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The UK legal services regulator the Solicitors Regulation Authority has done away with minimum salaries for trainees in England and Wales. Firms will henceforth be...
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Apr 25 2012
The American Bar Association is putting pressure on law schools to report on graduate jobs data one year after graduation, rather than continuing the current practice...
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Apr 09 2012
The US legal services sector lost 1,300 jobs last month, according to the latest figures released by the Labor Department.
The figures neutralise the modest gains...
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Mar 02 2012
The National Law Journal’s ranking of US law schools placing the highest percentage of their 2011 graduates in large law firms shows that graduates of Penn and...
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Feb 06 2012
The legal services sector in the US added about 1000 jobs in January, regaining at least some of the ground lost in January, when the sector lost 1,800 jobs....
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Dec 19 2011
There are 163,109 lawyers registered on the roll in the UK, up from 68,971 in 1991, to a record high.
The number of practicing lawyers might be better estimated...
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Dec 17 2011
US law schools have come under fire for a failure to provide sufficient graduate employment data to prospective students. While students continue to enroll in law...
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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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Nov 21 2011
The momentum behind moves for increased transparency in consumer information regarding law schools is growing, with an ABA committee working on a new accreditation...
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Nov 08 2011
The US legal services sector gained 400 jobs last month, according to the latest statistics released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The growth in the sector...
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Oct 12 2011
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the second consecutive month of negative growth for the legal sector. Things were looking good in July, when 4,100 positions...
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Sep 06 2011
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says the legal industry added just 100 jobs in August 2011. The Bureau’s reporting on the industry shows fluctuations in hiring over...
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Jul 25 2011
The Law Council of Australia is looking to make up for a lack of lawyers in regional areas by recruiting unemployed Irish graduates. The Council is working together...
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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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Jun 30 2011
A recent study that compared the number of people passing the state bar exams with an estimate of job openings in the same year shows that New York has the largest...
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Jun 01 2011
The National Association for Legal Career Professionals (‘NALP’) has reported that only 68.4 per cent of 2010 law school graduates were able to land a job requiring...
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May 26 2011
The Peking University School of Transnational Law is running into difficulty as it seeks to gain accreditation by the American Bar Association. Accreditation by the...
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May 10 2011
Finally some good news on US legal industry job statistics: the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the industry added 1,500 jobs in April after two...
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Mar 18 2011
Law school application numbers are finally beginning to reflect the poor job prospects for graduates, dropping 11.5 per cent to 66,876 over the past year. The Law...
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Mar 10 2011
As the economic crisis wiped thousands of legal jobs from the board, law schools have attracted criticism for saddling students with debt when there is little prospect...
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Mar 09 2011
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that US unemployment fell to 8.9 percent in February, but the legal industry lost 2,900 jobs in the same month.
In...
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Jan 13 2011
The New York Times has published an article that describes the financial hell faced by US students who have taken on huge student loans to pay for legal education,...
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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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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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Nov 01 2010
During the recession law school increased in popularity, with the number of LSAT takers climbing 20.5 per cent between 2007 and 2009, and law schools seeing more...
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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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Jul 13 2010
The Guardian reports on the ‘emerging scandal’ in legal education, which is churning out thousands of aspiring lawyers in the face of declining job prospects. The...
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Jul 07 2010
June was a bad month for employment in the US legal sector, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting a drop 3,900 jobs.
Meanwhile, the modest gains reported...
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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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