There has been a great deal of discussion lately over at The Faculty Lounge regarding declines in law school admissions standards, declines in bar passage rates, and the general relationship between LSAT scores and bar passage. Much of this discussion
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“PwC expands into legal market”
That’s the headline from the Financial Review, a leading Australian business newspaper. The plot is nearly identical to a September post regarding accounting firms in India. See India, Big 4 and Elite Law Firms in Direct Competition for Highly Lucrative…
The UK’s Apprenticeship Levy — a helpful reset to the legal labor market?
The Law Society Gazette reports a new apprenticeship levy that will be imposed in 2017 on UK employers with more than £3 million in payroll. The Gazette notes that the levy, which totals .5% of payroll, will sweep in nearly…
Law Firm Lateral Hiring – Process Becoming More Important that Rain
What is the impact of longer hours on lawyer satisfaction?
Every lawyer, law professor, law student, and legal commentator has an opinion on this question. Today we can test our views against actual data. This fall, Lawyer Metrics was given the opportunity to analyze survey data supplied to us from…
A Critical, Existential, Sisyphus-ean View of Business Associations (and Maybe Lawyering)….
By Jeff Lipshaw
I’m participating this week in a micro-symposium sponsored by the AALS Section on Agency, Partnership, LLCs, and Unincorporated Associations, taking place online at our sister Business Law Prof Blog. The topic concerns alternative business structures, and whether their focus…
The Power of Focus
Several years ago an Indiana Law alum told me about a video on the Internet that I needed to watch. It was a 1997 Q&A session with Steve Jobs at a conference of Apple developers. Jobs had been fired by…
Part IV: Alumni Surveys, The Varied Career Paths of Law School Graduates
This is Part IV of a blog series that focuses on alumni surveys based on data for Northeastern Law alumni who graduated between 1971 and 2012 (n = 833, 21% response rate). Prior posts covered data related to the pre-law…
Part III: Alumni Surveys, Responses on the Law School Experience
Part II of this blog series reported that the top motivations to attend law school have remained the same for over four decades, at least for Northeastern University School of Law (NUSL). Alumni reported the same underlying desire: to build…
Part II: Alumni Surveys, Pre-Law Characteristics and Motivations
Building on the introduction (Part I) of this blog series, our alumni survey of Northeastern University School of Law yielded cross-sectional data that span graduates from 1971 to 2012. Because of the large time span, some of the…