Welcome to the third annual ABA Journal Blawg 100—the best legal blogs as selected by the Journal’s editors. This year we did something even more blog-like. We asked our readers…
Regarding “No More Kabuki Confirmations,” October, about U.S. Supreme Court nominees and better ways of handling this challenge, I offer my view as one recently…
There always have been legions of disaffected and unhappy lawyers. Few, however, thought there were any alternative ways of practicing law that might change their outlook.
Deferrals, long periods of unemployment and layoffs are no longer the black marks they once were for those lawyers looking to find a new or a first job.
A law graduate denied bar admission because of unpaid student loans saw another setback earlier this month, when a New York appeals court refused to reconsider its decision in the…
The 38 first-year associates who start Monday at Haynes and Boone offices in Texas will do so at a $145,000 annual salary—although that may only be for the last month…
A legal career consultant is scouring job openings listed on the websites of the nation’s top 100 law firms and posting them on her new blog, RecruiterEsq.com.
Law firms are laying off lawyers with an eye toward cost savings. But Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli says there are also costs associated with a “brain drain” and they…
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