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Anyone wanna take a gander on how long it will take for the job prospects to pick up? How long is this employment slump gonna be?

Pick up to what levels? 2007?

Any levels that you think are "good" lol. Just your own opinions.

Anonymous User wrote:Any levels that you think are "good" lol. Just your own opinions.

disregarded this thread upon seeing "lol"

miamiman wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:Any levels that you think are "good" lol. Just your own opinions.

disregarded this thread upon seeing "lol"

lmao

in all seriousness though, i would imagine around 2 yrs.

The thing is, (im very familiar w/ the IP legal market,) firms and corps. dont want to pay out that 6 fig salary for some of their work that could be done by patent agents or paralegals. i talked to a few attorneys and they have kinda given the "general" impression that 2 patent agents paying @ like 80k each, is >>>> 1 attorney who they pay at 180k . more work w/ less pay = win for firm/corp.

Anonymous User wrote:Any levels that you think are "good" lol. Just your own opinions.

This post is a valuable use of the Anonymous feature.

Whats wrong with the post? How long will it take for the job market to look up for lawyers?

Anonymous User wrote:Whats wrong with the post? How long will it take for the job market to look up for lawyers?

it depends on what "look up" means and beyond that, no one knows

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lol. No wonder some people cant stand lawyers, talk about making this more complicated than necessary. As we have seen, although the markets are recovering faster than was predicted, the job market is not. The answer would be based on how soon employers in legal firms begin to gain more business, and also how much their confidence level increases. Really, the economy is fundamentally driven by confidence, so who knows what the answer is. This same problem is not specific to law anyways. Every industry is hurting, and its tough to find an occupation which is recession proof.

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