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• Legal Sector Lost 2,900 Jobs in November

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  Updated: The overall U.S. unemployment rate fell to 10 percent from 10.2 percent last month, but the legal services sector still didn't get off too easy. According to seasonally adjusted numbers, the law sector lost 2,900 jobs in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says in this month's report (PDF). [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:52pm EST
  

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• Harvard Law Students Clamor for Public Interest Jobs, Forcing Program Cuts

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  Updated: Harvard Law School has reinstated free coffee and announced stipends of $35,000 to 12 graduates working in public interest law. But in a year of tight budgets, something had to give. Now on the chopping block: a pilot program announced last year that waived third-year tuition for students who [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:11am EST
  

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• Nasty Attitude to Co-Worker, Naughty Word in E-Mail Cost 2 Their Jobs

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  A hearing officer had discretion to terminate an 11-year government civil service employee over her obnoxious treatment of a co-worker, a New York appeals court has ruled. The fired woman, Penny Sindoni, was an organizer of the "I Hate Teena" club directed at a disliked fellow Tioga County Health Department [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:54pm EST
  

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• Should a Banned Broker Become a Journalist?

  —Gary Weiss

  I was being bombarded with word of the ongoing BusinessWeek slaughter, when I heard of the squabble between Felix Salmon and Henry Blodget.
  
  The question is whether it's kosher that Blodget (and other banned securities industry people) should take away jobs from out of work journalists--like [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  by Gary Weiss

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• New Guide Aims to Help Would-Be Public Interest Lawyers Evaluate Law Schools

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  A new online publication is aimed at filling a void in existing law school rankings by tailoring its information to would-be public interest lawyers. The Equal Justice Works Guide to Law Schools has information on the percentage of graduates in public service jobs; public interest field placements and clinics; and [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:54pm EST
  

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• ABA Should Collect School Data on Law Grads’ Salaries and Debt, Prof Says

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  Would-be law students could better evaluate law schools if they knew more about graduates' jobs, salaries and debt loads, a law professor says. Writing at the Legal Profession Blog, Indiana University law professor William Henderson says the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar should collect three' [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:59am EST
  

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• Legal Sector Lost 5,800 Jobs Last Month, Labor Bureau Says

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  As the nation's unemployment rate topped 10 percent last month, lawyers were not spared. The legal sector lost 5,800 jobs, according to seasonally adjusted statistics in a just-released report (PDF) from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. When not seasonally adjusted, the figures show a gain of 1,500 jobs, but [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:05pm EST
  

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