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Where have all the young lawyers gone?

January 5, 2011

Bar associations have been noticing a trend. “Young lawyers aren’t attending networking events.” I’ve been hearing this more and I’ve heard many explanations for it. The most popular reasons seem to be: “they prefer to network online,” and “they just don’t have the work ethic that baby boomers did.” What I haven’t heard is, “Maybe we’re not offering the kind of networking events that young lawyers value.”

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Transitions, Testing and Transparency: Saving Our Future Lawyers

May 27, 2010

Today I stumbled upon this important piece by the President of the State Bar of California. I have to hand it to Howard B. Miller. He attacks a topic that far too many leaders of legal organizations have shied away from: students who decide to attend school using school-reported job statistics and graduate into a [...]

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