This will likely be my last entry. After starting this blog in May and posting for the last seven and a half months, I'm handing off duties to my former colleagues at WUCL Career Services. I've enjoyed writing and hope that the information has been useful. If any WUCL law students or alumni are interested in being volunteer bloggers, please contact WUCL Career Services. I wish you continued career and personal success. The best to you in 2007 and beyond. Happy New Year!
The New Year is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Cultures that measure yearly calendars all have New Year celebrations.Happy 2007!
Many job seekers use the Internet when looking for employment opportunities. Searching hundreds of job posting sites individually is not the most efficient use of time. Instead, use a job aggregator to search hundreds of job boards, company sites and newspaper want ads at one time. Indeed, SimplyHired and PageBites are a few popular aggregators. Additionally, these aggregators allow you to subscribe to your search results via e-mail or RSS feeds.
At Legal Ease Blog, Allison C. Shields offers some networking advice in three postings, Holiday Networking Tips, Networking for Shy People and Networking: What do I say?
Law school debt, according to a nationwide survey released today by Equal Justice Works, is harming the legal profession and our justice system. Public service is a calling for many law school graduates, but research on employment trends finds an alarming shortage of public sector and social justice jobs that provide a reasonable standard of living for those with educational debt, which now stands between many law school graduates and their desire to pursue public service careers.
The mortgage-sized debt burdens of law school graduates have far-reaching effects according to "Financing the Future: Responses to the Rising Debt of Law Students." It is issued by Equal Justice Works, the leading national group organizing, training and supporting public service minded law students and creating summer and postgraduate public-interest jobs.
Average starting salaries for first year associates at firms with more than 75 lawyers will be between $99,000 and $129,000, an increase of 6.2 percent from 2006. Average salaries for lawyers with four to nine years experience will be between $120,000 and $185,500, an increase of 1.2 percent in 2007.
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