to the low response rate (fewer than twenty responses per firm). The upshot is that very few Biglaw associates are afraid of losing their jobs. But maybe that’s because the four firms for which we had more than 10 responses — Kirkland, Latham, Sidley, and Skadden — are some of the biggest and most successful law firms around.
IS WORK SLOW?

ARE YOU AFRAID OF LOSING YOUR JOB?

Earlier: Featured Job Survey: Got Work?

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