A. Harrison Barnes LawCrossing
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Andrew Harrison Barnes is the founder and CEO of EmploymentScape, the parent company of more than 90 job-search websites (including LawCrossing.com), employment services, and student loan companies. EmploymentScape (originally Juriscape) employs several hundred employees in 14 offices throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe.
LawCrossing offers the largest collection of active legal jobs in the world. We continuously monitor the hiring needs of more than 250,000 legal employers, including virtually every law firm, corporation, government office, and public interest organization in the United States. We do not charge employers to post their jobs, and we aggressively contact and investigate thousands of employers each day to learn of new positions.
An exclusive community of users, LawCrossing subscribers benefit from up-to-the-hour information on new legal jobs as it becomes available. We can even tell our members about jobs whether employers want information about them publicly disseminated or not.
Quite simply, we provide access to more legal jobs than any other source. There is nothing else available that even comes close.
A significant percentage of American attorneys and law students subscribe to LawCrossing. Our members rely on the site to keep up with the ever-changing job market on a daily basis. LawCrossing subscribers know the value of having access to the premier legal portal on the web. LawCrossing empowers attorneys, legal staff members, and law students to know about the market at all times.
LawCrossing offers the largest collection of active legal jobs in the world. We continuously monitor the hiring needs of more than 250,000 legal employers, including virtually every law firm, corporation, government office, and public interest organization in the United States. We do not charge employers to post their jobs, and we aggressively contact and investigate thousands of employers each day to learn of new positions.
An exclusive community of users, LawCrossing subscribers benefit from up-to-the-hour information on new legal jobs as it becomes available. We can even tell our members about jobs whether employers want information about them publicly disseminated or not.
Quite simply, we provide access to more legal jobs than any other source. There is nothing else available that even comes close.
A significant percentage of American attorneys and law students subscribe to LawCrossing. Our members rely on the site to keep up with the ever-changing job market on a daily basis. LawCrossing subscribers know the value of having access to the premier legal portal on the web. LawCrossing empowers attorneys, legal staff members, and law students to know about the market at all times.
My mission
Many people think they can do the work we do at LawCrossing on their own. We review more than 10,000 websites in search of jobs per day and search virtually every other job source (printed or Internet-based) for jobs, as well. There is literally no job board or printed source anywhere that contains more legal jobs. Each and every day of the week, more than 150 LawCrossing employees devote themselves to researching every single legal employer and finding every single legal job that is available for you.
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The Job Search Market in Bad Economies
September 26th, 2008
I had a discussion yesterday with a manager of Legal Authority, my favorite job search company for attorneys, about exactly what happens in the market when there is a recession. Specifically, what occurs in the job market for attorneys–who gets hired and who does not get hired. Since I have been witnessing this process in place for years I thought understanding the dynamics of this would be instructive.
On its most basic level, what happens is job in the legal community involving transactional work slow down for the most part and jobs involving litigation speed up for the most part.
Jobs in general corporate, securities and real estate typically slow down dramatically. Patent law can also slow down but there is typically a larger “lag” in the time it takes to slow down. Jobs in trademark also also tend to stop or slow down because this work is something that is typically done when lots of new businesses are being started. Real estate slows down because people are not doing as many large purchases and being more careful with the work they give out. Corporate slows down because companies are more careful about giving out work. Patent work in the system (”in stream”) continues but new patent work is much slower to enter law firms. This results in a delay in the slow down of 2-3 years before attorneys really begin to notice the slowdown in work.
With respect to litigation, this tends to increase a little bit. When the economy gets bad people are much more aware of potential losses in their business dealing caused by the wrongdoing of other parties and they sue.
This is a very general summary of what occurs in the market when it gets really bad and it is exactly what it going on now.
September 26th, 2008
I had a discussion yesterday with a manager of Legal Authority, my favorite job search company for attorneys, about exactly what happens in the market when there is a recession. Specifically, what occurs in the job market for attorneys–who gets hired and who does not get hired. Since I have been witnessing this process in place for years I thought understanding the dynamics of this would be instructive.
On its most basic level, what happens is job in the legal community involving transactional work slow down for the most part and jobs involving litigation speed up for the most part.
Jobs in general corporate, securities and real estate typically slow down dramatically. Patent law can also slow down but there is typically a larger “lag” in the time it takes to slow down. Jobs in trademark also also tend to stop or slow down because this work is something that is typically done when lots of new businesses are being started. Real estate slows down because people are not doing as many large purchases and being more careful with the work they give out. Corporate slows down because companies are more careful about giving out work. Patent work in the system (”in stream”) continues but new patent work is much slower to enter law firms. This results in a delay in the slow down of 2-3 years before attorneys really begin to notice the slowdown in work.
With respect to litigation, this tends to increase a little bit. When the economy gets bad people are much more aware of potential losses in their business dealing caused by the wrongdoing of other parties and they sue.
This is a very general summary of what occurs in the market when it gets really bad and it is exactly what it going on now.
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