In the news: "A panel discussion by outsourcing experts and in-house counsel on Wednesday highlighted the in-house reluctance to pay for work by first- and even second-year associates, even as in-house lawyers on the panel acknowledged that the trend could harm their hiring pools in the future."
Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 11 March 2010. Copyright 2009. ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.
Organizations are currently facing the retirement of many older workers and the challenge of recruiting and retaining young talent. However, few studies have empirically substantiated generational differences in work values. This study examines the work values of a nationally representative sample of
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Source: idealawg, 10 March 2010, reproduced with permission of the author
The other reason that I'm not bothered, and actually happy to see students using their computers as I talk is this. My generation is pretty lame when it comes to gathering information in the digital world. In law this manifests itself most starkly in the world of e-discovery. Discovery, in law, is all about getting the low-down on what really happened in a lawsuit. You can get the low-down by interviewing witnesses or deposing them, but that takes time, costs money and is inherently unreliable. What people say happened is not usually exactly what happened...
Most lawyers have trouble with email (and digital information in general) because they don't understand how to navigate that world. Lawyers who don't search for things on Internet are the worst. They lack a fundamental skill that's needed to efficiently attack digital information. Naturally they're inept when it comes to handling electronic discovery. Some of them are committing serious malpractice. But, of course, they have no idea...
Law students today use the web like detectives. They know how to gather information (fine), but they instinctively know how to trace back the steps that other people use to find information. This mindset and the online research skills that come with it are dangerous. At least to some people...
The next generation will not graduate from law school and immediately surpass veteran lawyers. But they have a skill that's already in high demand, but short supply. Veteran lawyers can't quickly learn how to gather and process digital information. Most young lawyers will learn how to practice law fairly quickly, or at least much faster than the veteran lawyers will learn what they should be learning."
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Source: Ernie the Attorney, 8 March 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.
In the news: "The adage "It's not what you say, but how you say it" is true. In interviews you need to effectively communicate your professionalism both verbally and nonverbally. Valerie Fontaine and Roberta Kass discuss the importance of body language -- both yours and your interviewer's."
Topics discussed include:
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
POSTURE
VOICE
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
GESTURES
EYE CONTACT
READING THE INTERVIEWER'S BODY LANGUAGE
MIRRORING
YOUR EXIT
PRACTICE
Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 8 March 2010. Copyright 2009. ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.
Budget cutbacks have left many of us with more work than ever. Now new research by Dr. Danit Ein-Gar of
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Source: idealawg, 4 March 2010, reproduced with permission of the author
Prounounced "Slack-wah-zee". This term was coined by J. Daniel Hull, Esq., author of the "What About Clients?" blawg, and popularized by Scott H. Greenfield, Esq., author of the "Simple Justice" blawg. It refers to:
(1) a class of narcissistic young professionals, particularly attorneys (usually Gen Y/millenials), who believe that having a job is an entitlement, rather than a privilege. They often complain about the work they have (if working), opine the lack of "real lawyer" jobs available in the market, and are critical of the long hours and inadequate pay found at most small firms..."
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Source: idealawg,1 March 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author
This article was written by Richard Baum: "A colleague I just met at work has invited me to be their friend on Facebook. I don't want to offend them, but nor do I want to share my candid photos and lousy Scrabble scores with someone I hardly know.
Can I ignore their invite?
"Can I be your friend?" might work as an ice-breaker among small children, but it's not a question you hear often between adults, at least not outside of
Friendship, it is generally understood, is a relationship that evolves through shared interests, common experiences and a primeval need to share your neighbor's power tools.
Yet for many people, Facebook permits a return to the simplicity of the schoolyard.
Rather than inviting someone to be our Facebook friend only after we've become friends in the real world, many of us are using Facebook as a short-cut around all that time-consuming relationship building..."
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Source: Reuters, 22 February 2010. Hat Tip to Tom Mighell. Internet Legal Research Weekly. Volume 11, Issue 7. 28 February 2010. Subscribe <http://lists.inter-alia.net/mailman/listinfo/inter-alia>.
In the news: "Turning 50 has triggered some reflection by consultant Frank Michael D'Amore on what he's learned in 25-plus years in the legal profession. He discusses four important lessons that can help lawyers in both their professional and personal lives, including, 'Don't hold happiness hostage.'"
Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 26 February 2010. Copyright 2009. ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.
In the news: "Beth Baldwin, an assistant state disciplinary counsel in Connecticut, says there's increased demand for trustees -- lawyers who volunteer to assist clients, refer cases and clean up files when another lawyer has died or can no longer maintain a practice. "People are working longer and doing things on a smaller scale and once they're gone there's no one there to pick up the pieces," she says. Trustee work requires a significant amount of commitment, but volunteers also find it rewarding to help other lawyers."
Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 26 February 2010. Copyright 2009. ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.
