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Look around your law school campus and you will see the carnage left behind by the financial crisis. Classes of 2009/2010/2011 are left job...

The Nevada desert is a brutal, unforgiving place. It's like 1,000,000 degrees, and there is no shade (save for the REALLY spiny tree/cac...

Several months ago, we opened a thread putting forth a commenter's proposal for changes to law firm compensation that would help firms ...

From time to time, we receive e-mails notifying us of upcoming events. We always appreciate the information and are more than happy to pass...

In light of this article from  Law.com , I thought I'd bump one of BBL's first (and finest, IMO) contentious postings: BigLaw Compen...

In light of our earlier open thread regarding changes in BigLaw compensation, we wanted to highlight a new emerging trend a reader alerted ...

We are pleased to confirm reports that several New York law firms will be raising first year salaries to $190,000 per year. A spokesperson ...

It's hard to feel optimistic about our country's economic future these days, and it is increasingly apparent that the legal industry...

“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and t...

In response to an earlier article , a commenter had an interesting proposal for "Big Law" compensation: Here's what my proposa...

Commenters on this blog, as well as others, have expressed their amazement that anybody would choose to attend law school in this econom...

We need innovative solutions to some of the emerging problems facing the legal industry.  I sat down and began to think of a way that legal...

Between the four or so letters I have received from my law school urging me to clerk after graduation, I have come to understand that clerki...

Feel free to comment generally on today's news of massive law firm layoffs.  Thoughts? Apprehensions? Suggestions for the future of the ...