As part of its annual NLJ 250 survey, the National Law Journal surveyed the firms—including the ones that didn’t make the top 250 firms list—about their hiring: which law schools they hired from and how many were hired from each law school. That information is now available from ALM Research Online in the Lists & Rankings section as the 2007 Law School Hiring Survey. As a bonus, firms also contributed information about how many associates were elevated to partnership in 2007.
January 14, 2008
Law Schools Are Failing to Teach the #1 Factor for Career Success
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that “Partnership is No Longer a Tenured Position” as partners who fail to maintain rich client lists and revenues are being demoted, fired or “de-equitized”. Don’t wait to learn the truth, as these partners did, that law, like any other profession, is a business. And businesses exist to make money. In the legal profession, revenues are derived from clients. So you’re going to need clients! Make no mistake about it; having a “book of business” is the holy grail of success in today’s legal marketplace. --Cole Silver is a lawyer and certified career and marketing consultant and can be found at: http://www.findcareersuccess.com.
Posted by: Cole Silver, Esquire | January 22, 2008 at 10:48 AM