Category Archives: New Lawyers

Authenticity and lawyer recruitment

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 21, 2008
The editors at LegalWeek blogged recently about the results of the Sunday Times’
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Give up on anything but yourself

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 11, 2008
A thought-provoking post by Seth Godin today that isn’t really about politics, even though it asks whether Hillary Clinton should quit the Democratic race. What it’s really about is quitting, which Seth endorses in a book (that I endorse) called The Dip, and the danger of changing who you are in order to achieve your [...]
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Ontario bar admission overhaul, part 2

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 1, 2008
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here’s the conclusion of a two-part running commentary on the Interim Report To Convocation from the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Licensing and Accreditation Task Force. Again, this won’t be a blow-by-blow account of the report, but I do recommend you read the whole thing. This article (which is also appearing [...]
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Ontario bar admission overhaul, part 1

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 31, 2008
Yesterday, I posted a brief note about the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Licensing and Accreditation Task Force Interim Report To Convocation. Today, as promised, is the start of a two-part running commentary on what struck me as the most relevant or noteworthy aspects of the report. The first half, which I’ll address below, deals [...]
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Articling abolition? A groundbreaking LSUC report

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 30, 2008
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 Interim [...]
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Out of law school, into a recession

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 21, 2008
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 [...]
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Beyond work/life balance

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 18, 2008
Seth Godin, whom you’ll see linked fairly often in this space, writes about the new workaholic, the person who’s motivated not by fear but by passion: “The passionate worker doesn’t show up because she’s afraid of getting in trouble, she shows up because it’s a hobby that pays. …[T]he new face of work, at least [...]
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Eyes wide open

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 16, 2008
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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The good times rolled

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 9, 2008
A noteworthy item in the National Law Journal today, interesting for a bunch of reasons. The thrust of the article is that with a recession likely to arrive in 2008, associates at many top US firms are likely to see an end to the salary and bonus frenzy that has obsessed the legal press for [...]
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Large firms and law schools

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 8, 2008
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 [...]
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