Bridging the generation gap
Young lawyers adapt to the profession by understanding tradition.
New Lawyers
Articles
DTCI: Summer associates: Find your ‘Bill Wooden’ mentor
DTCI member Misha Rabinowitch reflects on his mentor, Bill Wooden.
What are lawyers’ pet peeves when it comes to legal writing?
In April, a Missouri attorney filed an eight-page motion seeking clarification of the opposing counsel’s pleading. Attorney Richard D. Crites criticized his opponent’s grammar, use of apostrophes, and lack of detail, writing in his motion that the pleading “is the worst example of pleading that Defendant’s attorney has ever witnessed or read.”
A century of Indiana lawyers
Patrick Myers Sullivan became one of the state’s newest attorneys this spring, and in doing so a fourth consecutive generation in his family entered the legal profession.
New lawyers face tough job market
In June, the National Association for Law Placement released key findings stating 2010 was the worst job market for law school graduates since the mid-1990s. For graduates whose employment was known, only 68.4 percent obtained jobs that required bar passage – the lowest number in that category since NALP began collecting data on law graduates in the early 1980s.
Letters to a new lawyer: Some general advice
Donald D. Doxsee gives advice in the first letter in an occasional series.
