Trendsetting

More Jobs, Better Training, Lower Pay: Welcome To The Future Of Biglaw

Good news: a major law firm is hiring! The salary might not be "market," but a job's a job, right?

A Trend in the Making: Falling Law School Tuition? Let’s Make It Happen, People!

Does the law of gravity apply to law school tuition? Shockingly enough, the answer might be yes.

Is On-Shore Outsourcing the Biglaw Wave of the Future?

Hot on the heels of support staff layoffs and on-shore outsourcing efforts at O’Melveny & Myers, we have news of another law firm doing the exact same thing. Except this law firm has figured out a way to do it with half the tears and way less relocation angst. On-shore outsourcing might be better for […]

A Trend in the Making: Shrinking Law Schools?

Critics of the legal-education industrial complex would probably like to see some radical changes in the U.S. law school system. They’d probably want a few dozen law schools to shut down entirely, to reduce the glut of lawyers in this country. Barring that, they might want to see law schools reduce tuition dramatically — not […]

Law Schools Join the Ranks of Institutions Averse To Profiteering During a Rough Economy

You can’t call it a trend just yet, but the University of New Hampshire School of Law has joined Maryland Law and Miami Law in the fight to keep law school tuition down during a still-recovering economy. The school reports it will not be raising tuition for the 2011-2012 academic year. It’s a sad state […]

Always a Trendsetter, Cadwalader Now Experiencing Thievery

Here at Above the Law, we like to know what’s going to happen, before it happens. We therefore pay special attention to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. The firm is a trendsetter of sorts — at least for things that are bad. Few remember, but Cadwalader faced down a bed bug epidemic back in 2007, long […]