The Bank Crisis: Where Not to Job Hunt…But?

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…

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Legal Job Implications of House-Passed Legislation

This Future Interests blog takes the recent barrage of media speculation concerning the fate of the 290 bills passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, but not yet acted upon by the U.S. Senate, one step further.  It examines the legal and law-related employment implications of these bills, should the Senate ever resolve or set aside its healthcare reform obsession long enough to act on them.

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Careers in the Sustainable World VII: The Rest of the Story

This final blog in the Sustainable World Careers series examines the state of the rest of the possible renewable energy sources being talked about and their legal hiring potential.  I have "bundled" them because, at their current developmental stage, they are not making nearly as big an impact as "The Big Six" – oil, natural gas, coal, solar, wind and nuclear.

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