Sophia Nelson, who worked as a lawyer at Holland & Knight, is joining with other black attorneys and professionals in a new support group to discuss the kinds of personal…
Law practice in the future will involve the mechanization of legal tasks into standard systems, creating job losses for lawyers who don’t evolve, Richard Susskind argues in his new book…
A Wall Street Journal column asserts that the safety net doesn’t extend to the growing professional class in the United States, and airs the possibility that part of these jobs…
As laid-off lawyers look for work, they are competing not only against each other but a fresh crop of would-be legal eagles about to graduate from law school within the…
In an unprecedented move, the 300-lawyer Philadelphia district attorney’s office has revoked its earlier offers to all 12 of the new attorneys who were scheduled to start work there this…
As the dismal economy has continued on a downward spiral this month, so has the legal industry, with February layoffs exceeding January’s by a considerable margin. January’s…
Rolling layoffs at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton will have resulted, by the end of the week, in about 25 lawyers having been let go since January,…
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