\par It's Not All Bad News \par

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It's Not All Bad News

What you typically hear from me regarding the legal hiring market, either in this blog or in meetings, are the hard realities of the present, and the slim chances of much improvement in the immediate future\par ]]>\par
I shared with you back in April, which pointed toward a hiring low point in the 2010-11 range. \par \par I would qualify this in several ways: 1) it is by no means a scientific survey, 2) employers could be wrong and merely be experiencing a brief, unsustainable surge, 3) there are still employers who feel things are just as bad as they were before (i.e. each individual employer may be experiencing a different reality) and 4) improved business may not have led to changes in hiring strategy / hiring new lawyers. Nevertheless, based on the employers I’ve recently met with, it appears things have been getting better.\par \par Our own school-specific measures tend to point in the same direction as well—that there is slight improvement going on and it’s slowly impacting legal hiring. Examples include: 1) Our 2013 graduating class employment statistics are up slightly over 2012, 2) There has been an increase in the total number of employers coming to campus to interview as compared to last year at this time, and 3) we’ve see an increase in the number of year-over-year job postings.\par \par While this data appears to point toward more opportunities across the board, I believe the public sector is specifically ripe. With state and other public organizations still coming out of a period of layoffs and hiring freezes, they are trying to catch up and keep up with increased demand for their services while still being (in some cases dramatically) understaffed.\par \par So there you have a few observations and evidence which points toward some positive aspects of the legal hiring market. Please keep this in perspective with everything else we communicate about the market: it’s still very tough and will likely remain so. But there is still a path forward, and we are willing to partner with you every step along the way!\par \par Connect with Daniel at Daniel_Hare@Baylor.edu and/or @BaylorLawDaniel on Twitter.\par \par Job of the Week: Each week I highlight a job in Symplicity you might be interested in but may have missed. This week's job is: Attorney at The Coffey Firm in Fort Worth(3L, alumni) Log in to Symplicity to view this job and apply. \par ]]>\par

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