<p>SO if I am reading this correctly, you have about 10% who are unemployed
- 9 months after law school graduation</p>
<p>and an unknown percentage who are “underemployed”-- (temp attorneys-contract and document review clerks).</p>
<p>once firms and corporations realize that they can get by with hiring “underemployed attorneys” and temporary legal staff to do document reviews, para-legal responsibilities, and preliminary courtroom work, the Corporations may cut back their in-house legal staff as they will not have to hire as many full time attorneys and pay high salaries and full benefits. They can rely more on their Temp legal staff to do the background and research. And of course as “independent contractors”, the underemployed attorneys will be responsible for their health and pension costs. </p>
<p>The world of employment is changing for EVERYONE!
less and less job security, lower salaries and a certain unease about the future. </p>
<p>I am actually glad I am getting older- I think our kids and grandkids are going to have it a lot tougher than we did.</p>
<p>just went to LSD site in which they mentioned an article- so I’m gonna try to link it up</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.balkin.blogspot.com/2007/11/are-law-schools-harming-individuals-and.html]Balkinization[/url”>Balkinization: Are Law Schools Harming Individuals and Society?]Balkinization[/url</a>]</p>
<p>hope the link works! It does work- didn’t have time to read the article- but a quick glance, it looks like it is a similar topic to our discussion.</p>