After pulling and totaling the numbers for employed lawyers per year and
the number of law grads, I produced a spreadsheet with all the relevant lawyer employment data.
Not exact matches
That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise
of Canadian
law firms (not to mention the hordes
of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their
numbers have swollen by 10,000.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if some
number of BTCIK readers once bumped into Scott at a conference or a coffee shop and had the most delightful conversation without realizing they had just met an extraordinary former schoolteacher, Stanford
Law grad, and education - reform superstar.
There's a noticeable surplus
of law school
grads and a lower market - driven
number of articling positions, but there is no lawyer shortage in Ontario, so there is no crisis.
To determine the size
of the jobs gap that currently exists for lawyers, we just need to subtract the net job gain since 2003 from the total
number of law graduates since 2003, giving us a grand total
of 324,661
law school
grads who are not currently employed as lawyers.
If you compare the average
number of jobs per year that the Bureau
of Labor and Statistics thinks a particular state market will add to the average yearly
number of law school
grads in that same state, you can see which states are overproducing.
Law firms and other organizations are seeking out Michigan State grads because of what they have learned on the innovation and technology front — and in a good number of cases seeking out particular law students and offering them jo
Law firms and other organizations are seeking out Michigan State
grads because
of what they have learned on the innovation and technology front — and in a good
number of cases seeking out particular
law students and offering them jo
law students and offering them jobs.
The
number of lawyers needed to do traditional legal work is on the decline,
law grads are not getting the jobs they thought they would.
«the exact province
of call will be even less important for TWU
grads who join the growing
number of in - house counsel — or innovative
law firms like Conduit, Avvoka or Cognition.»
The province
of admission will be even less important for TWU
grads who join the growing
number of Canadian in - house counsel — or for those who join innovative
law firms like Conduit, Avvoka or Cognition.
Which does, in part, harken to Dana's critique
of law schools, but primarily my view is that there are two applicable variables to modify - the
number of law school
grads, and the absorption rate
of new lawyers into the market.
However, given that a
number of LPP
grads are not passing their
Law Society exams, I understand the cost per LPP licensee is something in excess
of $ 30,000 with the cost for the Ottawa program being higher still.