Judges and Judiciary
May 22, 2013
Traditional skills still necessary, just no longer sufficient
While the market for new lawyers has certainly improved, the landscape awaiting them has changed in a number of important respects.
By most accounts, the legal job market has begun a steady recovery from an almost half-decade-long swoon. Firms of all sizes appear to be hiring again, and governmental employers are being coaxed off their starvation diets induced by budgetary exigencies.
And yet, what is also clear to most observers is that the "recovery" currently under way is qualitatively distinct from those we have witnessed before. During the last major legal hiring drought in the early 1990s, for instance ...
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