Showing posts with label lawyers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lawyers. Show all posts
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Lawyerly characteristics of American law students

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 The Americans With Disabilities Act requires schools to make accommodations for students whose disabilities require extra time for completi...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Hiring former Supreme Court Clerks (is expensive)

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 The Washington Post has the story: Clerks for hire: The Supreme Court recruiting race . Supreme Court clerks are offered bonuses of up to $...
Friday, January 26, 2024

The DOJ on competition for workers

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  A lot of market design is done by regulators, and some of that is done to enforce existing laws.  Here's a report from the Department ...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Unraveling of the market for new law professors

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  Kim Krawiec , a law professor who is among the most penetrating analysts of controversial markets and market practices, emails me about un...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Further unraveling of law firm offers to (first year) law students, and offers to new (first week) bankers from private equity

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Eric Budish writes with a pointer to a Business Insider story on the current unraveling of the market for new lawyers and big law firms. Ins...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Lawsuits involving NKR's kidney exchange contracts

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  Kim Krawiec, the Sullivan & Cromwell Professor of Law at the University of Virginia,  sheds some light on recent legal exchanges betwe...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Exploding offers of admission to Notre Dame Law School

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Notre Dame Law School has apparently sent out more acceptance letters than it has positions, and the offers will expire automatically once s...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Unraveling of appellate court clerkships (only more so)

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Steve Leider writes: "I know you keep an eye on the unraveling of judicial hiring.  Listening to a podcast about the supreme court t...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

An online spot market for lawyers

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Need a lawyer, but not a big law firm?  A Britain-based firm, Lexoo , will recommend lawyers they think are appropriate for your case, and ...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Salaries of new lawyers at big law firms are on the move

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After a long period of stagnation, salaries of lawyers in associate positions at large law firms recently started to move, and are climbing...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Some adult supervision of the law clerk hiring process

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Kagan Says She'll 'Take Into Account' Whether Judges Follow New Clerk Hiring Plan " U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Ka...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Another New Federal Law Clerk Hiring (Pilot) Plan

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Future law clerks who are already in their second or third year of law school have already been hired, but here's a plan to defer the h...
Sunday, July 3, 2016

The market for first year lawyers: some top salaries are moving to 180K

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After years at which top salaries for brand new lawyers at big firms were concentrated at $160,000, the magic number seems to be jumping to...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

More on (third party) litigation financing, including a medieval word, "champerty"

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In the NY Times: Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit? In recent years, investors have started buying shares in other people’s li...
Monday, October 5, 2015

how can David sue Goliath? A new marketplace for litigation funding

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Justice and the courts are in principle available to all, but litigation is expensive. So it may be hard for a plaintiff of limited means (...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Matching German lawyers to their first jobs

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There's a lot of interesting market design problems being studied in Germany these days.  Here's a recent working paper from the De...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Law clerk hiring

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Over at Concurring Opinions a little while ago was this : The Law Clerk Hiring Process – An Interview with Federal Judge Thomas Ambro Qu...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Race based admissions, and the search for plaintiffs

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The NY Times has an interesting story that touches on various transactions that some people regard as repugnant...in this case, race-based...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The Federal Law Clerk Hiring Plan is officially over

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Here is the official announcement, dated January 13, 2014: To: All United States Judges From: Judge John D. Bates RE: LAW CLERK HIRING...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Congestion in the market for law internships in Israel

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Aviad Heifetz points me to an article in the Haaretz magazine, on law clerks (in Hebrew, but Google Translate makes it clear enough that th...