Legal Market Insights
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"Trump extends government hiring freeze for civilian executive branch workers,” 04.17.2025. The Washington, D.C.-area news station WTOP covered President Trump’s directive "that will extend the hiring freeze for federal agencies for three more months.”
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"M&A Dreams Fading, Big Law Is Now Preparing for a Recession," 04.17.25. Bloomberg Law’s Big Law Business column explores how law firms might respond to a recession, noting, "Even amid the attacks on law firms from Washington, law firm consultants say Big Law leadership discussions today are just as focused on the threat of a deteriorating economy. They’re dusting off recession playbooks crafted in the earliest days [of] the Covid-19 pandemic, hoping to avoid the deep cuts seen during [the] 2008 financial crisis that blew holes in their talent rosters for years to come.”
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"Percentage of New Law School Grads Who Have Landed a Job Reaches ’Record-High’,” Law.com reports, "For the third consecutive year American Bar Association data shows an uptick in growth for the graduating law class of 2024."
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"AI Disruption Is Coming — Later but (Much) Bigger than Expected," 04.15.25. The American Lawyer predicts "The short-term impacts of AI have been much exaggerated everywhere. Meanwhile, the long-term impact remains dramatically underestimated.”
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"5 Resilience Tips for Surviving an Existential Crisis," 04.09.25. In a new column at Law.com the Institute for Well-Being in Law provides tips for staying healthy while "the profession’s (figurative) house is on fire.”
