Employment Patterns — 20-Year Trends — 1982 - 2002, NALP Bulletin, August 2003
Wisnik Career Enterprises Founder Eva Wisnik shares highlights and trends from the company’s 2021 surveys of legal recruiting professionals across five cities.
This article explores how AI can revolutionize performance reviews by uncovering growth opportunities while reshaping workplace communication through tone interpretation and emotional response management.
NALP Research: A Demographic Profile of Judicial Clerks 1992-2007, June 2008
Suited Co-Founder and CEO Matthew Spencer explains how law firms can use artificial intelligence to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in recruiting and hiring.
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NALP Research: Trends
Past NALP President Gina Sauer, who is President of Attavita, shares seven tips for virtual presentations in the legal profession, including using signposts and being patient with Q&A sessions.
NALP’s individual graduate employment data, which includes a variety of demographic information, allows us to compare general characteristics with more detailed information on law school graduates and the kinds of jobs they take.
NALP Research: Women and Minorities at Law Firms — What Has Changed and What Has Not in the Past 25 Years (2018)
Jessica R. Natkin and Jessica L. Hernandez offer an advance look at Let’s Coach All the Lawyers: An Essential Primer for Professionals Developing Legal Talent, which is a new book that can be used to foster growth and move beyond common issues in the legal workplace.
Brown Rudnick LLP’s Alexandra Gharghoury and McDermott Will & Emery LLP’s Amanda Ryan examine strategies for lateral associate recruiting in a market with lots of job activity related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Director of Research Danielle Taylor provides details on results from NALP’s Survey on 2021 Lateral Hiring, which shows an 111% increase in lateral hiring last year in comparison to 2020.
Grover Cleveland offers insights on how to plan, manage and execute virtual summer programming for law students and firms.
The most successful lawyers aren’t only “book smart,” but they also show high emotional intelligence. Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP’s Kendra Brodin explains why it matters.
Analyzing decades of NALP Employment Report & Salary Survey data as part of NALP’s 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition Bulletin.
NALP Director of Research Danielle Taylor explains how to use NALP’s Buying Power Index, a resource that helps compare the buying power of legal salaries for 93 cities.
NALP President Traci Mundy Jenkins of Venable LLP explains why it’s important for law students to take advantage of education and resources about professionalism from their career services offices and develop those skills early in their careers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced professionals to spend much more time on video. Marsha Redmon provides six simple tweaks to improve your video presentation skills.
Going crazy while working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic? Kelly Green offers tips for lawyers and law students to help manage multiple schedules.
NALP President-Elect Karl Riehl of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. explains why the time is now to get involved with volunteer leadership roles at the association.
University of Ottawa’s Staci Angelis explores the effects of burnout and stress on lawyers and professionals in the legal field.
Many AM Law firms have seen demand for legal work increase over the past few years, but which practices have firms been focusing on? Using publicly-available data tracked by Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP), we've taken a look at some of the key practice growth trends among the AM Law 200 over the last three years.
NALP’s 2021-22 PSJD Fellow Chelsea-Leigh Flucus explores wage transparency and its impact on public service attorneys as employers strive to retain their workers amid the “Great Resignation.”
Suited Founder and CEO Matt Spencer provides views on some legal industry hiring trends observed in 2022, and why the organization is optimistic the legal profession is headed in the right direction in meeting DEI goals.
University of California Irvine School of Law’s Chelsea-Leigh Flucus, the 2021-22 NALP PSJD Fellow, offers observations on continuing the conversation about the positives from remote and hybrid work flexibility.
Research: Salary Trends for New Law Graduates - 1985-2013, NALP Bulletin, January 2015
NALP Director of Research Danielle Taylor shares results from a Pulse member survey on the impacts of COVID-19 on law schools and law firms.
Director of Research Danielle A. Taylor provides an overview of key takeaways related to JD Advantage jobs from NALP’s Class of 2020 Employment Report and Salary Survey.
Finnegan’s Johnna Story and Optia Consulting’s Jessie Spressart explain the growing relevance of Mental Health First Aid training and certification at law firms.
NALP Research: Trends in Median Reported Salaries — Class of 2020
LSU Paul M. Herbert Law Center’s Gwendolyn Ferrell and Holland & Knight’s Precillia Soares provide an update on the efforts of NALP’s Knowledge Management & Resource Implementation Advisory Group.
University of Akron School of Law’s Alecia Bencze offers tips for newer professionals in the legal field about how to build their online persona.
Jobs for New Law Graduates — Trends from 1991-2001, NALP Bulletin, August 2002
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool that law students and lawyers can use to their advantage.
NALP Vice-President for Finance Carlos Davila-Caballero calls on the association to increase the representation of people from diverse backgrounds on the NALP Board of Directors.
