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Legal Jobs Go - Mayer Brown Latest To Issue The Pink Slips

Posted on November 20, 2008
And so the legal layoffs continue - the latest being this memo from Mayer Brown: Despite the current conditions in the worldwide financial markets, Mayer Brown is having a strong year, with an increase in gross revenues. Most of our practice areas are performing well...

007?s Rules For Legal Jobs In 008 - For Shaken and Stirred Attorneys Everywhere

Posted on November 16, 2008
A little piece we did for LawFuel today: James Bond?s Quantum of Solace has hit the screen with the usual Bond hoopla, but maybe in all the action there is some tips for those law job seekers who are shaken, but not stirred by the current legal market...

Legal Jobs Threatened By Increased Pessimism, Survey Finds

Posted on October 27, 2008
The legal market continues to deteriorate internationally, with optimism among UK leading law firms dropping 40% in the past year alone, according to a report carried in LegalWeek. The report from accountancy firm Smith and Williamson was carried out among 102 firms and showed that some firms were looking at “defensive mergers” in the months ahead...

Aaahh. The Meltdown Hit Legal Jobs In London - Big Time

Posted on October 14, 2008
There was a time, many years ago, when any job in the bureaucracy was relatively safe from “interference” by pesky government superiors. No more. The Times reports that the UK Department of Justice is about to axe over 3000 jobs, a move that will see up to 100 courts close...

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Legal Jobs Under Threat With Wall Street Woes, Survey Shows

Posted on September 20, 2008
An increasing number of lawyers are worried that problems on Wall Street will hurt their careers, particularly if a new Above the Law survey is true. Forty-two percent of practicing lawyers responding to a survey through the blog said the recent bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch would harm their careers...

Looking For A Law Job? Heller?s Have A Blog You May Want To Read

Posted on September 18, 2008
When law jobs get tough, the tough get . . well, blogging. Lots of trouble over at Heller Ehrman and now there’s “Heller Highwater”, a blog that just went up giving survival tips for their lawyers. Since the failure of the merger with Mayer Brown things have not been great for the boys and girls over [...

Okay, So How About Lawyer32.0 For A Title?

Posted on September 15, 2008
There are a lot of fancy job titles around - as we all know only too well - but when it comes to lawyers, what about descriptions like “technical director of legal and corporate affairs” and “senior product manager for intellectual property and licensing”? The descriptions were seeni in a recent product announcement from the monolith...

NZ Legal Jobs Looking A Little Shaky - But You Can Pick Up Your Law Marketability

Posted on September 11, 2008
We’ve been writing a new report on the New Zealand law jobs scene - tentatively entitled ‘Talent Wars and Rocky Roads’. The thing that’s come through, in part at least, is the fact that the legal scene in our home territory in New Zealand is that talent is not only still the key ingredient necessary [...

Worried About Your Legal Job? Here?s What the CEOs Have To Say

Posted on July 17, 2008
The credit crunch and other issues have occupied the minds of lawyers in recent months, but what does it mean for law firms in terms of the outlook? LegalWeek published an outlook from top firms managing partners. A sampling: Tim Jones, Freshfields - ?Litigation is a big practice area right now...

A Quality Law Degree In Two Years? Come On.

Posted on June 22, 2008
The ABA lifted a requirement that law degrees be over six semesters right back in 2004 - a major deal that lead to the odd legal institution instituting their two-year law degrees. But now, a more esteemed name in legal education, NorthWestern University has entered the fray with it’s two-year degree...

Climate Change Law Jobs Heat Up

Posted on June 07, 2008
Credit crunching and other issues may have slowed down the growth of firms in the financial sector, but the ever-increasing range of new opportunities includes climate change law. Carbon trading, new climate regulations, environmental iniatives of all types have created a plethora of new opportunities, which younger lawyers are primed to seize...

When Law Jobs Go Bad - Sentencing Melvyn Weiss

Posted on May 27, 2008
It’s kind of unusual for a defendant to file his own sentencing memo to a court, but when the defendant is class action guru-turned-defendant Mel Weiss well, anything can happen. The WSJ Law Blog published the memo, which carried more than 275 letters attesting to the good-turned-bad lawyer’s good deeds...

Law Jobs Go At DC Attorney General?s Office

Posted on May 24, 2008
Many may think that public law is for whimps and not for the real stuff, well in the case of the Washington DC Attorney General’s office the plan is to transform the office into a “first rate law firm” - starting with what all first rate law firms do and firing lawyers...

Pregnancy, Adoption And Law Jobs That Recognize Them

Posted on May 20, 2008
Sullivan & Cromwell started the ball rolling - their generous (18 paid weeks’ maternity leave) started in July and now other firms are joining the queue to be nice to mothers. That generosity hasn’t always been the case, of course, but the work/life thing is catching and as American Lawyer point out, similar policies extend to adoptive [...

Law Job Layoffs, Pregnancy And Unwanted Emails - A Paul Hastings PR Nightmare

Posted on May 09, 2008
The brouhaha over Paul Hastings associate Shinyung Ho has been all over the law blogs this week and points up some of the key issues for not only pregnant “life stylers” seeking a life along with a law careers, but also the way large firms handle layoffs...

Oprah?s Lawyer - Now What Sort of Law Job Would That Be?

Posted on May 01, 2008
Celebrities with one name are pretty big - that’s why they have one name - but what about the lawyers who act for them or, in Oprah’s case, the Chicago attorney she found because she liked his tie. William L Becker got the call in 1988 because Oprah had been searching for a lawyer...

Law Partnerships - And A New Law Career Path For Some Firms

Posted on May 01, 2008
The Lawyer have a story on the new partners entering the fray - ah, we mean partnerships - in the UK. Hammonds take the cake for the most new partners, as you can see from The Lawyer’s pic, below. The firm now has nine per cent of its total partner as ‘new chums’, compared to most [...

Looking For Work-Life Balance? Then A Law Job May Be TOOO Much

Posted on April 27, 2008
The good old State Bar of New York has come out with a work/life balance report that shows that the holy grail of work/life balance is as elusive as ever, with lawyers missing out on the chance to play a part not only in the community, but also in their own families...

Best Paid Jobs - The Top 10 Pay Rates - And No Lawyers

Posted on April 25, 2008
We posted an item from the The Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey from June 2007 showing the top paying jobs (by hour) in the US. So which position do the lawyers occupy? Top 3? Nope. How about some mid-level position? Nope. Law teachers do come in at an equal number six with general [...

Top Lady At Facebook - Just Where A Law Degree (And Big Brains) Can Take You

Posted on April 17, 2008
The places where lawyers - or those with law degrees anyway - can take you can be as interesting as looking at where lawyers go in the law itself. For Sheryl Sandberg, her ‘non legal’ path has taken her through the hallowed halls of the World Bank, the Treasury, on to (more colorful now) Google [...

Law Jobs And The ?R? Word - More Layoffs Around

Posted on April 15, 2008
Thelen Reid is the latest firm to announce layoffs, confirmed by AbovetheLaw reporting a layoff of 26 associates and 85 staff firm-wide. That’s a layoff rate of around four per cent of Thelen’s total headcount of 600 lawyers. Thelen co-chair Stephen O’Neal told ATL that the layoffs were spread out among groups, but with “some areas more [...

Sexy Law - Let?s Go Dating Miss Climate Change

Posted on April 09, 2008
Want to step into a law job that places you in the very epicenter of ‘cool’? I wrote in ‘Briefcase’, the NZ Law blog about the fact that different areas of law have different levels of ‘coolness’ to them, undoubtedly now lead by Climate Change, as the hot area, pun excused...

Legal Jobs Outlook in April - Buoyant?s the Word, Says One

Posted on April 06, 2008
Despite all the pessimism about the downturn in the legal jobs market, LegalRecruitment’s Jonathan Fagan reports from the UK that the legal job market is quite buoyant still, and despite a slow down around the early Easter, he’s found plenty of quality candidates with a good outlook on the permanent front and less good for [...

Cool Law Job Wanted? The Coolest Law Firm Vote-Off

Posted on April 06, 2008
The ‘coolest’ law firm? Well, there are plenty of places for law jobs and plenty of surveys of law firms, but it’s AboveTheLaw that is taking votes on the coolest law firms - down to the final four bracket, as below. Voting shows the firms headed for the final four are Cleary Gottlieb, Davis Polk, Latham & [...

Big Jobs Growth In Big China Market

Posted on April 03, 2008
Noone needs telling about China’s growth and apart from the “troubles” in Tibet, the Olympic Games are casting the giant in an increasingly favourable, if fuggy and polluted, light. Law firms are recruiting big time, as a PriceWaterhouseCoopers survey has indicated with the large firms predicting a 10% growth this year alone...

The Law Firm Of The Future - What Will Your Law Job Look Like?

Posted on April 02, 2008
UK lawyers Eversheds has released a report it commissioned from RSG Consulting on the future of law, “Law Firm of the 21st Century” which has stirred considerable interest among the legal community and blogs like JD Bliss. RSG surveyed 50 top partners of the leading law firms in the United Kingdom and 50 general counsels, legal directors, and [...

Bed Bugs With That Law Job?

Posted on March 31, 2008
Poor old Cravaths, one of Wall Street’s most eminent firms, has been struck down with some bedbug infestation. The blogs and wires are alive, along with the offices and beds evidently, a bedbug invasion. For instance: AboveTheLaw: 1 . An email was sent around Cravath last week about the presence of bed bugs at the firm...

Query: Was This Barack Obama?s Legal Job Or Not?

Posted on March 30, 2008
Was Barack Obama exaggerating to describe himself as a “law professor” at the University of Chicago, asks AbovetheLaw? The University itself answered the query clearly, we think. “The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer...

Top Law Job? Then Check Allen & Overy?s Top Chargeout Rate

Posted on March 28, 2008
Charge-out rates have always been a subject of intense interest, particularly among the Big Law boys and girls, so it was interesting to see Above The Law take a look at global firm Allen & Overy’s chargeout schedule in Europe, which differentiates between Paris and London, the average rate being around US$1100 at current USD [...

Thinking About Changing Legal Jobs - Inhouse, Perhaps? Think Carefully.

Posted on March 26, 2008
Working inhouse has been a growing attraction for many lawyers seeking to change legal jobs and who want to remove themselves from the grind of the six-minute unit and the pressure of private practice. Query, though. Is it actually any better? Are the lifestyle benefits any greater? Has the pace and nature of inhouse legal [...

8 FAQ About Legal Recruiters - Scoring Right Law Job, The Right Way

Posted on March 24, 2008
An interesting article from CounselToCounsel blogger and recruiter Stephen Seckler, whose MD of BCG Attorney Search’s Boston office and previously built up his own law consulting firm, Secker Legal Consulting. His article, provides some FAQs on legal recruiting, outlining 8 tips about legal recruiters...

Legal Jobs Slowdown In NZ Law Market - Seeking Law Jobs Just Got Harder

Posted on March 24, 2008
We carried a story on our New Zealand legal jobs board about the slowdown that is already beginning to bit in New Zealand. The situation with Australian and New Zealand lawyers is that it is a pull of well-qualified lawyers that is fished in by major international law firms and recruiters...

Corporate Lawyers And Legal Fees - Can NZ Lawyers Lead The Way?

Posted on March 20, 2008
We reported at LawFuel recently on the just-released Australia and New Zealand reoprt, The ACLA/CLANZ Legal Department Benchmarking Report 2008 which looked at a stack of metrics relating to inhouse counsel. A number of interesting trends and information emerged, but let’s focus on one small, four-letter word: fees...

Legal Job For Salesmen - Or Is That A Sales Job For Lawyers?

Posted on March 15, 2008
Selling and lawyering can be a case of ‘never the twain shall meet’, but for a San Diego firm, Scholefield Associates, they’re out there actively seeking an associate who has experience in sales. At the end of the day, everyone’s a salesperson to a greater or lesser extent, no matter how high (or low) their [...

Best Legal Jobs? Take A Look At The Sunday Times Table

Posted on March 14, 2008
The Sunday Times ‘Best Places to Work’ tables are out and we’re looking for the law firms there. We can’t do better than quote Alex Novarese, LegalWeek’s editor in his blog: It?s easy to be cynical about law firms in ‘good employer’ league tables...

Women Lawyers - What?s Happening Here?

Posted on March 11, 2008
We published a piece in LawFuel’s New Zealand edition which outlined a scenario that doubtless occurs elsewhere - that is, women are graduating in law in ever greater numbers but failing to achieve the top of their profession in terms of partnerships, in any event...

Downsizing Dechert - The Property Crunch Affects Property Lawyers

Posted on March 07, 2008
The Dechert downsizing in the real estate group is a sign of things to come, to be sure, but just how many of the 13 associates who received the email telling them the finance and real estate group would not be needing them have been ‘reallocated’ among other, more prosperous and busy divisions of the firm? The [...

Billion Dollar Lawyers - Want A Legal Job Like This?

Posted on March 06, 2008
I received some advance warning about a report prepared by a number of ‘authority figures’ in the legal analytis business who are shortly to publish a ‘Benchmarking’ report on the practices - and revenues - flowing through Australian and New Zealand corporate law departments...

Dubai?s Legal Jobs Nirvana - Is It Really The New York Of The East?

Posted on March 03, 2008
The New York Times ran a piece yesterday on Dubai’s legal jobs heaven - the major law firms like Latham & Watkins pushing into Dubai, described by LW attorney William H. Voge as the “Silicon Valley of the world”. Big claim. But there again, there’s big money in them there sandhills...

Lawyers On Holiday - How Many Law Firms Let Us Trade ?Em?

Posted on March 01, 2008
Legal work takes its toll in many ways, not the least being the demands of work - be they a deal or a trial. What if you could convert outstanding holidays into pay, rather than lose them altogether? Sounds logical, and it’s what Allen & Overy happen to do...

A&O Opens Law Links With India - Legal Jobs Expand

Posted on February 23, 2008
UK lawyers Allen & Overy are excited about their new deal in the old colony - India, which you’d have to have been dead for a decade to think was anything but booming in the new business and legal market. The deal is a ‘referral relationship’ with Trilegal, providing for training and a consultancy agreement between [...

?This Lawyer Needs A Kick In The Nuts?

Posted on February 20, 2008
So this is what we liked in the ABA Journal’s article about Susman Godfrey lawyer Stephen Susman and their ‘day in the life’ yarn about a $1000-an-hour attorney who kicks butt and knows it. The article’s fine, if you like braggards who name and money drop like theres no tomorrow, but the comments were more [...

Skadden?s Hottest Associates Contest Strikes It Cold

Posted on February 13, 2008
When a blogger takes on Big Law he has to be sure of his or her actions, right? Well, sometimes, sometimes not. But when the blogger is a member of the firm, like Skadden Insider, then yes, they do. At least that’s what happened when Skadden counsel Henry Baer issued a memo castigating Skadden Insider [...

Does The Law Job Require An Annual Billing Quota? It?s Changing.

Posted on February 11, 2008
The ABA Journal ran a piece recently about the different approaches taken by three different firms to billing. Ford & Harrison relieves first year associates of the need to meet billing quotas. Their approach represents both an educational approach to the associates and a benefit to clients, whose eyes light up at the prospect of cheaper [...

The Top Gun With The Top Legal Job - The LA US Attorney

Posted on February 10, 2008
We’re always interested in reading about lawyers with interesting spins on their legal careers, and the newly appointed top US Attorney in LA, Tom O’Brien, is a case in point. But first a word on the office itself. The US Attorney, in LA at least, has been less prominent than other legal positions like the [...

Law Job In London? Just Watch The US Firms Carefully

Posted on February 05, 2008
As the legal business has boomed in the City, the growth of US law firms seeking to expand their ‘franchises’ into London has grown, with a raft of major US practices (and some small ones) seeking to place their stake firmly into the Thames riverbank some place...

The Legal Jobs Get More User-Friendly - But Is It A Movement?

Posted on January 31, 2008
Hanging on to your lawyer is not something all clients want, but attorney retention is a big issue for law firms. The New York Times took a look at the issue recently, noting that firms are changing their attitudes towards their staff, adopting flexible work times, schedules and the partnership track...

Near-Naked Lawyers, Facebook And Job Satisfaction

Posted on January 25, 2008
Yep, it’s a very Gen-Y combination but it also comes from Britain where the legal job boundaries are being pushed in all directions. First up, Facebook (we’re leaving naked lawyers until the end so scan ahead - but you’ll miss some good stuff)...

Robert Ambroli?s Top Five - (Not Including LawFuel.com)

Posted on January 24, 2008
“Fire up the Klieg lights and tidy up your tux. It is time to honor the five most notable legal sites of 2007.” Its Robert Ambrogi’s list this year (which doesn’t include our own LawFuel.com - how come?) includes Avvo.com the ratings site that started life with $14 million in venture capital and a lawsuit (since [...

Top Law Jobs At Top Places To Work

Posted on January 23, 2008
Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Places To Work include five US law firms - Arnold and Porter (Staffers get 12 weeks paid maternity leave and profit sharing of 7.5% of salary. The less you make, the less you pay for health-insurance premiums.) Alston & Bird (Both the legal and nonlegal staff get super benefits, including 90 days of paid [...

The One Company You Don?t Want To Work For - According To Google?s Eric Schmidt

Posted on January 21, 2008
So you want to work for Google? Okay, you don?t want to work for Google necessarily, but you would like to know what their top man, Eric Schmidt?s advice might be if you?re looking for anything from a legal job to a loafing job at a go-nowhere corporation? Well Sheryl Sandberg joined Google in 2001 [...

Retiring Rich - The Lawyers From Clifford Chance

Posted on January 16, 2008
Retirement looms for increasing numbers of baby boomers and the legal media in the UK have covered moves by Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance to move its retirement practice in line with the new British age discrimination law - something larger firms are perhaps more aware of than ever with age, sex, race and religious [...

Times Are Getting Tougher On The Law Jobs Front

Posted on January 13, 2008
We’ve predicted tougher times ahead on the legal jobs front for a little while - hardly an act of mind-blowing prescience given the credit crunch - but it’s beginning to get ugly with layoffs and belt tightening all round with some of the major law firms...

Gay-Friendly Law Firm Wins Top Place Among UK?s Top 100

Posted on January 09, 2008
Gay pride is not something we hear a huge amount about these days with lawyers, notwithstanding the occasional lawsuits (like Cravath’s faced last year). However Pinsent Masons, the UK lawyers, are positively bursting with gay pride at being named by gay rights group Stonewall as the most ‘gay friendly’ lawyers in the UK, as announced [...

Law Jobs For Charity - Giving Lawyers At Christmas

Posted on January 07, 2008
Lawyers may not enjoy the best of reputations among the non-legal public, but to give them their due they probably do more than many professions in terms of not only pro bono work, but also outright charity. Tales abound of law firms that make charitable donations or organize charity at Christmas time in particular...