Job Survey
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Job Survey
Featured Job Survey: The Bear Stearns Effect
While last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on hindsight is still open, today’s survey ponders the uncertain future. And Bear Stearns’s effect thereon. Nathan Koppel has an interesting post on the WSJ Law Blog about which firms might miss Bear Stearns business. Verdict: it’s murky, but probably not that great for Latham, Skadden, Cadwalader, […] -
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Featured Survey Results: Have Resume, Will Travel.
In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link surveys, we asked you whether you would want to work in a different city, whether, knowing what you know now, you would still want to work where you do, and where, if you could go to any other firm, you would choose to go. We received 1,189 responses […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Featured Job Survey: Who Would You Choose?
So far this week, we’ve asked you whether you would want to work in a different city and whether, knowing what you know now, you would still want to work where you do. In today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we ask you a related question: if you could go to any other firm, who […]
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Job Survey
Featured Job Survey: Would You Still Make The Same Choice?
Today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey is about hindsight. With real estate and structured finance in a slowdown, bankruptcy heating up, and some firms opening new offices while others shuffle their workforce, some career choices are suddenly much more exciting, while others . . . not so much. So, if you knew everything you know […] -
Job Survey, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Travel / Vacation
Featured Survey Results: Vacation Daze
We received 1,046 responses to last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on vacation time. Roughly two thirds of respondents reported that their firms offered four weeks of vacation, but sixteen percent are at three-week firms, six percent are at firms with only two weeks of vacation, and a handful are at firms with but […] -
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Featured Job Survey: Have Resume, Will Travel?
In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey results, we explored which practice areas are hottest and slowest in various markets. With real estate and transactional work slowing in many markets, but heating up in Dubai, and some firms expanding into Houston (McDermott), Charlotte (McGuireWoods), Boston (Locke Lord) and the Bay Area (just about everybody) […] -
Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Survey Results: Paternity Leave
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve posted four sets of results from last month’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements: • your thoughts on whether you would rather work fewer hours for less pay, • a running table of firms’ paid maternity leave policies (mirrored here), • a breakdown of […] -
Biglaw, Job Survey
Featured Survey Results: Got Work? (Part Deux)
Last year, we asked you whether work was busy at your firms, and found that patent attorneys were particularly busy nationwide, while associates in real estate and structured finance were pretty slow in many markets. In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we revisited the topic, and asked which practice areas are hottest (or […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Job Survey, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Travel / Vacation
Featured Job Survey: On Vacation
We received quite a few tips and comments after posting yesterday’s table of clerkship bonuses, so we have updated the table (four times) to reflect new information on Arnold & Porter, Covington & Burling, King & Spalding, Patterson Belknap, Wilson Sonsini, Debevoise, Katten Muchin, and Munger Tolles. We also updated the running table of maternity […] -
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Featured Job Survey: Is Your Practice Hot Or Not?
Last year, we asked you whether work was busy at your firms, and only about half of you said yes. Patent attorneys were particularly busy nationwide (and remain quite popular), while associates in real estate and structured finance were pretty slow in many markets. In today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we dig a little […] -
Job Survey, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Featured Job Survey: Firms With Benefits
We received 826 responses to last Thursday’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, which asked you what kind of benefits, leave or part-time policies you would most like your employers to offer. Both men and women found a reduced-hours track with lower compensation a particularly appealing policy, with roughly a third of male respondents and a […] -
Clerkships, Job Searches, Job Survey
Featured Job Survey: Hiring Clerks?
There have been some rumblings on this blog of a slowdown in judicial clerk hiring, even as firms raise clerkship bonuses to $50K. Today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey digs a little deeper into who is (or isn’t) hiring judicial clerks, and what their bonuses look like. Update: This survey is now closed. Click here […] -
Job Searches, Job Survey
Featured Job Survey: Does the In-House Always Win?
We received 1,062 responses to our ATL / Lateral Link survey on in-house aspirations. As shown in the charts below, over half of associates are satisfied or even “very satisfied” with their current positions, but about half would still like to go in-house. Associate Responses: Are You Satisfied With Your Current Job? Associate Responses: Would […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Job Survey: What About The Children?
So far, we’ve posted three sets of results from last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements: • your thoughts on whether you would rather work fewer hours for less pay, • a running table of firms’ paid maternity leave policies (mirrored here and updated today to add King & Spalding), […] -
Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Job Survey: Updated Leave and Flexible Schedules
Results are still flowing in from last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements. So far, we’re up to almost 700 responses, and we have received quite a few tips about maternity leave. The running table of firms’ paid maternity leave policies that we posted yesterday has now been updated to […] -
Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Survey Results: Maternity Leave
Yesterday, we posted some preliminary results from last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements. Today, we’re going to get a little bit deeper into the maternity leave data. We now have more than 600 responses, and roughly three-fifths of respondents have reported that their firms offer twelve weeks of paid […] -
Billable Hours, Job Survey
Featured Survey Results: Less Billing, Tastes Great?
We received about 600 responses to last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements. One reader made a very interesting suggestion in the comments: Justin – how about you keep a list of where law firms are on parental leave? Sort of like the list Lat kept going showing who was […] -
In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Job Survey
Featured Job Survey: The Grass Is Always Greener . . . In-House?
Earlier this week, we told you about client contact, and asked you about your firm’s leave policies (that survey’s still live, by the way). In today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we explore whether you’d like to leave your firm to become a client: Update: This survey is now closed. Click here for the results. […] -
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Featured Job Survey Results: Making Rain?
We received over five hundred responses to last Thursday’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on client contact, and most of you have been enjoying extensive client interaction: Results: How many times have you interacted with clients in the last month? Of course, not all client contacts are created equal: About 93% of respondents spoke with […] -
Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Job Survey: Is Your Firm Family Friendly?
This blog has posted several entries over the last few months, and even this morning, about law firms updating their parental leave policies. That’s a great trend in the industry, but there’s probably not an associate pirate out there who doesn’t still get at least a call a week from associates who want to go […]