OcTTTober 2013

Headcount dropped around 1,000 in October and is on pace to finish a hair above the previous year, if that. One individual who will not be working as a lawyer is Christopher Knorps. At least not in NY. Thanks for calling this a-hole out, Nando. Either he or someone else with lots of time on his or her hands is the reason I now moderate comments.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Not seasonally adjusted	October	2012	1,125,900
	August	2013	1,130,000
	September	2013	1,124,000
	October	2013	1,130,200	4,300
Seasonally adjusted	October	2012	1,125,100
	August	2013	1,128,900
	September	2013	1,130,100
	October	2013	1,129,200	4,100
Change from Sep-13 to Oct-13				-900

September 2013

With a huge 6,600-position growth over the last twelve months, and almost 15K over the last three years, the legal industry is on fire!

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Not seasonally adjusted	September	2012	1,116,700
	July	2013	1,136,800
	August	2013	1,130,300
	September	2013	1,123,800	7,100
Seasonally adjusted	September	2012	1,123,700
	July	2013	1,126,100
	August	2013	1,129,200
	September	2013	1,130,300	6,600
Change from Aug-13 to Sep-13				1,100

Another LS applicant in action

Things have been a little overwhelmingly busy at work for a couple of months. Plus, with the gummint on its back, there is no glowing September BLS report on the legal industry. Since I'd like to keep the blog going, here's a law school aspirant making the leap; I hear applications have really dropped!

JD Junkyard is back

http://jdjunkyard.forumatic.com/viewforum.php?f=2
See you there.

August 2013

Did you hear about the impending lawyer shortage? No? Read the link! We're all screwed! Has the National Jurist ever steered us wrong?

Annual growth in the entire legal industry was a little over 6,000 jobs. There have been 15,000 positions added over the last three years. That's not lawyers; it's the whole damn industry. Put that in your JD-Advantage™ pipe and smoke it. Preliminary August growth was 2,700 jobs, which should bring cheer to scammers from Newark to Santa Clara.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Not seasonally adjusted	August	2012	1,122,400
	June	2013	1,134,400
	July	2013	1,136,600
	August	2013	1,129,600	7,200
Seasonally adjusted	August	2012	1,122,400
	June	2013	1,124,700
	July	2013	1,126,000
	August	2013	1,128,700	6,300
Change from Jul-13 to Aug-13				2,700

Borrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnnnnnggggggggggg

I made the mistake of ambling over to the ABA Journal to peruse Law school financing system in need of ‘serious re-engineering,’ task force says. Like many media websites, it ranks articles by views, comments, and e-mail forwards. So, what is this presTTTigious "profession" focused on this summer weekend?

As we can see, the Cooley suit and the law school financing reform article didn't interest readers as much as treadmill desks. The ranking changes in real time and both articles fell off the page while I was typing this.

I confidently predict that a Stetson associate dean scraping gum off her shoe would garner more interest from ABA Journal readers than a judge agreeing law school is a total scam. Especially if she was blowing a prospect at the time.

P.S.: Ignore the $15/hr contract article, #8. That's just a figure some scambloggers fabricated before being caught and excoriated by sharp-eyed law academics. Lawyers really make tons of money, as well-documented by a pair of Seton Hall and Rutgers professors. Big pimpin'.

July 2013

July 2013 featured a 2,800-worker gain over June, subject to the usual wholesale revision up or down. Year-over-year was a little better than flat.

Three-year growth was around 16,000. It would have been a lot larger but for the massive earnings potential of a JD luring holders away from law and into even more lucrative endeavors, making recruiting difficult. I'll get to Simkovic's paper eventually. In the interim, I encourage the terminally credulous to enroll somewhere, anywhere this fall. Remember the ABA motto, "It's a mistake to retake."

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Not seasonally adjusted	July	2012	1,135,100
	May	2013	1,125,100
	June	2013	1,134,500
	July	2013	1,138,800	3,700
Seasonally adjusted	July	2012	1,123,200
	May	2013	1,126,900
	June	2013	1,124,200
	July	2013	1,127,000	3,800
Change from Jun-13 to Jul-13				2,800