I'm encouraging readers to visit and participate in JD Junkyard. JDU has jumped the shark, IMHO. While I'm not an old-timer, I joined JDU when it was still a vibrant hangout for disaffected lawyers and law graduates. Lately, it's been overrun by trolls and drooling nitwits. There is still quality content, but like TLS, it's not worth wading through the crap to get to it.
Please note that I have no association with JD Junkyard and was not asked to publicize it.
Good news, and even better news. The good news is there were 3,900 legal jobs added in April. Granted, about 45,000 people are about to graduate from ABA schools, but that means 3,900 fewer JD baristas, JD stock clerks, and JD unemployed.
The even better news is the ABA is set to give provisional accreditation to UMass Law, f/k/a Southern New England School of Law. Harvard, look out! It's comforting knowing that even though the planet is going to hell, that the sun continues to rise every morning and the ABA continues to [A]lways [B]e [A]ccrediting.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm
| Not seasonally adjusted | April | 2011 | 1,108,500 | |
| February | 2012 | 1,111,800 | ||
| March | 2012 | 1,111,700 | ||
| April | 2012 | 1,116,500 | 8,000 | |
| Seasonally adjusted | April | 2011 | 1,114,000 | |
| February | 2012 | 1,118,700 | ||
| March | 2012 | 1,117,000 | ||
| April | 2012 | 1,120,900 | 6,900 | |
| Change from Mar-12 to Apr-12 | 3,900 |
