Are law schools relevant to the future of law?
Paul Lippe, a well-known Silicon Valley GC and founder of Legal OnRamp (LOR), recently posted an essay on the Am Law Daily that essentially argues that law schools, at least in their present form, are not relevant to the future of law.
5 Social Networking Sites for Legal Job Seekers
Today’s legal job market is tough. To succeed, you need to use all the tools you can. Some of these tools require new rules, although all build on old-fashioned approaches, like networking and building a reputation. Here are five tools to bring your job search into the world of online social networking: Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Twitter, and JD Supra.
Technology and social media alter recruiting and job seeking
NPR brings us some useful new “rules of the road” for those seeking jobs in today’s economy — I think this goes for lawyers as much as anyone. Just remember, while technology has altered some parts of job seeking and recruitment, the broad essentials (a good resume, networking, research, preparation, interview skills) remain the same.
Is the crisis in attorney hiring due to the failure of legal education?
Image by ZaNiaC via Flickr Jordan Furlong at Slaw.ca suggests that the current trend of big firms paying associates not to work for them is indicative of a larger crisis, created by an educational system that doesn’t provide new lawyers with the skills they need: [T]he profession is going to go through a crisis, one triggered by a growing […]
Social media for law students (and everyone else)
Image via CrunchBase Social media tools allow everyone, not just information technology aficionados, to create and maintain their online professional persona. They have become key tools as online research has become ubiquitous. Using Google to look up potential new hires is something that many in the tech industry have been doing for years (I’ve been […]
10 Reasons for a Law Student to Blog
Image by TW Collins via Flickr 10. Make money fast! Hardly. Blogging may pay the bills for some, but law blogging is hardly going to pay for the coffee you need to get through the semester, much less your books. So stick to free tools like Blogger.com and WordPress.com so you at least don’t lose money. […]
Who Could Be Hired Today?
Who Could Be Hired Today? (Concurring Opinions): The trend in hiring law professors with graduate training in other disciplines as well as law degrees is not new; it’s been underway at least since I was a student (1988−1991). Some of the best classes I took were with individuals who had such backgrounds. But the emphasis has become even […]
Cooperative Workers May Not be Fired in Retaliation
From the New York Times: Employees fired after cooperating in sexual harassment investigations may sue for retaliation, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case concerning the scope of a federal law barring sex discrimination in the workplace. If it seems obvious that a worker who cooperates with an investigation that reveals sexual harassment by her supervisor should […]
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