According to the latest report by BLS, professional and technical services showed job expansion running at 8.5% and the only subgroup that showed a decline was legal services (- 1.8%). On WSJ Law Blog, Joe Palazzlo reports that while the…
Posts Tagged ‘Labor’
Cooley Dean Says Job Prospects For Law Graduates Are Strong
12
Dec
Nelson Miller, dean of Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Grand Rapids campus penned an editorial published in The Careerist last week. He paints a rosy picture of the legal jobs market using Bureau of Labor Statistics data. He cites 1,040,000…
Hello Congress, Want to Eliminate Wasteful Public Spending in the Legal Academy?
30
Nov
Why do we keep reading that new law schools are being launched when there is and has been for some time an oversupply of lawyers in the labor market? Because employment prospects look great based on fudged placement data? I…
Short Takes On The News
26
Sep
The National Labor Relations Board issues a preliminary report covering investigations where an employee’s use of social media clashed with an employer’s social media policy. Though there have been reports where an employee’s criticism of an employer has been protected,…
Cooley Law Wants to Set the Record Straight: Employment in the Legal Profession
20
Sep
Cooley Law is producing a series of reports on employment in the legal profession. Report One summarizes data produced by the U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding national employment and unemployment for workers in legal occupations….
The Plight of the JD Working Class: BLS Stats on Last Month’s Legal Industry Job Growth
06
Sep
Typically around Labor Day, the major media will produce stories about the plight of the working class. This is the year that the working class of employed, under-employed and unemployed newly minted lawyers reached the attention of the major, non-legal,…
Friday Fun: OK, so it isn’t a Guinness ad
02
Sep
And I have no idea if the Japanese celebrate Labor Day but … . Hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe Labor Day weekend. Here’s this week’s Friday Fun video: YouTube clip. Hat tip to Butler County Law Library’s Angie…
Paradigm Shift Ignored: On Reasons Why Law Schools Admit So Many Students When Their Employment Prospects are So Dismal
05
Jul
Commenting on the EMSI estimate of the surplus of law school grads on a state-by-state basis which was reported on LLB at Cut the Glut: State-by-State Empirical Labor Market Model for Law School Grads, in The Coming Crunch for Law…
Cut the Glut: State-by-State Empirical Labor Market Model for Law School Grads
29
Jun
In The Oversupply of Lawyers in America, ATL’s Elie Mystal asks “if we’re producing twice as many lawyers than we need, is it time to close half of the law schools?” I’m inclined to believe Elie’s answer is “yes.” I’m…
