While law schools and Biglaw continue business pretty much as usual, the good people at Law School Transparency continue to track how
the lost generation of lawyers with no real job prospects grows every year.
Large law firms are also beginning to
lose a generation of lawyers who actually practiced in a day when more cases went to jury trial.
Not exact matches
No, but it's reality, and if you don't confront reality now, you may become another member
of the «
lost generation»
of lawyers.
But I hope that «
lost generation» will result in some creative new approaches to law practice, both from new
lawyers and current
lawyers taking advantage
of the availability
of affordable associates.
My main concern is that we may end up with a «
lost generation»
of lawyers — those who graduate between about 2008 and 2012.
When the transition from print to digital started to take off in the 1990s, Neverland began to
lose its allure as a destination for successive
generations of lawyers.
This is probably the nadir
of lawyer employment, and there is much talk
of a «
lost generation»
of lawyers who enrolled in law school just as Stage 1 was drawing to a close.