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Sun 10 Apr, 2005 06:54 pm
Greetings all. This post is for other attorneys in this forum who may have knowledge of the above legal market.
My spouse and I will be relocating later this year. One of the markets we are considering is Boston.
I'm targeting finding work as a lawyer in a practice with a small to mid-size firm, government agency or public interest group, in the following areas: bankruptcy; consumer protection; regulatory/litigation (consumer or credit markets).
I'm concerned of the impression that the market has many lawyers competing for only a few jobs, and that they may not be as receptive to out-of-towners.
Any input on the openness/closedness of the Boston legal market would be appreciated.
Well, you could always take my case :wink:
The Boston area is probably saturated with lawyers (like most large cities), so you would need something to make you really stand out.
I have three lawyer friends. One got a job pretty quickly, another it took him months, the other couldn't find anything and ended up becoming a school teacher.
From talking to one of them, last year the job market for lawyers here was terrible, very saturated. Not sure how it's changed since.
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