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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 [...

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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 [...

?This Lawyer Needs A Kick In The Nuts?

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...

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