Category Archives for Contract Attorney Market: Trends

Connecticut Bill Would Regulate Offshoring Document Review

19 January 2011 – A Connecticut state legislator is concerned that the outsourcing of legal work has taken jobs away from recent law school grads and introduced a bill to address the “doc

A compendium of document review/contract attorney articles from last week

August 9, 2010
/ Contract Attorney Market: Trends Top Story

There were a number of articles on document review and contract attorneys last week. The discuss the challenges faced by contract atorneys and legal support professionals, how to recruit for and manage

Contract lawyer sues NYC law firm for not paying overtime

A contract lawyer is suing Labaton Sucharow alleging that the law firm violated federal labor laws by not paying time-and-a-half for overtime. The contract lawyer, Moshe Koplowitz, said that Labaton

In-house law departments (and law firms) rely more on project attorneys/contract attorneys

July 6, 2010
/ Contract Attorney Market: Trends Top Story

6 July 2010 — There is an interesting article in today’s The Legal Intelligencer about the increasing use of using “project attorneys” and “contract attorneys” to handle an increased

Law Firms Express “Growing Enthusiasm” for Contract Lawyers

June 22, 2010
/ Contract Attorney Market: Trends

22 June 2010 — Some interesting stuff from the recently published Altman Weil survey of leaders of law firms with more than 50 lawyers. Forty-four percent of the firms laid off associates last

Do we smell doc review projects a-comin’ … or perhaps it’s just the stench of petroleum?

June 8, 2010
/ BP Oil Spill Litigation Contract Attorney Market: Trends

Oil, oil, oil, oil …. As has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, Lawyer Weekly and various other sources, companies that potentially face civil or criminal liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil

Uniform Bar Exam Drawing Closer to Reality

October 12, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Contract Attorney Market: Trends

It could mark one of the biggest changes for lawyers joining the profession since the first U.S. bar examination was given in Delaware in 1763 — a single bar exam aimed at standardizing attorney

Staff attorney lay-offs continue, impacting contract attorneys

October 6, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Contract Attorney Market: Trends

One refuge for many contract attorneys has been direct employment as a staff attorney at a number of firms that adopted the “staff attorney” model for document review and temporary work. But as Above

ILTA, trend lines in the e-discovery market, FCPA, foreign language, document review, yadda yadda yadda: the “takeaways” for contract attorneys

The summer and Labor Day holidays are over, and so we are off. The ILTA conference (our coverage is here) held two weeks ago was an eye-opener on new trend lines, jobs for contract attorneys,

Cadwalader’s new manpower model: contract attorneys

August 2, 2009
/ Changing Legal Landscape Contract Attorney Market: Trends

In July 2009, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft put 34 associates on an involuntary sabbatical. Now, as reported by Above the Law (click here) the firm is offering to hire them back as contract attorneys,

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