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Are you kidding me? The article stopped making sense right at the beginning: > But, perhaps surprisingly, electronic discovery software has not thrown paraleg
by riskable 11y ago
Are you kidding me? The article stopped making sense right at the beginning:
> But, perhaps surprisingly, electronic discovery software has not thrown paralegals and lawyers into unemployment lines. In fact, employment for paralegals and lawyers has grown robustly.
WHAT?! The statistics they chose from the US Department of Labor were cherry picked and out-of-context. Lawyers are seriously hurting right now:
> The national unemployment rate for law graduates has grown for the sixth year in a row to a whopping 15.5 percent, according to a report by the National Association for Law Placement. This unemployment exists despite soaring law school tuition.
Taken from:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/natalie-gregg/mamas-dont-let-your-babie_2_b_6457898.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/natalie-gregg/mamas-dont-let-y...
More:
http://qz.com/206705/the-us-lawyer-bubble-has-conclusively-popped/ http://qz.com/206705/the-us-lawyer-bubble-has-conclusively-p...
Another good read (don't have to watch the video to get the gist):
http://abovethelaw.com/2013/10/this-pretty-much-sums-up-the-plight-of-the-unemployed-lawyer/ http://abovethelaw.com/2013/10/this-pretty-much-sums-up-the-...
- jsprogrammer 11y agoYou are talking about newly minted lawyers. If they have never a held paid position as someone's representative, or in some other way practiced law in exchange for money, they would not be able to get into any unemployment line as a lawyer.