Bad news in the legal job market…
Anyone who hasn’t been living underneath a rock for the last few months is aware that the legal market is down for new hires and that law firms are cutting lawyers. Proof? The lateral market is “officially flooded,” and legal recruiters and law students are being hit hard. Where’s the good news? Some IP firms are […]
Get satisfied… Or get out.
Monica Parker (author of The Unhappy Lawyer) and I recently hosted a teleclass entitled, Should I Stay [in the Law] or Should I Go? Nearly 100 people registered for the free preview call, and we ended with a lively discussion. We named the call Should I Stay or Should I Go? because that’s the question that we both hear […]
Survey says: increase intimacy, not fees.
It isn’t news to anyone that we’re in a tough and uncertain economy. Nor is it news that business is slow. The real question is, what can lawyers do today to weather this economy? Summarized in yesterday’s AmLaw Daily, the answer is to develop client relationships. The Advisory concluded that the substantial growth in law […]
Back to blogging; finding opportunity in chaos
It’s been quiet here at the Life at the Bar blog recently. I’ve been updating the blog platform, which pretty much brought the blogging itself to a standstill. The new blog is up and running now (though it will be difficult to see any noticeable changes, I promise, they’re running in the background) and so […]
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Unhappy lawyer no more: Monica Parker visits Life at the Bar
Although many lawyers who read this blog enjoy practicing law, comments and emails I’ve received prove that not all readers fall into that category. Studies show that anywhere between 20 and 70 percent of lawyers would like to leave the practice. If you fall into that group, where do you turn? Meet Monica Parker. Monica is a […]
Michelle Obama, a dissatisfied associate?
There’s an interesting story in yesterday’s Chicago Sun-Times, excerpting a new book that describes Michelle Obama’s dissatisfaction with the work she was doing as a second-year associate at Sidley Austin. A sample: Too monotonous for Michelle, who, White [the partner in charge of the firm’s advertising group, of which Obama was a member] says, complained that […]