A Law Employment Blog To Assist With Your Career Goals
March 9, 2010 This Future Interests blog is the first in a series that examines legal job and career opportunities created by the "aging up" of the 78-million strong Baby Boom generation, the largest age wave in U.S. history. The first age wave career we will examine is representing Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) claimants.
March 5, 2010 Over 50 percent of my legal career transition counseling clients were litigators who had had enough of litigation. They did not want to do it anymore, but were at a loss as to where they could go and what they could do instead. They were stunned to discover the many interesting – and much less stressful – options open to them.
March 2, 2010 Twenty-two U.S. banks failed in the first 57 days of 2010. The failure rate is very close to the pace of the 142 bank failures we witnessed in 2009. When a bank fails, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) takes over the institution, then attempts to persuade another (presumably) solvent bank to assume all or most of the deposits of the failed bank. Invariably, the employees of the bank that collapsed lose their jobs. This includes the bank's legal staff. However…