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Magic 8-Ball Says: Are you freaking insane!?

By ti

One of the “benefits” of being a member of the ABA (I’m pretty sure my membership has expired, but whatever) is their weekly email of legal news headlines. Today’s email brought great news about the legal job market. For example, Jenner & Block asked 10 partners to leave, a PR firm is advising law firms on how to write layoff memos, another firm is rumored to have laid off 80 associates in the last nine months, some talking head says the legal economy is going to be twice as bad as the most extreme predictions, and law students are being advised to have backup plans (and backup backup plans) b/c they are heading into “a grim hiring market.” Yeah. So this is the context in which I just quit my job and am now looking for a law job in a state where I do not yet have a license to practice...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Imbroglio on October 24, 2008 (boomark / email).