Interesting study Here that has a list of the areas with the highest per capita percentage of lawyers practicing there. In other words, stay away from D.C. and New York, and start your job search in North Dakota and Arkansas! The list is pretty much what one would expect, considering there are, how many law schools now in NY? It's getting dangerously close to a double digit number. And everyone that doesn't want to work in NYC seems to want to work in D.C. Meanwhile, I can't imagine too many people are clamoring to work in ND, what with it's vast network of high-paying corporate jobs and all....
Does this list make you think twice about future job prospects?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Stay Away From These States
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I think the lawyers per capita ignores that NYC lawyers probably represent way more firms/business than the Dakota ones. The lawyer per capita rate just means more people are employed, not necessarily that your job prospects are worse.
I have some misgivings about using the lawyers per capita number as a stand in for how competitive a market is. While I have no doubt that the NYC market is utterly saturated, I also believe that it has more legal jobs (both high and low paying) per capita than North Dakota or Arkansas.
I think that this is somewhat akin to telling someone that since Silicon Valley has a higher number of software developers per capita than Flint, MI, they should look at Flint for employment in the computer industry.
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