National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
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Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
A New Approach to Fall Recruiting
Back in February of this year, the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) announced a minor change to its recruiting guidelines. I was underwhelmed. New associates are graduating law school in a terrible job market, firms are sick of being forced to hire people two years before they know their staffing needs, and NALP is […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Fall Recruiting Glitters in the Golden State
Greetings, loved ones. Hello there, California girls (and boys). We hope that you’re doing well. Gay marriage might be on hold for now, but there are other unions to celebrate on the West Coast. Like unions between law firms and job-seeking law students. As we’ve discussed in these pages before, on-campus interviewing at law schools […] - Sponsored
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NALP Gives More Information on Expected Lawyer Salary
I’ve been critical of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) in the past, but you have to give them credit for at least one thing: they have been tirelessly trying to make people understand that most lawyers do not make $160,000 a year straight out of law school. In fact, NALP has been at […]
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Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
New NALP Numbers Are Out -- and as Bad as Ever
This isn’t going to come as a galloping shock to anybody here, but the new NALP numbers confirm that the job market is terrible for young lawyers (aka the “lost generation”) : Analyses of the NALP Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2009 reveal an overall employment rate of 88.3% of graduates […] -
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NALP 2010: NALP Executive Director James Leipold Talks to the 'Lost Generation'
I’m back in New York City — a place that has infinitely more Puerto Rican culture than a Hilton in Puerto Rico. But I still have a few more write-ups from the 2010 NALP Annual Education Conference. I’d be remiss if I didn’t bring back a little information for the hordes of lawyers laid off […] -
Conferences / Symposia, Media and Journalism, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
NALP 2010: Dealing with Above the Law Online Media
We’re on to day 3 of the NALP conference. With all the racial tensions going on back home, day 3 has been a pleasant reminder that once properly tanned, everybody basically looks the same. Of course, there is a downside: I can no longer figure out which panelists may be genetically predisposed to say something […] -
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NALP 2010: Résumé Advice = Mind the Gaps
Day 2 of the 2010 NALP Annual Education Conference had a remarkably different feel from day 1. Apparently, it took everybody a day to realize that they were in Puerto freaking Rico. After really sticking to business casual on the first day, day 2 saw the introduction of something I’d call “business beachware.” Men were […] -
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NALP 2010: New Litigators be Warned
As you may have heard, I’m in Puerto Rico covering the 2010 NALP Annual Education Conference. There are so many panels and talks scheduled at precisely the same time that I’ve had to prioritize what will matter most to ATL readers. I’m tweeting about the conference, so if you want me to check something out, […] - Sponsored
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Summer Offer Rates: Vault Top 25 Are Hot
On Friday, we told you that NALP released its updated forms on firm offer rates. There is a wealth of information in the NALP data, and an Above the Law reader teased out the summer offer rate information: I’m sure you’ve noticed, some firms only give NALP multi-office reports, some give multi-office reports in conjunction […] -
Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), No Offers, Summer Associates
Updated NALP Forms: What Were the Real Offer Rates?
It’s a wonderful time of year. No more innuendo: NALP forms have been updated, and firms have had to come clean with their statistics on summer hiring. Look up your firm here. Let’s crowdsource this baby. You look at your firm and tell us in the comments if somebody surprisingly massacred their summer class, and […] -
Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Statistics About the Lost Generation
Breaking news from the land of totally obvious statistics: the class of 2009 got rogered, but good. The National Law Journal reports that the NALP numbers are out, and the statistics confirm what we all already know: The median number of offers by U.S. law firms for 2010 summer associate positions was seven, according to […] -
Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
More Fall-Out From NALP's Minor Recruiting Change
On Friday we reported that, after months of discussion, NALP would be changing to the 45-day open offer period to a 28-day open offer period, and otherwise leaving fall recruiting to proceed much as it has been. Today, we’re learning why NALP decided to abandon more ambitious plans to actually make recruiting better for students, […] -
Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Meet the New NALP Recruiting Guidelines, They're Substantially Similar to the Old NALP Recruiting Guidelines.
If it seems I’m hard on the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), understand that it is out of love. We want NALP to succeed. We want them to gather reliable information from law firms; we want them to provide reasonable guidance for law students, schools, and firms. Having an organization like NALP sounds like […]
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NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Vault rankings, Women's Issues
Vault Explains Why It's Better Than NALP
Yesterday we wrote about NALP’s decision to allow firms to blur the equity / non-equity partner distinction. Today, the WSJ Law Blog, the ABA Journal, and Business Insider have coverage of the issue. But NALP isn’t the only organization attempting to gather information on law firm partnerships. Vault is also in that game, and according […] -
Gender, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Partner Profits, Women's Issues
NALP Won't Distinguish Between Equity and Non-Equity Partners: Women, Minorities, and Lovers of Truth Get Angry
About a week ago, K&L Gates’s Peter Kalis called for the abolition of NALP. Kalis was focused on NALP’s well-documented problems trying to guide the recruitment of fresh talent to Biglaw. Kalis isn’t alone in thinking that NALP does an ineffective job setting out legal recruitment guidelines. But if the organization can’t even be trusted […] -
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Hell of a (Jones) Day, Today
We’ve devoted a lot of coverage to the NALP guidelines regarding summer associate hiring. At the beginning of the recruiting season, I suggested that the NALP guidelines were so toothless that law students should disregard them, just as the law firms have done. During the fall recruiting season, Sullivan & Cromwell was eager to ignore […] -
Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Summer Associates
New NALP Rules Could Be on the Way
If Kanye West talked about this past fall recruiting season, he’d probably say: “Biglaw doesn’t care about the NALP people.” This fall, we saw firms give the suggested 45-day open offer period an extended middle finger. Harvard Law School’s career services dean had to lead a revolt against Sullivan & Cromwell. I even suggested that […] -
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Is It Time to Revamp the NALP Rules?(And: Another firm abandons the 45-day rule.)
“There are no NALP police.”— James G. Leipold, Executive Director, NALP Oh, but wouldn’t it be fun if there were? Let’s use our imaginations…. As the Bad Boys theme song plays in the background, a bespectacled Jim Leipold, accompanied by a gaggle of burly NALP goons, breaks down the door at 111 Huntington Avenue — […]