Too Many Law Students, Too Few Legal Jobs
Ten months after graduation, only 60 percent of the law school class of 2014 had found full-time long-term jobs that required them to pass the bar exam. Read more…
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New Study Shows Rising Use of Cell Phones While Driving
Recently, The Office of Traffic Safety and the California Highway Patrol released a new study regarding California motorists on their cell phones while driving. The study revealed there has been a 39 percent increase of California resident’s using their cell…
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You’re A Lawyer, Now What?
The marketing world calls recognitions, awards, and honors third-party validations. These achievements can be very valuable marketing tools for lawyers and if used correctly help you stand out in an increasingly competitive legal market. Further, these achievements mean that much…
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Class of 2010 Ushered In Law Schools’ Lost Generation
From New York Times Jonathan Wang has not practiced law since he graduated from Columbia Law School in 2010, but he did not plan it that way. When he entered law school, the economy was flourishing, and he had every…
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The Legal Bubble Can’t Pop Soon Enough
Article from Boston Globe IS AMERICA’S lawyer bubble getting ready to pop? Critics have long bewailed our national glut of lawyers, to little effect. Chief Justice Warren Burger predicted 35 years ago that America was turning into “a society overrun…
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Lawyers By Capita Per State
Article from The Law Tuition Bible Many readers find their way to the Law School Tuition Bubble by searching for the “number of attorneys per capita by state” and discover research I did way back in the summer of 2010.…
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A Simple Solution To The Lawyer Glut
– Article from Forbes.com John A. Byrne runs the very good (and clever) TippingTheScales website devoted to law schools. He asked me, a proud member of the Rutgers University Law School Class of ’83, what I thought about the lawyer…
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