Topic
Hiring
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Securities Compliance Sentinel
Why You Need To Think Twice About That New Hire
By Joshua Horn
Starting July 1, member firms are required to have written procedures to verify the accuracy and completeness of the information in a registered representative’s U-4 within 30 days of the…
Law Deans on Legal Education Blog
How Soon Should We Communicate With Faculty Candidates?
It is clear from the Faculty Candidate Comments on Prawfsblawg that law schools do not always communicate quickly regarding hiring decisions. I think that common courtesy at least dicatates that…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Avoiding Mistakes in Nonprofit Personnel Matters
In You Hired Who? Top 10 Nonprofit Employment Mistakes, a brief article appearing a few weeks ago in The NonProfit Times, Siobhan Kelley discusses several mistakes to avoid in the…
Employer Labor Relations
NLRB and EEOC Leaders Caution Against Looking at Employment Applicants’ Social Media Activity
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Ashley K. Laken, Esq. On Wednesday, November 12, 2014, NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin, NLRB Board Member Harry Johnson, and EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum participated in a panel discussion…
The Faculty Lounge
Are VAPs and Other Job Candidates Writing Too Much?
In response to Zach Kramer's post on The Slow Writing Movement over at Prawfs, Glenn Cohen thoughtfully asks in the comments: Is more than one paper in work or published…
The Faculty Lounge
Hiring Announcement: Detroit Mercy (Commercial/Business)
From our friends in Detroit: The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law seeks to hire a tenured or tenure-faculty member to begin in August 2015 to teach commercial or…
The Faculty Lounge
Hiring Announcement: New Mexico
From an email that I received a few days ago: The University of New Mexico ("UNM") School of Law invites applications for a faculty position in the UNM Clinical Law…
Business of Law
LXBN TV: What Legal Marketers Can Do to Drive Connectivity in the Hiring of Lawyers
Relationships are crucial in so many aspects of life—but especially in business, and in the legal world. To build those relationships, it takes a sense of connectivity, and a focus…
The Faculty Lounge
Steven Salaita Redux
The reporting is fuzzy, but a University of Illinois undergrad who met with U of I Chancellor Phyllis Wise and other administrators states that Steven Salaita's name has been forwarded…
The Faculty Lounge
The Coming Lawyer Shortage
In this post, I will argue that within a few years there will be a shortage of entry-level lawyers. Law school enrollments have dropped so much that the demand for…