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Hiring
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Employment Law Watch
Illinois Joins ‘Ban The Box’ Bandwagon by Limiting When Employers Can Ask For or Use Criminal History
James A. Burns, Jr. has posted a new article on Forbes.com Illinois has joined the quickly growing number of states and cities (including Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Philadelphia, San Francisco,…
The Faculty Lounge
Practice Experience: A New Facet of Faculty Diversity?
With a new faculty hiring season approaching (presumably . . . hopefully), I want to discuss the value of significant practice experience for tenure track ("TT") law professors. My thoughts…
Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
E Is for Effort
By Gerry Riskin
In a May 2014 article for Inc. (Magazine), Jason Fried warns would-be employees that simply submitting a well constructed resume detailing impressive credentials is not the best way to get…
The Right Coast
Report Shows Resurgence of Hiring but Has Downbeat Notes – NYTimes.com
After a sharp slowdown in December and January, and a modest improvement since then, economists had been forecasting a healthy gain for April as consumer and business activity rose in…
Cordell Parvin Blog
Client Development Success: Begin With This Attitude Check
The most important hiring lesson to remember is that you should hire for attitude and train for skills. Skills you can build. Attitude, and character, are harder to change. (Patrick…
The Faculty Lounge
Brooklyn Law Seeks Director Of Legal Writing
This just in: Brooklyn Law School is seeking outstanding applicants for the position of Director of the Legal Writing Program. The duties of the Director will include 1) hiring, training,…
Education Law Prof Blog
Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education, Looks to Fill Sixteen Attorney Vacancies
By Derek Black
I trust none of the law profs are ready to flee the academy for practice, but I am sure you have some great former students who might be interested in…
The Right Coast
Hiring of Law Grads Improves for Some – WSJ.com
Here's some good news for law students set to graduate this year: The job-offer rate for those lucky enough to have landed a summer job at a law firm in…
The Faculty Lounge
Jeff Harrison On The Florida Dean Search & The Value Of Search Consultants
Professor Jeffrey Harrison is in the news again on the subject of the University of Florida law school dean search. Saturday he published an op/ed, UF Administration is Tone Deaf…
Labor Law Prof Blog
NEA Staff Counsel Opening
My former colleague at the NLRB, and current National Education Association staff counsel, Jason Walta, let me know that the NEA is hiring for staff counsel. You can get all…