Sentences with phrase «unemployed lawyers»

Add to the fact that other young attorneys have been laid off, and other recent grads are still looking for work, and you have a overload of unemployed lawyers.

How should these newly unemployed lawyers plan for their future?

It may surprise you that the worst offenders are not unemployed lawyers with below market pedigree.

After all, look at all the newly unemployed lawyers from top firms.

To me, it seems that we will just have more prepared unemployed lawyers.

A few thousand more will be barely noticed among the swelling ranks of unemployed lawyers.

And there are many smart but unemployed lawyers with little to lose by trying some new things.

[3] Like many unemployed lawyers in the Toronto market who are between jobs or pursuing other careers, Shireen Sondhi earned extra money as a document reviewer.

The American Lawyer interviews Laurel Edgeworth, a lawyer and creator of a new Web site that's bound to be a hit with recently unemployed lawyers as well as new grads who can't find jobs: Law Clerk Connection.

Enter Law Clerk Connection, where unemployed lawyers and law students pay a small membership fee to upload a profile to the site and view jobs posted by potential employers.

Here's another opportunity for unemployed lawyers who can't find a job at Legal Aid, even for free, and who can't afford to party seven nights a week.

While volunteer efforts won't cure this problem long term, training and utilizing currently unemployed lawyers on a volunteer basis to handle misdemeanor cases or ease the burden on lawyers forced to represent defendants at cut rates, might provide a stopgap measure to the crisis in criminal representation.

Campos seemed genuinely, personally troubled by the army of unemployed lawyers out there drowning in debt.

He also said recent graduates have an advantage over unemployed lawyers coming from big law firms in Manhattan.

With a story like that, you'd think that Gura would be celebrated as the toast of the town — respected by constitutional scholars and Supreme Court advocates for an extraordinary result or held out as an inspiration to young, unemployed lawyers languishing in document review jobs that taking big risks by starting a practice and handling compelling cases can yield big rewards.

As law firms shed attorneys at an unprecedented rate — 4376 layoffs since January 1, 2008, 2614 in calendar year 2009, and 700 on a single Black Thursday, one would think that the bar association websites would be on high alert, offering discounted CLEs and networking events and otherwise mobilizing to help unemployed lawyers find work.

Now, with a glut of unemployed lawyers, law firms might be able to be more choosy about how to handle this issue.

While some newly unemployed lawyers are frantically scrambling to find any job, even if it means working for free, others are using their newfound free time and generous severance pay to party the night away, according to Charlotte, N.C. - based radio station, WFAE 90.7 FM.

No doubt, every unemployed lawyer for miles around was clicking through to learn more.

As the world's pre-eminent association focused on the rule of law, the American Bar Association has a vital role to lead responses to the challenges facing today's attorneys, including such issues as legal education, increased competition, and underemployed and unemployed lawyers.

But before all the unemployed lawyers in the country pack up and move to North Dakota, maybe we should think about this.

«And another seven or eight private law schools and a whole bunch of unemployed lawyers and underemployed lawyers.

As for Genova, she reminds newly - unemployed lawyers and investors that they might find solace and inspiration in literature because the authors really «understood suffering.»

I'm gratified to know that the Washington Supreme Court is concerned with the twin problems of unemployed lawyers and the middle class's inability to afford access to legal services.

Encouraging more paraprofessionals isn't going to create jobs for unemployed lawyers; if anything, it just creates more competition.

* Message boards are also valuable resources — like this one, «where all the unemployed lawyers go to cry.»

Marchant boarded her flight to Rotterdam, placed fifth in a world - class field with her personal best time of 2:31:51, and returned to Chattanooga as an unemployed lawyer.