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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.09.11
* This identical-twin date-rape ad probably wasn’t vetted through legal. [Copyranter] * Adultery is still illegal in Colorado because…? Maybe state legislators are worried that a “favors adultery” attack ad could work? [WSJ Law Blog] * The legal industry added jobs in April. [Am Law Daily] * Law firms still find the time to be […] -
Bar Exams, Job Searches, Law Schools, William and Mary School of Law
Law School Seeks One-Eyed Man To Lead Blind
You don’t see this every day. We have one law school offering the recent graduates of more prestigious law schools the job of teaching its law students how to pass the bar. It’s probably a great opportunity for people with only limited experience to get into legal academia, but man, I think it would make […] - 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 Searches, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans, U.S. News
Law Schools Lie Like A Dog... Or A Rug. A Dog On A Rug.
I graduated from Northwestern Law in 2009. It is now 2011, my loans are coming due (real due — not the fake, put ‘em in forebearance, due of yesteryear), and I am currently “employed” doing two things: reviewing documents at an embarrassing hourly wage on projects that start and stop without any sort of consistency, […]
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Job Searches, Parties
Evidence That Students At Top Schools Are Also Getting Crunched By The Weak Job Market
It’s a familiar refrain around these parts: it’s tough to find legal employment, unless you got into one of the top law schools. The prevailing wisdom is that students at the “best” (i.e., highest-ranked) law schools have been protected from the recession-dampened job market facing recent graduates of most American law schools. “HYS” (Harvard, Yale, […] -
Craigslist, Job Searches
Pathetic Job Potpourri
Whenever it feels like things are getting better in the legal economy, Craigslist shows up to remind everybody just how crappy things still are. If you want to know why there is a higher education bubble (and there is a higher education bubble), you need only look at the kind of pathetic salaries offered to […] -
Fashion, Gay, Job Searches, Libraries / Librarians, Non-Sequiturs, Pets
Non-Sequiturs: 03.31.11
* Ex-Marc Jacobs International CFO is suing the company for allegedly making him look at gay porn. Wait, you can sue people for that? [Fashionista] * Monty, the Yale Law School Therapy Dog, is already being billed out to the max. How long before Monty develops a superiority complex and a coke habit? [NPR] * […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools
Lewis & Clark Law School Subtly Insults Its Alumni
Recent law grads already know this, but humor me for a moment while I bring the law students up to speed. Dear 3Ls, if you graduate with no job, your school will start telling you about how your law school’s career services will still be available for you after you graduate. It’s February, so expect […] -
Advertising, Job Searches, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Announcing the New Above the Law Job Board
We previously mentioned it in passing, but in case you missed it, here’s the news: Above the Law has launched a new jobs board. This is a feature that readers and advertisers have been requesting for a while, and we’re delighted to roll it out. Right now the job board is in its infancy; it […] - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Biglaw, Grade Reform, Job Searches, Law Schools, LSAT
K&L Gates Still Cares About Your LSAT Score
Whether or not you think that the LSAT should be important, we all know that it is important. Scoring well on the LSAT is absolutely crucial to getting into a good law school. But usually the power of the LSAT fades after you matriculate to a law school. Usually people who are concerned about your […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools
Washington & Lee Law School Makes Lengthy Employment Disclosure to Prospective Students
Well, it’s a start. If you think it’s a good thing for law schools to be more transparent about the employment prospects of their students, then you have to applaud Washington & Lee Law School. The school had been building a bit of a reputation for taking an outside-the-box approach to legal education, but that […] -
Bad Ideas, Craigslist, Job Searches, Money, Nude Dancing, Women's Issues
Ladies: A J.D. Will NOT Prevent You From Fulfilling Your Stripper Dreams
Well, I think we are officially at the point in the legal economy where servicing law school debts is just like servicing an expensive drug habit. The parallels between the two are too great to ignore: Is it something you started because everybody else was doing it? Is it something you initially thought was a […] -
Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Job Searches, Law Schools, Outsourcing, Student Loans
Law Graduates: Welcome to Your 'Barely Legal' Future
I know lots of guys fantasize about boinking “barely legal” teenage girls. Not me, I like women: fully formed, adult women. There’s just something unseemly about older men salivating over girls who could have been in high school a year ago. Call me crazy, but it’s just more interesting as an adult to be intimate […] -
Canada, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
A Small Firm Renaissance?
It’s pretty clear that traditional large-firm jobs in big cities are still hard to come by. Even those cushy government jobs sometimes offered as a Biglaw equivalent are, as of last week, slightly less appealing. Well, fear not; the small law firm renaissance is here! A recent article in Lawyers Weekly suggests that small towns […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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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…
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Job Searches, Public Interest
Columbia Students Take to the Streets Sign Petition Over Public Interest Opportunities
As T-Fifty wisely noted this morning, getting a public interest legal job is a lot harder than it looks. You can’t spend two years of law school trying to get Biglaw to notice you, and only turn on your public interest charm after Biglaw rejects you. You can’t treat public interest jobs like the ugly […] -
Associate Advice, Job Searches
Pucker Up: Traits of Highly Effective Boot Lickers
Flattery will get you everywhere in your legal career. Really. Professors at the Kellogg Business School did an entire study and figured out that people with a legal background are especially skillful at sucking up — and sucking up will take you far. On the one hand, this shouldn’t surprise anybody. People kiss up because […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools
The Secret To Inflating Employment Rates? Only Survey Law Grads Who Are Employed
The following will shock no one who has been paying attention to how law schools are trying to openly game the U.S. News law school rankings and mislead prospective law students. When it comes time to collect employment data, law schools are selectively surveying their graduates: they’re seeking survey responses from employed graduates, while ignoring […] -
Craigslist, Job Searches
God Awful Jobs for Lawyers Potpourri
It’s been a while since we took a look at how little lawyers are willing to pay new attorneys. But today we’ve got two jobs which pay a combined salary of $1,000 per/month. I guess these employers are trying to ensure that whoever takes these jobs will show up to work on time because the […] -
Fashion, Job Searches, Law Schools
Will You Help Clothe a Law Student?
To steal a line from Sports Illustrated, I must bring you this week’s sign that the apocalypse is upon us. Law students are struggling to find jobs; this we know. But what I didn’t know until this very day was that law students are also struggling to find the basic professional necessities. Like clothes. That’s […] -
Craigslist, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money
The Barter Deal From a Law Graduate Craigslist Doesn't Want You To See
A posting on Raleigh’s Craigslist board has been flagged for abuse and taken down three times. This post doesn’t use profanity, it doesn’t offer illicit services, there’s really nothing offensive about it. The Craigslist moderators must just think that it’s a joke. But we’ve seen these type of ads before. A disgruntled law graduate goes […] -
Job Searches
Video Resume of a Rapping Lawyer
What you are about to see will entertain you. It will make you feel good about yourself. It will make you thankful that, despite whatever hurdles you have faced in your life, it never came to this. In fact, the first comment on the YouTube clip I’m about to show you was written by the […]