In the latest announcement of yet another BigLaw firm delaying the start date for incoming first-year associates, Morrison & Foerster has pushed it back from November 2009 to April 2010…
New law grads who think they can find refuge in a government job in a tight employment market may be in for disappointment, according to a career services official at…
Sixty-four law schools didn’t disclose the percentage of their 2007 class employed at graduation for a ranking done by U.S. News & World Report, opting instead for…
The disastrous economy is creating new career issues for fledgling legal eagles seeking to soar as law firm associates. But the overall problem is still the same: How to look…
Finding that a legal United States resident who served four years in the Navy had exhausted her administrative remedies, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has derailed…
The law school dean in the news earlier this year for his charge that some law schools are “exploiting” unsuccessful students is getting more press attention for his predictions about…
Summer associate jobs have traditionally been filled with parties and perks designed to lure the students into full-time employment. No more. As law firms adjust their programs,…
As a growing number of law firms curtail their summer programs, even law students lucky enough to have landed jobs as summer associates can’t be sure they’ll still have them…
Despite layoffs, deferrals, depressing U.S. job stats and anecdotal complaints about a lousy legal employment economy, students consider law school a good option for waiting out the financial crisis.
The economic downturn has produced a record number of cab drivers in New York, and one of them is a former Gambian lawyer who is hoping to get his U.S.…
Dechert announced in an internal memo on Wednesday that its 63-member associate class will be split into three groups and be assigned one of three start dates. The first group…
A new legal publication is being launched today by a group of influential law reviews. But, unlike traditional law reviews, the Legal Workshop isn’t intended to speak…
A sort of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game at a law school last weekend shed light on a possible future for BigLaw that includes lower salaries and more training for…
An e-mail by an anonymous self-described second-year law student at a first-tier New York law school tells the story of his life without medical coverage.
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