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Law Practice

Jul. 27, 2011

It's time to match lawyers who need work with clients who can most benefit

California will produce almost twice as many attorneys as the labor market will be able to absorb over the next four years. By Lincoln Ellis of UCLA School of Law


By Lincoln Ellis


As recent law school graduates prepare to take the California July bar exam, many are as concerned about finding a job as they are about memorizing the law. The anemic legal job market has been receiving much-deserved attention of late. In January, The New York Times asked if "law school is a losing game" and focused primarily on the downturn in corporate transactional and litigation work. Even after the economy rebounds, there ...

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