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NE W S FROM THE FACULTY tigated the living conditions of unaccompanied children forcibly repatriated by the United States to Haiti; and acted as an accre d- ited foreign observer in Mexican federal and state elections. He is past president of the Coalition for Humane Im m i g r a n t s’ Rights of Los Angeles’ board of directors and a member of the Florida Immigrant Ad vocacy Center’s national advisory committee. Pro f e s s o r Fre n zen earned his juris doctorate from Dr a k e Un i versity Law School in 1985 and a bache l o r’s degree in French from Beloit College in 1 9 8 1 . Visiting Fa c u l t y Gillian K. Hadfield Gillian Ha d field joins the Law School as the Olin Fe l l ow in Law and Economics for the spring 2001 semester. A professor of law at the Un i versity of To ronto, Professor Ha d f i e l d’s re s e a rch and teaching interests include contract theory and law, theories of confli c t and dispute resolution and economics of legal institutions and organizations. Her re c e n t publications include “The Price of Law: How the Ma rket for Lawyers Di s t o rts the Ju s t i c e System,” published in the Michigan Law Re v i e w, Vol. 98 (2000), and “Changing the Path of the Law,” published in The Path of Law and its In flu e n c e(Cambridge Un i ve r s i t y Press, 2000). She is past president of the Canadian Law and Economics Association and a member of the Institute for Po l i c y A n a l y s i s’ board of advisers. Most re c e n t l y, she was the Olin Fe l l ow in Law and Economics at Cornell Law School. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from St a n f o rd Un i versity in 1990, a juris doctorate from St a n f o rd Law School in 1988 and a bachelor’s degree in economics f rom Qu e e n’s Un i versity in 1983. Law School Workshops July — December 2000 > Fa c u l t y Jody Armour Professor of law, US C “Adjudicating Just Deserts: Hidden Bias in Blame and Punishment” Pamela S. Karlan Professor of law, Stanford University “ The Irony of Immunity: The 11th Amendment, Irreparable Injury and Section 198 3 ” Robert C. Po s t Professor of law, University of California, Be r k e l e y “ The Uncertain Future of Federal Antidiscrimination Law: Morrison, Kimel and the Dismantling of Congressional Section Five Po w e r s ” Ariela J. Gro s s Professor of law, US C “Beyond Black and White: Cultural Approaches to Race and Slavery” W. David Slawson Professor of law, USC “ The Institutional Foundations of Contract Damages and the Thesis of Fuller and Pe r d u e ” A n d rei Marmor Professor of law, Tel Aviv University “Authority and Authorship” Phillippa Le v i n e Professor of history, US C “Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Ve n e r e a l Disease in the British Empire” H o w a rd A. Gillman Professor of political science, US C “ The Political Construction of Federal Judicial Po w e r in Late 19th-Century America” Peter H. Huang Visiting professor of law, US C “Reasons Within Passions: Emotions and Intentions in Property Rights Ba r g a i n i n g ” > Center for Communication Law and Po l i c y A n i ta Allen-C a s t e l l i t t o Professor of law, University of Pennsylvania “Privacy as Data Control: Conceptual, Practical and Moral Limits of the Paradigm” William “Terry” W. Fisher Professor of law, Harvard University “ Theories of Intellectual Property” Neil Neta n e l Professor of law, University of Te x a s “Market Hierarchy and Copyright in Our System of Free Expression” > Center for Law, History and Culture Martha M. Umphre y Professor of law, Amherst University “ L a w, Jurisprudence and Social Th o u g h t ” > Pacific Center Barbara M. Ko r s ch Professor of pediatrics, Childrens Hospital “ The Power Shift in the Doctor-Patient Relationship” C. Anderson Johnson Professor of preventative medicine, US C “ Transdisciplinary Health Research in Developing Nations: Culture and Ethics” Norman Arnheim Chair of biological sciences department, US C “ U n d e r s tanding the Human Variation: Th e Foundations of Forensic DNA Analysis” M i chael R. Cousineau Professor of public administration, US C “Effectiveness of Independent Health Consumer Services in a Legal Services Environment” Left to Right: > Niels Frenzen Gillian Hadfield
NE W S FROM THE LAW SCHOOL C a reer Services Update To p s y -Turvy Legal Market Af fects Job Searching and Hiring Pr o c e s s e s by Eden Ku s m i e r s k y D i r e c t o r, Career Services and Lisa Mead Assistant Dean, Career Services One of the most important issues facing the Law School’s students, graduates and legal e m p l oyers, both locally and nationally, is how the legal job market has been affected by the recent fluctuations in the economy. If you are not a recent law school graduate, you may be scratching your head and asking, “What is going on in the legal market?” In anticipation of this question, we in the career services office have been tracking recent trends. The legal market has been topsy-turvy during the past 14 months, and we have tried to make sense of the changes and turmoil that have characterized the legal market in recent months. The following are some of our observa t i o n s . Trends in 2000: The dot.coms and their legal needs played a significant role in the chaos of 2000. The dot.com demand for in-house and out-of-house counsel sky-rocketed — as did the stock value and the issuance of stock options to legal counsel (in-house and out-of-house). The booming economy of some business markets, such as Silicon Va l l e y, and an increase in the globalization of business prompted law firm expansions into new regions and countries. As the need for lawyers increased, law firms redoubled efforts to hire summer associates and n ew and lateral associates. Many national firms went to great lengths to re c ruit law students. Some substantially increased salaries — in some cases to as much as $165,000 to $170,000 for fir s t - year associates. Many adopted business-casual dress codes throughout the week, and some provided more personal services, including limousine service or commuting expense re i m- bursement, personal shoppers, on-site food, dry cleaning or masseuse serv i c e s . Trends in 2001: Tow a rd the end of 2000, we began to see the phrase dot.gone being used m o re fre q u e n t l y. The downturn in dot.com legal work, along with the general economic s l owd own, has created a much more competitive legal market for 2001. Many law firms are suffering from the sticker-shock of the 2000 salary wars and some have undergone mergers or acquisitions, significant partner movement, associate and partner layoffs or even office or firm closures. As a result, billable hours re q u i rements have increased to as much as 2,200 to 2,400 hours per ye a r. Many associates re p o rt experiencing a reduction in mentoring, training and time for pro bono work, and some say that law firm partnership seems either unattainable or not worth the effort. A number of firms, in an effort to be more cost-effective, are focusing on retention programs and lateral associate hiring; some firms are reducing their summer associate hiring. Sa l a ry increases seem to have had a broader impact as well. Some judges re p o rt a decrease in applications from students and graduates for externships and judicial clerkships, and many g overnment and public interest agencies and other legal employers re p o rt difficulty in re c ru i t i n g n ew attorneys. Legal services agencies and non-pro fits indicate that it is more difficult to seek donations or volunteer legal work from law firms, and tax consulting businesses have slowe d their hiring of law students and new lawyers because of the difficulty in competing with national law fir m s . While these are just a few of the trends that characterize the current legal market, they are making for interesting and unpredictable times for law students and lawyers and will continue to affect job searching, legal re c ruiting and legal practice in 2001. As we lead the Law School’s e f f o rts to pre p a re our students for this changing market, we may be contacting some of yo u to assist us with programs and workshops designed to educate and pre p a re our students for a successful transition into the pro f e s s i o n . USCLAW s p r i n g 2001 4 7
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