Showing posts with label lawyer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lawyer. Show all posts

February 20, 2014

Glenn Greenwald - Lawyer, blogger, partisan journalist


Glenn Greenwald said in an interview with the FT: 
"The way I entered the public discourse was a fairly untraditional route. I did not get my own column in the New York Times, I created my own blog on Blogspot. In order to break through and be heard and force media figures to respond, there had to be a lot of aggression. I have a bigger platform now than I did several years ago, so I probably should have adjusted my tactics a little bit more. I don’t need to be so acrimonious and aggressive but you do not always realise that your position has changed. I still think of myself as an outsider who is not at The New York Times or Washington Post, so I need to speak loudly and sometimes harshly. Part of it is personality: I enjoy the clash of ideas. I am not looking to be liked by them [Washington journalists] so the acrimony comes a little more easily for me."

February 13, 2014

Too many lawyers


The co-CEO of leading international law firm DLA Piper Nigel Knowles wrote in The News Statesman here:
"The [legal] sector is still remarkably fragmented: there are simply too many firms (and too many lawyers) offering the same services without any clear differentiation. Consolidation is an imminent certainty and, furthermore, I expect to see consolidation on an unprecedented scale." 

May 31, 2013

Why does every want to go to Law School? Ctd 'Nearly 2/3s of U.S. Parents Want Their Kids to be a Lawyer' (And What About the UK?)

According to research by lawyers.com, two-thirds of parents in America want their kids to become lawyers. This comes in the face of a legal economy that is flat and a labour market for law school graduates that is uncertain to say the least. Read the article by lawyers.com here.

I pointed the research out to Legal Cheek and got a fitting hat tip in return:

Also got some response and feedback to the news:

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