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Does hiring the smartest people hinder client development in law firms?
Above The Law's Elie Mystal asked in a blog post this morning, 'Does Hiring Smart People Hurt Law Firms?' Mystal picked up on an article in National Jurist by Bill…
The Faculty Lounge
The Job Talk
It's that time of year, when faculty candidates are visiting law schools and giving "job talks." Now comes a paper on the "job talk," co-authored by three law professors at…
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Hiring Conference: The Aftermath
So many of us have now returned home from the AALS Recruitment Conference hopefully unscathed for the most part. I thought I'd share a few of my general observations on…
Employer Law Report
EEOC Public Meeting Addresses Use of Credit History As Screening Tool
By Brian Hall
Last Wednesday, the EEOC held a public meeting at which it took testimony to address the perceived ills associated with the use of applicant credit histories in making hiring or…
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A New Project: Posting Legal Writing And Clinic Positions
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in Arizona State's excellent Aspiring Law Professors conference. Several of us shared our (sometimes conflicting) advice about how to…
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What Divides Us
In my last blog post a few days ago, I suggested that a reasonable hiring committee would prefer candidates who have published, practiced and taught. In this post, Iād like…
Employer Law Report
Unemployed Need Not Apply?
By Brian Hall
On October 8th, the Huffington Post reported on what appears to be an ongoing and unfortunate trend of employers placing job ads specifying that applicants must currently be employed to…
The Faculty Lounge
Why I didn’t get twenty interviews
When I was looking for faculty jobs, I sometimes asked myself: why is it that, even after teaching and publishing, I don't have twenty interviews like some people I know?…
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AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference: Some Thoughts On the Interview
Prompted by a comment to a recent open-ended post, I'll offer some personal thoughts, directed at candidates, on interviews at the upcoming AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference. 1. The hotel layout…
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Nebraska: Hiring Needs
From an email that I received this week from our friends in Lincoln: The University of Nebraska College of Law invites applications for three tenure-track faculty positions. Areas of particular…