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Job Searches, Law Schools
Quick Question: Does Almost Every 2010 Columbia Student Have a Job?
1Ls are getting settled into their routine at Columbia Law School. Apparently, that routine includes receiving super positive messages from Columbia Law Dean, David Schizer. The dean emailed all of the new 1Ls and communicated some very positive stats about the law school. It’s never too early for law students to think about their employment […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Job Searches, Law Schools
The ABA Is Slowly Coming Around on Law School Transparency
For the second time in a month, the people at the American Bar Association are making noises about taking their role in regulating law schools more seriously. Earlier this month, the ABA’s “recession czar,” Allan Tanenbaum, criticized the new law school opening at Belmont. Today the National Law Journal reports that new ABA President Steve […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Job Searches, Law Schools
If You Hire Miami Law Students, The School Will Pick Up The Bill
Say this for the University of Miami Law School: it tried to warn its own students that there were too many of them. Remember, back in 2009, Miami actually deferred incoming 1Ls. The class was oversubscribed; too many people wanted to go to law school. Dean Patricia White even told prospective students: “I urge you […]
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Job Searches, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Small Law Firms
In This Market You Don't Have to Try That Hard to Get People to Work For You
It shouldn’t be that hard to find a qualified legal secretary. Actually, in this market, you can probably find a J.D. who will gladly answer phones and make copies for the chance to do anything with “legal'” in the title. But the firm of Minor & Brown, a small law firm based in Denver, still […] -
Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools
SMU Law Dean Knew About Terrible Job Market in 2008: But Did He Tell Anybody?
Students at the SMU Dedman School of Law are having a tough time securing jobs. Not shocking, I know. (But please send us your thoughts on how recruiting is going, or text us at 646-820-TIPS.) The legal job market has been so bad for so long that it hardly even feels like news when we […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Rankings, Summer Associates, Willkie Farr
Summer Associate Job Survey: The Kids Are Still Stressed
The American Lawyer just released its annual summer associate job survey. Back in the day, law students paid a lot of attention to how summers before them enjoyed their summer associate experience. Of course, back in the day the summer associate experience used to be a 12-week-long recruiting event. Now, it’s a 12 (or 10, […] -
Bad Ideas, Craigslist, Job Searches
Would You Work for a New York Law School Student... For Free?
Self-awareness: it’s a really important character trait. As you go about your day, your life, and your life’s work, it’s important to have an understanding of who you are and how you are perceived. But what if your self-perception is grossly misaligned with objective reality? Well, then things could get tricky. You might make a […] -
Career Alternatives, DealBreaker, Job Searches, Layoffs
From Laid-Off Lawyer to... Cleaning Lady!
A Dealbreaker reader was out and about on the Upper West Side, and something caught his eye. He moved in for a closer look, snapped a photo, and sent it to Dealbreaker. Our colleague Bess Levin has been having a grand old time ever since. Me? I just want people to see it before they […] - Sponsored
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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 […] -
Job Searches
Post-Labor Day Report Reveals More Labor for Lawyers
I hope all of you had a fine long weekend. I also hope at least some of you have some skills at building infrastructure. But maybe you have some legal skills. If you do, the market for your talents is ever-so-slightly recovering. The latest jobs report shows that the American economy stinks as a whole, […] -
Biglaw, Blog Wars, Federal Government, Job Searches, Public Interest, Summer Associates
The World Hates Lawyers: Mainstream Media Manages to Criticize Biglaw Summers AND Public Sector Lawyers in the Same Breath
Earlier this week, Conor Friedersdorf, writing for The Atlantic, poured a big bottle of haterade all over the legal profession. More specifically, he criticized the way “Ivy League” lawyers are recruited, and the “palpable sense of entitlement” they exhibit even when they don’t take Biglaw bucks and instead work for the government. Here’s the set […] -
California, Cars, Job Searches
UCLA Law Offers Most Depressing Job to a Law Student (2010 Edition)
It’s been a while since we’ve had a true contestant for the title of most depressing job offered to a law student. Sure, there have been a lot of jobs that offer $10 an hour, or even $0 an hour, for legal work. But at least those jobs were offering the opportunity to put long […] -
Cheapness, Job Searches, Summer Associates
Firms Now Looking for Unpaid Summer Associates
It sounds like something firms would try to keep on the down low, through anonymous postings on Craigslist. But in the new economy, it’s apparently no big deal for law firms to ask career services offices to send over students who are so desperate they’re willing to work for free. The ABA Journal reports: Law […]
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Job Searches, Rudeness, Summer Associates
Dear Law Firms: Canceling Summer Programs After People Bid on Those Programs Is Bad Form
Late last night, we received a tip that has become all too common in the dog days of August. This tipster sent us this letter from the career services office at Georgetown Law: Haynes and Boone, LLP has just informed us that they will no longer have a summer program in their Washington, DC and […] -
Blogging, Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans
Scamblogs Get Some Mainstream Media Attention
It’s been ten days since I last logged on to “the internet.” Ten days since I picked up a newspaper or let the dancing visions on MSNBC poison my mind. Ten days since I’ve tapped into the 140-character pulse of the world. While I’ve had my head in the sand, it appears that the mainstream […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools, pls hndle thx, Ridiculousness
Pls Hndle Thx: But I'm in MENSA!
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com. Dear ATL, We’re at NYLS and I’m in an argument with my friends for resumes for interviews with law firms. I’m a member of MENSA and I think it’s okay to put “Member, MENSA” under my interests on my resume. Some of […] -
Bad Ideas, Job Searches, Law Schools, Student Loans
Unemployed J.D. Goes on a Hunger Strike
As of this writing, Ethan Haines, writer of the UnemployedJD blog, has gone 32 hours without food. I think the kid might be joking, but Haines said he is going on a hunger strike — to convince law schools to be more transparent about the employment options of graduates, before the schools rope them into […] -
Job Searches, Old People
What Can You Do With A J.D.? Whatever You Do, Don't Get Old.
Here’s a fun little story about the immense, door-opening possibilities you can enjoy once you have a J.D. and/or legal experience. From the ABA Journal: With 23 years of legal experience, Laurie-[E]llen Shumaker thought she would soon find another job when she was laid off in January 2009 from her position as a shopping center […] -
Craigslist, Job Searches, Public Interest
'The Job Market Is Even Worse Than Many of Us Thought'
Desperate times call for measures to take advantage of the desperate. Why pay California lawyers $10 an hour when they’re willing to work for free? And not just willing, but eager to provide their services on a volunteer basis. We wrote before about the public sector utilizing the unpaid legal workforce when the Marin County […] -
Job Searches, Layoffs
Bureau of Labor Statistics Slows the Good News Train
Over the past few months, it’s seemed like the legal economy was picking back up. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, May saw job gains in the legal sector. June was not so kind. Am Law Daily reports that the legal economy isn’t out of the toilet just yet: After what initially seemed like […]