Tag Archives for " Above the Law "

Contract attorneys, “status” and a paradigm shift in their favor … with some observations by Gabe Acevedo

We all know about the paradigm shift in the legal industry. It has been well chronicled by Richard Susskind, Jordon Furlong, Ron Friedmann and many others. The legal industry melt down, the

Cadwalader’s new manpower model: contract attorneys

August 2, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Contract Attorney Market: Trends

In July 2009, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft put 34 associates on an involuntary sabbatical. Now, as reported by Above the Law (click here) the firm is offering to hire them back as contract attorneys,

One BigLaw firm says “we get it” : marking the death of BigLaw as we knew it

April 15, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Top Story

As has been reported, there were layoffs this week at Womble Carlyle. But that was not the big news. The big news was Womble decided to address the general retrenchment of the legal market

The contract attorney market: status, trends and outlook-Part 1

April 2, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Contract Attorney Market: Trends

The paradigm-shift Almost 7,000 lawyers have been laid off in the first two months of this year. And all are not yet accounted for. In today’s New York Times Adam Cohn dissects the paradigm-shifting

Orrick Offers Jobs in Wheeling, WV to Georgetown Law students

April 1, 2009
/ Specific law firms

From the Above the Law blog: Sign of the Times: Orrick Offers Jobs in Wheeling, WV to GULC Students There’s an interesting job opening Orrick is extending to a number of recent graduates. We got

Layoff tracker

March 16, 2009
/ Contract Attorney Market: Trends

For those of you who are following/want to follow the carnage at BigLaw the blogger “Above the Law” has linked up with “Lawschucks” to provide a “layoff tracker”. See

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