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Apr 11 2012
There has been a 15.6 per cent drop in the number of students applying for admission to US law schools this year, with the total pool of applicants numbering about...
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Dec 04 2011
The US legal sector grew by 100 jobs in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' preliminary employment report. These modest gains follow the addition of...
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Sep 27 2011
The British Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke expressed his enthusiam last week for the nation’s legal industry, pointing out that the legal sector is one of the most...
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Jul 11 2011
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has released new figures showing that the legal industry shed 2,600 jobs this month. This result represents the fourth month this...
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Apr 12 2011
You will be happy and proud to know that my office, Chancery Research and Consultants (CRC-Trust), a socio-legal research organization has developed the first ever...
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Jan 31 2011
Respected jurist Chief Justice Jim Spigelman, of the New South Wales Supreme Court in Australia, has warned Australian commercial lawyers that outsourcing legal...
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Jan 12 2011
The US legal industry shed 1,000 jobs in December in the third straight month of job losses, accoding to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Despite the losses, the sector...
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Jan 07 2011
UK managing partners expect further consolidation in the legal market in the coming year, according to a survey conducted for professional network firm Winmark.
The...
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Jan 03 2011
US law firms seemed to be moving in the right direction on diversity issues, hiring more women, people of color and people with disabilities, until the recession...
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Jan 02 2011
Two recent mergers have highlighted changing currents in the legal services industry. Thomson Reuters' purchase of legal-process outsourcing firm Pangea3 and Axiom...
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Dec 29 2010
Business coach Steven Pearce offers advice for lawyers who were made redundant, with a five point plan for getting back on track.
In this article he suggests...
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Dec 24 2010
Law firm managers may be feeling a sense of relief as the legal services market shows signs of recovery. But the changes wrought upon the industry are significant and...
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Dec 16 2010
Legal outsourcing will increasingly be handled by companies within the US and UK, according to predictions from Fronterion, an international consulting firm for...
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Dec 09 2010
Large law firms in Australia have responded to increased foreign competition and deep cuts to profitability by cutting partner numbers and eliminating jobs, according...
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Dec 06 2010
The Big Law business model has fundamentally changed, according to the managing partners of some of Washington’s DC's top law firms.
In a breakfast discussion...
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Dec 02 2010
A series of high profile transatlantic mergers between law firms that are ‘in less-than-brilliant shape’ has prompted commentators to question the future of the BigLaw...
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Nov 26 2010
This article from The Guardian observes that the legal industry’s love of corporate jargon
Last week, for example, DLA Piper heralded a fresh round of redundancies...
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Nov 26 2010
Virtual law offices are increasingly appealing to lawyers as technological advances re-shape the way that legal services are provided.
The virtual office allows...
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Nov 17 2010
While the job market in the legal sector remains dire, students are applying to law school in record numbers and are willing to borrow to finance soaring tuition fees....
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Sep 23 2010
A protest outside London’s High Court yesterday saw lawyers handing out cans of baked beans branded with the slogan “Legal services by supermarkets is as ridiculous as...
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Sep 08 2010
A new report from Citi Private Bank predicts that law firms will cut more equity partners in the near future.
The survey of 187 law firms shows that revenues have...
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Sep 06 2010
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics' has reported that the US economy lost 54,000 jobs in August. But things were looking ever-so-slightly better in the legal industry,...
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Aug 31 2010
Many have said that access to justice in the UK is under threat with new cuts to legal aid funding, The arrival of ‘Tesco Law’ and difficulties securing indemnity...
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Jun 07 2010
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the legal sector gained 300 jobs in May. The news is heartening, after the sector lost hundreds of jobs in April....
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Apr 12 2010
The European Union and South Korea have signed a trade deal under which Korea has agreed to open key commercial sectors to European business. The legal services sector...
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Apr 01 2010
There are no shortage of articles pointing out the need for change in the legal industry under new economic conditions. This New York Times article is interesting...
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Jan 09 2010
According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US legal services sector lost 2,100 jobs in December 2009.
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Dec 08 2009
Since November 2008, the legal sector in the US has lost a total of 41,800 jobs.
In November, 2,900 jobs were cut, half the number of 5,800 jobs shed in October,...
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