legal careers
Public Interest Lawyers - Thank You for Not Being Evil
As part of its continuing campaign to encourage students and graduates to pursue careers in public interest, the law school held a “Thank You For Not Being Evil” ceremony last Wednesday recognizing graduates who chose to take jobs with employers who are not primarily dedicated to destroying weaker businesses, poor people, or the environment.
The Death of the Billable Hour, Wishing Does Not Make it So
Scott Turow notes that “[f]or too many litigators, our life increasingly is a highly paid serfdom—a cage of relentless hours, ruthless opponents, constant deadlines and merciless inefficiencies.” His culprit? The Billable Hour.
When I left the government for private practice in 1986, the hours expectation for young lawyers was 1,750-1,800 hours a year in the large […]
Law Grads Gush Over Prospects as Landmen
Texas Lawyer: Law Grads Gush Over Prospects as Landmen
A number of big energy companies recently began to recruit at Texas law schools to fill landman jobs, which involve title searches and contract negotiations. “It’s becoming a very hot job,” says Rhonda Vickers Beassie, assistant dean of career development at the University of Houston Law Center. […]
Go Away Young Man, Proximity to Local Law School Associated with Lower Incomes for Small Firm Lawyers
The Empirical Legal Studies Blog has a fascinating post on Regional Law Schools and Lawyer Income. Bill Henderson takes a look at average attorney earnings in legal markets in and around Indiana and comes to a somewhat surprising conclusion - “After controlling for all of the above factors, proximity to a local law school is […]
Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel
Recovering law student Jeremy Blachman started writing Anonymous Lawyer Blog while he was a student at Harvard Law School. Amid speculation of who of the BigLaw partners had the time to put their malign misanthropy in digital form, Blachman was revealed as the author of the blog in NY Times article. A book deal was […]
NPR: David Ginsburg, 95, Looks Back on 70 Years as a Lawyer in Washington
Remarkable.
David Ginsburg, 95, retired Friday after seven decades of service in Washington. Ginsburg arrived in the capital in 1935, an idealistic young lawyer passionate about the possibilities of government.
He worked on Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and, later, was executive director of the Kerner Commission on race riots.
NPR: […]
Alternative Legal Careers: Devil’s Advocate
Well, ok, not any more. That position has been ‘downsized’, but it really was a job. According to Wikipedia:
Formerly, during the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith (Latin Promotor Fidei), or Devil’s Advocate (Latin advocatus diaboli), was a canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization […]
Alternative Legal Careers: Agent’s Assistant
Are you a procrastinating 3L with no discernible career prospects? Staring down the barrel of a career in BigLaw? As you’ve no doubt heard ad nauseum, a JD can give you entree into many other exciting careers, even perhaps as amazing as Assistant to Agent - Gaming.
The Beverly Hills office currently has an opening for […]
Helping Universities self-police NCAA regulations emerges as lucrative practice area for law firms
Joe Drape of the NY Times has a fascinating article on an emerging practice area - Facing N.C.A.A., the Best Defense Is a Legal Team. Major NCAA programs have a lot of money riding on avoiding the death penalty that KO’d SMU’s football program, but also the public relations fallout of infractions revealed in the […]
Glenn Grossenbacher, Qui Tam Attorney
Exactly what I would have dreamt of being when I grew up, but it’s certainly a living.