The number of job losses in the legal services industry continued to decline in February, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. The legal services sector shed 100 jobs last month, a decrease from the 1,100 jobs that were lost in January. During the past 12 months 37,100 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tonight may well be the most important speech of President Obama’s political life. His signature issue, health care reform, is on the ropes. His unfavorable ratings are rising and the Democrats have suffered some embarrassing losses in special elections, capped with the loss of the Senate seat held for a generation by Edward [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
A total of eleven District Attorneys were laid off last year in San Joaquin, California, with seven of those happening last month. The department, like most California state and local government offices, is facing steep budget cuts. The DA’s that were cut mainly handled misdemeanor prosecutions, including DUI’s and some domestic abuse cases. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Deferrals, layoffs, low offer rates for summer associates… what’s next? Apparently things have gotten so bad that even the federal government doesn’t want any more lawyers. The FTC announced today that it was closing its application process for current positions early – they already have more applicants than they can handle.
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the US legal services industry lost another 2,700 jobs in July, a 0.23% drop. The industry employs 1.13 million lawyers and staff. In July the US economy overall gained a few jobs — the nation’s unemployment rate fell from 9.5% in June to 9.4% in July. Some of the biggest [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 9, 2009
According to a report issued Friday by the US Department of Labor, the legal services sector shrank by 4,200 in February 2009. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the 0.36% drop from January reflects a continued series of layoffs by US firms. Here’s a complete rundown of last week’s major law firm layoffs. Since February 2008, 21,000 jobs [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 5, 2009
Above the Law is mocking an Illinois legal aid society for offering unemployed lawyers the chance to volunteer for pro bono work. CARPLS offers legal aid to low-income residents of Cook County. A local legal aid provider is seeking unemployed lawyers as volunteers to staff its telephone hotline for low-income families in need of legal advice…The [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 12, 2009
According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry in the United States shed some 7,000 jobs between December 2007 and December 2008. The numbers include lawyers, paralegals, public relations specialists, secretaries and other positions; and reflect layoffs by firms nationwide over the last few months, and the dissolutions of Am Law 100 firms [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 18, 2008
The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, according to a government report. The Labor Department reported that initial filings for state jobless benefits fell to 554,000 for the week ending December 13th. That was a decline of 21,000 from the 26-year high of 575,000 claims a week earlier. Economists [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 12, 2008
After the dissolution of Heller Ehrman and Thelen LLP, hundreds of attorneys were left without work. Now, months later, many are still unemployed, even after some of the nation’s largest firms hired entire departments. Most of the unemployed from both firms are in New York, Washington, and San Francisco. Heller had 550 lawyers when it officially dissolved on [...]
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