While the
traditional legal education model has bred students to «Think like a lawyer,» the resulting outcome has left many graduating law students struggling to find
employment that justifies the huge debt load many students take on and has created a huge access to justice gap that persist in low - income and rural communities.
At the time she started, the unit dealt primarily with
traditional employment law such as discrimination, wrongful discharge and labor relations claims, but Dietrich worked to gradually create and implement a new vision of
legal services
employment practice.
Alan Krueger, a former economist with the Obama administration, recently released a paper, where he argues for the creation of a new
legal category in
employment law called independent workers, who are less independent than contractors, but more independent than
traditional employees,
PRINCIPLE (1): BASIS OF A CONTRACT The element of personal service has figured significantly in many of the recent cases on
employment status, but the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) under Elias P in Ellis v M&P Steelcraft Ltd and another [2008] IRLR 355, [2008] All ER (D) 353 (Feb) adds a new twist to it, shading into what in traditional contract law would be known as «intention to create legal relations», ie was there any contemplation of any form of employment being the basis of the relationsh
employment status, but the decision of the
Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) under Elias P in Ellis v M&P Steelcraft Ltd and another [2008] IRLR 355, [2008] All ER (D) 353 (Feb) adds a new twist to it, shading into what in traditional contract law would be known as «intention to create legal relations», ie was there any contemplation of any form of employment being the basis of the relationsh
Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) under Elias P in Ellis v M&P Steelcraft Ltd and another [2008] IRLR 355, [2008] All ER (D) 353 (Feb) adds a new twist to it, shading into what in
traditional contract law would be known as «intention to create
legal relations», ie was there any contemplation of any form of
employment being the basis of the relationsh
employment being the basis of the relationship at all?
Very common (and successful)
employment routes for lawyers looking to work outside of the
traditional law firm atmosphere or
legal field include: public policy development, risk management, AML, compliance, corporate governance, and communications.