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10/28/2009
Ben Glass
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Market for young attorneys continues to be quite difficult

Virginia Lawyers Weekly has an article in this weeks edition about the use of "contract attorneys" by large law firms. These are, by and large, highly qualified young attorneys for scanning and coding documents per $25 an hour. They spend hours and hours a day reviewing thousands of documents.

I wonder if the law firms feel any guilt whatsoever about completely ignoring the business side of the practice of law

? In failing to teach lawyers how to start and grow a business? How to market?



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Labels: entrepreneurship

1 Comments to "Market for young attorneys continues to be quite difficult"

This sounds like John Grisham's novel "The Associate." Although the story lacked pizazz, the realities of BigLaw life seemed to play out rather well.

There's one portion of the novel where the protagonist gets locked in a gigantic, secure warehouse for hours a day doing document review. They're paid more than $25/hour, but it's no less tedious.
Posted by Jeffrey Taylor on October 28, 2009 at 06:20 AM

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