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Friday 10 June 2011

Employment

Job growth for lawyers will continue to be concentrated in salaried jobs as businesses and all levels of government employ a growing number of staff attorneys. Most salaried positions are in urban areas where government agencies, law firms, and big corporations are concentrated. The number of self-employed lawyers is expected to grow slowly, reflecting the difficulty of establishing a profitable new practice in the face of competition from larger, established law firms. Moreover, the growing complexity of the law, which encourages specialization, along with the cost of maintaining up-to-date legal research materials, favors larger firms.

"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
- Dan Lamper

33 comments:

  1. Dan Lamper is truly a 21st century descartes

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  2. always gonna be jobs for lawyers!

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  3. i had never heard the expression shoveling smoke but i love it

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  4. More and more crime = more and more lawyers needed!

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  5. ...shovelling smoke, I was thinking of something else more bovine related.

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  6. i should switch my major to law now =P

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  7. If I could ever meet this Dan Lamper, I would shake his hand.

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  8. I should become a philosopher like Dan Lamper. lol.

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  9. Do they go through periods of layoffs and hiring freezes too?

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  10. Shovelling smoke is a lovely turn of phrase.

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  11. Man, sucks it sounds hard to be a start up firm. A large firm would be easy to lose yourself in.

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  12. Shoveling smoke is a really good phrase lol.

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  13. I've never heard the term shoveling smoke, but i like it, lol

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  14. how does one shovel smoke?

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  15. So not even lawyers are immune to the consolidation of businesses, eh?

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  16. Somewhere, someone will always need a lawyer.

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  17. interesting information! thanks

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  18. Sounds like the lawyers are in good business!

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  19. If lawyers don't chase ambulances, who will?

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  20. Well, people will always need lawyers. like physicians.

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  21. There's always going to be palces for lawyers, even if it's getting harder and harder to train on your own

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  22. shoveling smoke, heh, nice metaphor.

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  23. I'm of the opinion that law should be simplified in some areas. Look at the tax code.

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  24. damn man that Dan Lamper personal must of been a real genius

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  25. Always enough work for Lawyers right

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  26. I guess that means there is plenty of room for more lawyers.

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