How to Find Employment Data for Small Law? Forum

[jwinaz]

How do you guys find employment data - stuff like salaries and number of workers per firm ,etc. - for small law?

I've seen people paste data for biglaw a lot, but what about small law sources? Anyone know of any? Thank you very much.

[cinephile]

Because there a millions of small firms and each one is different?

[A. Nony Mouse]

You probably don't find this data, not in the form you're hoping. Something fairly laborious you could try is going to martindale.com, searching law firms in a given area by size, and looking at what you find. It's not going to have salary information, but you can find a little more info about number of employees and practice area. Not super useful, but I don't know of anything else.

[BruceWayne]

Because there a millions of small firms and each one is different?

This is written like it's supposed to be sarcasm but--yeah actually there are and they are?

[cinephile]

Because there a millions of small firms and each one is different?

This is written like it's supposed to be sarcasm but--yeah actually there are and they are?

I meant it sincerely. Sometimes I think I don't express myself too well.

[jwinaz]

lol. I didn't take it that way. Was just taking the literal/common sense reading that small law is just really hard to track and get statistical data for. No worries.

I wish we did have very detailed and comprehensive data for it though. Feels like a bit of a blackhole out there for law. That and the unreported jobs/salaries of law grads.

Thanks anyways folks.