If you are not about to graduate from a top 10 national law school (even then, you damn well be pretty high in the class rank), your law school’s placement office staff may not adivse you of this except with…
Posts Tagged ‘grads’
Onshoring LPO Work Because Recent Law Grads Are Looking for Jobs, Any Sort of Jobs, Even Bottom Rung Jobs
16
Dec
In Ten for 2012: Top Ten Trends for Legal Outsourcing in 2012, Fronterion, an international consulting firm for outsourced legal services, identifies profitability squeeze on foreign LPO firms as one of the market dynamics that will impact the industry next…
Law School Supported Incubator Programs Starting to Catch On
16
Sep
In what was probably the first of its kind, CUNY Law created and incubator program in 2007 designed to help its grads launch careers as solo practitioners. CUNY’s incubator program offers low-cost office space, staff support and mentoring opportunities from…
Resistance? No Doubt, but the Timing is Ripe to Make an Attempt: Reforming Legal Research & Writing Instruction Requires Transforming the Status Quo Model of Law School Curriculum and Faculty Governance
06
Sep
Alas, I seriously doubt any such reform will by mandated by the ABA’s review of accredition standards since not interfering with the how the legal academy should produce “pratice ready” grads beyond aspirational goals for “outcomes” appears to be the…
"A picture is worth a thousand words" for illustrating law grads’ corporate sector career paths in the "New Normal"
16
Aug
The caption for the image, right, in Vanessa O’Connell’s WSJ story, Cut the Law Firms, Keep the Lawyers, reads “Dargie Anderson Bowersock had expected to go to a law firm—the “traditional path”— but now works in H-P’s legal department in…
The Stats Aren’t Pretty: NALP Reports on Class of 2010 Law Grads Average Starting Salaries
08
Jul
From NALP’s July 7, 2011 press release: As NALP reported in June, the employment profile for this class contrasts markedly from that of the previous class, with fewer employed graduates obtaining jobs in law firms — 50.9% compared with 55.9%…
Brief and Directly to the Point: Advice to Law Students and New Grads on Achieving a Successful Transition to "Real World" Legal Research
29
Jun
While less than two pages long (single-spaced), BYU law librarian Shawn G. Nevers’ Observations for Summer Research Success [SSRN] should be handed out to every summer clerk and new first year associate by law librarians who is now working with…
