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2008 And Legal Jobs Ahead - How Tight Will It Be?

By lawjobspipeline

International upheaval following the Bhutto assasination, Mid-East issues, rising oil prices, the sub-prime crisis - what does all this mean for legal jobs in the year ahead?  We preduct (and the end-of-year prediction is as, well, predictable as the new year hangover) that times will get tougher for a lot of firms and the good times they’ve had will become a little less prosperous.  None of which is to say that deal flow, earnings and prospects won’t remain good for 2008, and down here in New Zealand we’re the sun continues to shine and the water’s warm it’s tough to see any real hard time looking ahead.

However, in places like this, where lawyers head overseas as a right-of-passage, the legal jobs situation wil remain tight - as they wil in Australia.  But in the major legal centers like New York and London, the market might just be tightening already.  Let’s watch and see.

Full post as published by lawjobspipeline.com Blog on December 29, 2007 (boomark / email).