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Category Archives: Careers
Trading money for time in your legal career
One of the unexpected benefits of this blog for me is the correspondence I’ve received from people who’ve read something I’ve written and have struck up a conversation about it. Recently, I received an email from a reader in the western US, and I thought you might be interested in both his question and my [...]
Also posted in New Lawyers, Satisfaction 4 Comments
Articling abolition? A groundbreaking LSUC report
It arrived quietly and without fanfare. I’ve seen no reports of it in the mainstream media or the legal press. In fact, the young-lawyer-focused law blogs Precedent and Law Is Cool are the only places I’ve seen talk about it so far. But the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Licensing and Accreditation Task Force [...]
Also posted in CLE, Governance, Law School, New Lawyers 4 Comments
Out of law school, into a recession
Everyone’s talking about it, so we might as well tackle it, too. It seems immaterial at this point whether the US economy is approaching, entering or currently experiencing a recession — it’s clear that the economy is slowing down and, more importantly, that people are getting worried and even scared about it. Some of this [...]
Also posted in Law School, New Lawyers 2 Comments
Eyes wide open
Over at the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog, they’ve published a Q-and-A with a young New York law grad named Kirsten Wolf. She graduated from Boston University Law School in 2002 right into the dot-com collapse and couldn’t find work, even though she was a B+ student. She has the courage and grace to admit [...]
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Large firms and law schools
Law students seem to believe in a hierarchy of legal job options: large law firms #1, small law firms #1A, everything else #2 and lower. One of the main reasons for this is that the legal profession believes in it, too.
You don’t have to buy your average private-firm lawyer too many drinks before they’ll tell [...]
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Mom and Dad, Esq.
Somebody asked me, after I returned to the office following three months’ parental leave, “Did you enjoy your time off?”
“I enjoyed the last three months immensely,” I said. “But trust me, ‘time off’ does not in any way describe it.”
If you’ve spent more than a few weeks raising a child hands-on, you’ll probably get that. [...]
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Going to town
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the numerous factors leading to the continuing contraction of the legal profession in smaller urban centers and in rural outposts. Here’s another one: competition for legal talent. Large-center practice is operating at unprecedented levels of profitability these days; even if small-center practices were still reasonably feasible, large-center [...]
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Don’t believe the hype
Whenever I drop by a law school campus, I’m reminded of one tremendous difference from 10 or 15 years ago: the near omni-presence of the practising bar. Back then, you noticed the profession on Careers Day (no OCIs back then) and maybe when the CBA President came to speak; otherwise, law practice might as well [...]
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Graduating into a recession