National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
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Law Schools, Money, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Public Interest
As Law School Costs Skyrocket, Is It Still Feasible To Pursue A Public Interest Career?
Should you go to law school to pursue a public interest career? Sure, but only if you want to be as poor as your clients! -
Accounting / Accountants, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Student Loans, Unemployment
Dear Prudence: My Husband Is Contemplating Ruining Our Lives By Going To Law School
Dear Prudence sets the record straight for the wife of a future law student when it comes to student debt and entry-level jobs. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
2nd Circuit, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Fashion, Job Searches, Law Schools, Morning Docket, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Partner Issues, Real Estate, Shoes, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 10.17.12
* Oh, by the way Dewey & LeBoeuf partners, the little contribution plan you signed that received court approval last week might not protect you from your former landlord’s claims for back rent. Hope you’ve all got an extra $45 million sitting in the bank. [Am Law Daily]
* Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette Johnson will finally get to claim her seat as chief justice of the state’s high court after official judicial recognition — on both the state and federal level — that the year 1994 does indeed come before 1995. [Bloomberg]
* No matter how hard law school administrators wish it were so, or how much they beg Jim Leipold of NALP, he’s never going to be able to describe the current entry-level legal job market as “good.” [WSJ Law Blog]
* NYU Law School is changing its third-year program in the hopes of making a “good” market materialize. If you ship students to foreign countries for class, maybe they’ll get jobs there. [DealBook / New York Times]
* “[W]e’re determined to do everything we can to help them find jobs and meaningful careers.” We bet Brooklyn Law’s dean is also determined to avoid more litigation about employment statistics. [New York Law Journal]
* Has the other shoe finally dropped? After the Second Circuit ruled that YSL could sell monochromatic shoes, the fashion house decided to drop its trademark counterclaims against Christian Louboutin. [Businessweek]
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Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
New York to $190K? Keep Dreaming! New NALP Report Says Median Associate Salaries Have Slumped
While that $160K salary sweet spot for first-years is still the norm in many large markets, it’s no longer as widespread as it once was... -
Biglaw, Cold Offers, Layoffs, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), No Offers, Summer Associates
Nationwide Layoff and No-Offer Watch: In Defense of Winston & Strawn
We covered recent associate layoffs and summer associate no-offers at Winston & Strawn. Here's some follow-up -- including words in support of the firm. -
Associate Salaries, Money, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Starting Salaries Are Swirling Down The Drain
NALP figures paint dismal picture of the salary realities for recent law school graduates... -
Law Schools, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Non-Sequiturs, Police
Non-Sequiturs: 06.08.12
* How many cops does it take to kill a man? [Simple Justice] * Professor Paul Campos has been having fun with the NALP numbers. Well, fun for him, and for me. Less fun for anybody unlucky enough to have been part of the class of 2011. [Inside the Law School Scam] * And if you don’t like to read, here’s some video about how bad the job market is for the class of 2011. ARE YOU LISTENING, PROSPECTIVE LAW STUDENTS? CAN YOU TAKE IN AND PROCESS INFORMATION? [Bloomberg Law] * How come my anonymous readers don’t drop $25 million on me? I’d name a whole wing of my new house after them. And give them a T-shirt. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * In the recession, we cling to what we have instead of striking out into the unknown. In related news: if you leave your law job, there’ll be a stampede of people happy to take your spot. [What About Clients?] * I don’t even think you should be allowed to defend yourself pro se. [Underdog] * Southwestern Law’s Dean Bryant Garth is stepping down. One of these days, somebody will let me run a law school. [Southwestern Law School] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Unemployment
How Did the Class of 2011 Fare in the Legal Job Market?
Law school graduates from the class of 2010 fared poorly in terms of employment. The class of 2011 couldn't have done any worse. Right? - 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… -
Conferences / Symposia, Job Searches, Law Schools, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Small Law Firms
NALP 2012: Does Your School Even Know How to Get You a Small Firm Job?
Elie Mystal is here to report on how to get a job at a small law firm. Because chances are, the career counselors at your law school aren’t really going to be able to help you. -
Biglaw, Conferences / Symposia, Headhunters / Recruiters, Job Searches, Law Schools, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Paralegals, Summer Associates
NALP 2012: Good News, We've Probably Hit the Bottom
Elie Mystal is at the 2012 National Association of Law Placement conference. Every year, NALP tells conference attendees the trends in legal hiring. This year, the numbers are worse than ever! And that’s the good news.... -
Biglaw, Interview Stories, Job Searches, john quinn, Law Schools, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Summer Associates
Quinn Emanuel Takes a New Approach to On-Campus Recruiting
Nobody has ever accused Quinn Emanuel of being too conventional. Now the firm is experimenting with a new approach to on-campus recruiting. What does John Quinn have up his sleeve? -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Texas
NALP 'Buying Power' Index Says Everything Is Bigger in Texas
The National Association for Law Placement has produced an extremely useful chart for people trying to figure out where to start their Biglaw careers. They've listed the cities that give you the most bang for your buck if you land a high paying Biglaw job. And boy, are New York City associates going to feel stupid.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Unemployment
The ABA Focuses on Losing the 'Lost Generation,' One Statistic at a Time
Back in June, it became clear that the class of 2010 had some of the worst employment outcomes of the last 20 years. We knew this because of the way NALP categorized its data, differentiating between jobs that require and don't require bar passage, and between full-time and part-time jobs. But apparently the American Bar Association isn't interested in helping people understand these outcomes on a school-by-school basis. The ABA doesn't want you to know how schools fared in finding full-time legal employment for graduates of the class of 2010....
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Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), No Offers, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Offer Rates: Another Update(Now we'd like to hear about the no-offering....)
Welcome to our latest round-up of summer associate offer rate news. This post contains the latest list of law firms and offices with 100 percent offer rates. Time to pop the bubbly.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Baseball, Biglaw, Books, Election 2012, Federal Judges, Gambling / Gaming, Gay, Immigration, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Non-Sequiturs, Politics
Non-Sequiturs: 08.04.11
* Is a Ropes & Gray attorney behind a shell company that gave $1 million to the Romney campaign? [The Docket / Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly] * Working on the matter pro bono, Skadden wants greater cooperation from the NYPD in the case of a missing eight-year-old boy. [WSJ Law Blog] * Breaking down the Alex […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
The ABA Will Work With NALP On Law School Transparency
Are you ready for some change? We’re about to see if two organizations worth about a quarter when it comes to regulating law schools can add up to a dollar’s worth of law school transparency. The American Bar Association has adopted new reporting standards for law school graduate employment data. And at least for the […] -
Job Searches, Law Schools, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Latest Job Data From NALP Confirm That Class of 2010 Is Lost
“[T]he new NALP numbers confirm that the job market is terrible for young lawyers (aka the “lost generation”).” I wrote that last year about the class of 2009. And last year things were way better than this year. This year’s NALP employment numbers are out, and they show that the class of 2010 had some […] -
Conferences / Symposia, LSAT, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Quote of the Day
Fun Fact of the Day: Surprising?
Performance on the LSAT is negatively correlated with networking ability. — Vice Provost and Professor Sheldon Zedeck of UC Berkeley, at a panel entitled Beyond Grades and Scores: Factors Predicting Lawyer Success and Effectiveness, at the annual NALP conference (which concluded yesterday). -
Biglaw, Conferences / Symposia, Fenwick & West, Howrey LLP, Killing Lockstep, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
NALP 2011: Performance-Based Compensation Systems
The official title of the NALP conference panel that I attended on merit-based compensation contained a playful shout-out to Sarah Palin: “How Is That Performance-Based Compensation System Working for Ya?” The panel was originally supposed to have featured a representative of the now-defunct Howrey law firm. So the snarky answer to the question presented might […] -
Biglaw, Blogging, Conferences / Symposia, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Vault rankings
NALP 2011: Law Firm Transparency - From Black Boxes to Glass Houses
Greetings from lovely Palm Springs, California, home to the 2011 annual education conference of the Association for Legal Career Professionals (better known to many of you as NALP). The setting is beautiful, the weather is fabulous, and the conference panels have been stimulating thus far. Who needs SXSW? Yesterday I attended a very interesting session, […]