Here are "10 Expert Tips" on getting a higher salary from PayScale, provider of "global online compensation information": "Determined to increase your salary in 2007? Follow these tips from Reesa Staten, vice president of communications and director of research at recruiting firm Robert Half International and Anna Ivey, a Boston-based career and admissions counselor, to...
How often have you dreamed about working remotely for your law firm? "Like most firms, at Traverse Legal we constantly grapple with dilemmas about staffing. The uncertainty of workload always creates a serious quandary. Understaffing can fuel burnout, and can leave otherwise necessary billable work undone. It also can lead to client friction. How many times have your staffing problems caused...
No, really, it's true! "Five law firms made Fortune magazine's list this year of the best 100 employers to work for -- one less than last year. "Alston & Bird, Arnold & Porter, Nixon Peabody, Perkins Coie and Bingham McCutchen held their ground. But Morrison & Foerster, the only California-based firm to make the 2006 list, dropped off the chart. "'It's a brisk...
This is not really new news, but it's nice to have "paralegal job growth" confirmed: "According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for paralegals is very good, with an expected growth rate near 33 percent a year through 2010. The bureau notes that compared to other professions, the leap in the paralegal field is dramatic. "The paralegal or legal assistant...
More outsourcing of legal work, this time in Sri Lanka: "WNS, a NYSE-listed business process outsourcing (BPO) major, is seeing a huge momentum in legal services. "Riding high on the legal process outsourcing wave, WNS has started legal services in Sri Lanka about eight months back and now has over 30 lawyers there. It has also scaled up the existing Pune operations, with more than 80...
Well, this must be good news. More lawyers working means more paralegals needed, right? "The nation's largest 250 law firms grew by 4 percent in 2006, a figure that was just shy of last year's gains but still reflected a sound legal economy. "The results of the 2006 NLJ 250, The National Law Journal's 29th annual survey of the nation's largest law firms, revealed that 121,423...
Is this another example of how automation can negatively affect employment? I'm not sure there are really fewer paralegal jobs, particularly for people with experience or specific skills: "Thanks in part to new technologies that help law firms sort and scan documents, firms are hiring fewer paralegals than they did during the 1990s, when demand was so high that people with little...
Not surprising news to litigation paralegals, but what about the new career opportunities provided? "The pre-trial discovery phase and case management processes have grown so complex in corporate legal cases that lawyers increasingly rely on technology experts to help them gather and wade through the evidence. "The need for what is known as litigation support is growing quickly, and San...
Fantastic article about how AXA Equitable Life Insurance hired paralegals to save time, money, & turnover in attorneys. Like, duh...... "It’s a question many a CEO has asked his or her general counsel—Can we reduce legal department spending by bringing more work in-house? "When AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. CEO Christopher Condron posed the question last year, he didn’t...
Comments about the attrition of associates probably of interest to paralegals too: "Interesting post from Larry Bodine about how the associate attrition problems that I blogged about last week are taking a toll on lawyer marketing efforts. Apparently, because few lawyers see themselves as making partner or don't care about partnership as a goal, they're not particularly interested in...