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Law – The US associate market hits its highest post-recession Q2 peak
Five years after the height of the recession, it has become abundantly clear that the reports of BigLaw’s death were greatly exaggerated. The associate market reached a new zenith during the recently concluded second quarter. Using an ARIMA model, (autoregressive integrated moving average model) we projected a forecast that the associate market should roughly conform … Continue reading
Maternity and paternity at work around the world – An ILO Report
The year 2019 will mark both the ILO’s 100th anniversary and the first centenary of international labour standards on maternity protection. In fact, protecting maternity at work was one of the primary concerns of the ILO. It was during the first International Labour Conference in 1919 that the first Convention on maternity protection (Convention No. … Continue reading
Job Search for Canadian Law Students – New job site launched
The Law Job Exchange, launched just three weeks ago, promises to “link you up with opportunities that you may have otherwise missed.” “The web site is all about sharing opportunities and I don’t think that’s something law students are necessarily used to with the competitiveness of the profession,” says web site founder Nikolitsa Katsoulias. “But … Continue reading
US Law School / The Oversupply of law school graduates
By now, even law schools themselves acknowledge that they’ve been churning out too many graduates for too few available jobs. Less widely appreciated, however, is that the lawyer glut appears to be much more severe in some parts of the country than in others. There’s nowhere in the United States that new JD’s have it especially … Continue reading
Chima / 7 interesting facts about employment law
Employers are obliged to employ a quota of people with disabilities, in appropriate types of job The representative office in China of a foreign company cannot directly recruit a Chinese citizen Statutory annual leave entitlement for employees is very low In many cases, legislation at provincial, regional or municipal level gives women a right to … Continue reading
UK | It is legal for companies to force retirement if in ‘public interest’
Companies could, for example, say they needed to dismiss older workers at 65 to make way for more entry-level jobs and younger staff climbing the career ladder, the long-awaited judgment signalled. It is the first time the “public interest” defence has been applied to age discrimination law, legal experts said, adding that the case gave … Continue reading
Some Law Students are graduating with more than $150,000 in debt
Among 195 ranked law schools surveyed annually by U.S. News, 191 reported the average indebtedness of graduating students in 2011, the most recent figures available. Overall, law students graduated with an average of $100,433 in debt, though at some of the schools with the most heavily debt-laden students, graduates faced an average debt of more … Continue reading
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