by Bruce | September 26, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
Through a route too circuitous to rehearse, the Girls’ Guide to Law School asked for an interview. Here are their questions, and our responses: 1. I’m an undergrad who’s trying to decide whether to go to law school. I hear a lot about how...
by Bruce | September 25, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Leadership
Just a few weeks hence, starting Thursday 11 October, Georgetown Law, under the umbrella of its Executive Education Programs, will be kicking off this year’s “Law Firm Leadership Program: Developing Effective Skills for Leading and Managing...
by Bruce | August 19, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
If you will or could be in the Bay Area the second week of November, I invite you to sign up for a day-long conference, The Brave New World of Entry-Level Recruiting, which we have put together. It’s actually “back by popular demand,” in that we...
by Bruce | July 18, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting
Comes word (prominently in the WSJ Law Blog) that the New York City Bar Association has formed a task force to “search for a solution” to the simply awful legal job market, in which only 55% of the Class of 2011 had found full-time positions requiring a...
by Bruce | March 9, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting
The National Law Journal just published a wealth of information, derived from NALP statistics, about which law schools send the greatest number of their graduates to NLJ 250 firms as first-year associates, and-this is the really fun part-how many graduates of those...
by Bruce | March 7, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Profiles of Individuals
Dogs bark. Birds sing. Snakes bite. Lawyers sue. Or is there more to it than that? I’m referring to the series of class action lawsuits being brought against law schools claiming they systematically misled students/applicants about such presumably material...