We have smaller summer classes than other big law firms, and we invest heavily in the associates
we hire out of law school.
Are the current metrics used for
hiring out of law schools (ie GPA, academic achievements, law school etc) effective and do they actually correlate with long - term success within the firm?
Not exact matches
My mother - in -
law worked in
school nutrition as a manager, and she knew
of someone who had an opening, so I started
out as a substitute and was
hired at that same
school about two months later.
Cravath was only 26 and 18 months
out of Columbia
Law School when Westinghouse
hired him.
This was not philanthropy; it was a profit - making venture.6 Investors quickly figured
out that there was money to be made in the purchase, leasing, and rental
of space to charter
schools, and an aggressive for - profit charter sector emerged wherever it was permitted by state
law; in states where for - profit charters were not allowed, nonprofit charters
hired for - profit operators to run their
schools.
Making the decision to
hire a virtual worker or pay for legal process outsourcing can be as simple as
hiring an independent contractor fresh
out of law school to do easy tasks, but if you are serious about using virtual workers on a larger scale in your firm and really getting the most
out of it, it is important be aware
of ethics considerations; price benefits and initial investments; and intangible benefits and costs when weighing the options
of paying for a full - time staff,
hiring on - site independent contractors, using outsourced service providers or juggling all
of the work on your own.
Although some corporations
hire right
out of law school, most do not.
In fact, a report by Professor David Wilkins
of Harvard
Law School revealed that diversity ranked fifth out of 10 factors legal departments consider when hiring law firms — just behind (1) Results in similar cases, (2) Reputation, (3) Prior relationship and (4) Firm si
Law School revealed that diversity ranked fifth
out of 10 factors legal departments consider when
hiring law firms — just behind (1) Results in similar cases, (2) Reputation, (3) Prior relationship and (4) Firm si
law firms — just behind (1) Results in similar cases, (2) Reputation, (3) Prior relationship and (4) Firm size.
The cost to
hire an attorney is the same as it would be to
hire someone just
out of law school that is just learning the ropes.
According to the Col.
Law School Mag., Spring 2012 at 2, the Dean of the Law School «reached out to more than 100 graduates who are general counsels or deputy general counsels to encourage them to hire graduates straight out of law school, which is not common.&raq
Law School Mag., Spring 2012 at 2, the Dean of the Law School «reached out to more than 100 graduates who are general counsels or deputy general counsels to encourage them to hire graduates straight out of law school, which is not common.&
School Mag., Spring 2012 at 2, the Dean
of the
Law School «reached out to more than 100 graduates who are general counsels or deputy general counsels to encourage them to hire graduates straight out of law school, which is not common.&raq
Law School «reached out to more than 100 graduates who are general counsels or deputy general counsels to encourage them to hire graduates straight out of law school, which is not common.&
School «reached
out to more than 100 graduates who are general counsels or deputy general counsels to encourage them to
hire graduates straight
out of law school, which is not common.&raq
law school, which is not common.&
school, which is not common.»
(iii) many
law firms have not adequately mentored their associates nor are they willing to
hire experienced lawyers to work at the equivalent
of associate wages — note that experienced lawyers who work for the government for many years often make less than associates directly
out of law school and will not be recruiting since they are deemed not to be «rainmakers»; and / or
Yet another
of the many, many problems caused by far too many graduates being irresponsibly spewed
out of the
law schools is that literally hundreds
of them every year can not find jobs in firms (there is not enough work for the hordes
of graduates to justify
hiring all them).
Fed up with the rising cost
of outsourcing work to inexperienced junior associates at BigLaw firms — whose average hourly rate is approaching $ 300 — a growing number
of companies are opting for the more cost - effective route
of hiring their own lawyers fresh
out of law school and training them in - house.
While many companies require litigators to have years
of experience, you will be able to find some who are interested in
hiring fresh faces (directly
out of law school).
This raises the question
of how can
law firms
hire a whole lawyer right
out of law school?
For the most recent position that we filled at my firm, although we were looking for someone with some
law library experience, we ended up
hiring someone straight
out of library
school because she had the soft skills we were looking for.
Wannabes would be
hired on an articling basis after successfully completing rigid
schooling, just as
law students fresh
out of law school are taken on.