NALP report: Summer associate recruiting remains steady
LAW.COM — Firms hired law students in similar numbers as the previous three years during last summer’s on-campus recruiting season, according to new data from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP).
Read More about NALP report: Summer associate recruiting remains steadyLegal employment edges up in February 2019
LAW.COM — As job gains remained nearly flat across the U.S. economy, the legal services industry added 600 jobs in February—one out of every 33 new non-farm jobs last month—continuing a trend of moderate gains and losses for the industry over the last several months, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
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PR NEWSWIRE — AccessLex Institute, a nonprofit organization which fosters broad-based access to quality legal education and works to maximize the value and affordability of a law degree, has announced it will offer a superior bar examination preparation program at a price that will rationalize and reset market pricing.
Read More about AccessLex Institute plans bar exam preparation programFederal judiciary adopts new ethics rules regarding harassment
ABA JOURNAL — New ethics rules adopted by the federal judiciary Tuesday make clear that sexual harassment is banned, and that judges and their employees have a reporting obligation when such conduct happens.
Read More about Federal judiciary adopts new ethics rules regarding harassmentWomen not represented in legal leadership positions despite outnumbering men in law school
JURIST MAGAZINE — In the 2018 elections, women played a larger role than in any other election in American history. The record-breaking number of women running for US senate, house, and gubernatorial seats motivated media outlets to label 2018 another “Year of the Woman.”
Read More about Women not represented in legal leadership positions despite outnumbering men in law schoolA look at the ABA technology conference
ABOVE THE LAW — In the dog years of technology, 33 years seems like a millennium. That is how much time has elapsed between the American Bar Association’s first TECHSHOW in 1986 and the one that convened for three days last week in Chicago.
Read More about A look at the ABA technology conferenceExperts provide advice on addressing hiring bias on college campuses
LAW.COM — The effects of implicit bias create huge potential for age, race and gender discrimination on college campuses—not only in the faculty recruiting process, but also in the recruiting process for students on campus.
Read More about Experts provide advice on addressing hiring bias on college campusesA look at efforts to reduce student debt and increase college affordability
LAW.COM — While some wealthy families, ensnared in a pay-to-play scandal revealed this week, have paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to insure their child gets enrolled in the college of their choice, thousands more students are struggling to pay for a college education.
Read More about A look at efforts to reduce student debt and increase college affordabilityCollege officials charged in bribery scheme lose ties to their universities
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Colleges moved quickly on Tuesday to distance themselves from coaches and other employees charged in the wake of an investigation into an admissions-bribery scheme that federal prosecutors announced that morning.
Read More about College officials charged in bribery scheme lose ties to their universitiesClass action lawsuit seeks $500 billion in damages from college admissions scandal
LAW.COM — A proposed nationwide class action filed in California state court seeks “no less than $500,000,000,000” from defendants caught up in the college admissions scandal that has captured the nation’s attention.
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