by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
This past week I received an advance review copy of Life After Law: Finding Work You Love With the J.D. You Have, by Liz Brown. Brown is a former litigation partner at a large international law firm. She graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She...
by Keith Lee | Professional Development
As I noted a couple of days ago, Forbes recently published a ridiculous listicle of tasks to complete every morning. Do this, do that, run down the checklist. I ridiculed it because (a) it was drop-dead obvious things to do that people should have incorporated into...
by Keith Lee | Professional Development
In David Maister’s book, Managing the Professional Firm, he makes an observation that most professional firms fall into two categories: Farmers and Hunters. Farmers: …like [farm] communities, these firms deliberate about what crops to sow, arrive at a...
by Keith Lee | #data, Law School
Ok, last chart for awhile. I’m a lawyer, all this math is making my head hurt. I was speaking with someone yesterday regarding the decline in law school applications from top universities. She asked if I had numbers on colleges where the application rates to law...
by Keith Lee | #data, Legal News
As people seem to enjoy charts, here’s another one. What we have here is the number of lawyers in the United States (as per available data) contrasted with the population of the United States. While US population growth has been low (and dwindling) for decades,...
by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
If you spend any time around lawyers, you’ll realize very quickly that they love to tell war stories. Every lawyer has them. It’s often a competition to see who can better the other. “I was in a depo and the opposing counsel started making lewd...
by Keith Lee | #data, Law School
Since people seem interested in the trend of top university students avoiding law school, here it is in graph form as lawyers are bad with numbers. We’re audio-visual learners. Top University applications to law school plotted over five years. Not looking good....
by Keith Lee | Law School
Maybe they don’t like the job prospects? The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) regularly puts out data on law schools, students, applicants, etc. A poster over at JDU had some free time and made an observation today about law school applicants. 2008...
by Keith Lee | Professional Development
One of the great, unspoken realities of being a new lawyer that is never mentioned in law school is that you are going to screw up – badly. And then you’re going to have to explain it to your supervising attorney. You’re going to miss a deadline, not...
