Legal Jobs: Part-Timers Declined in 2011 - Law Blog - WSJ

By Joe Palazzolo

The number of part-time lawyers dipped last year for the first time since National Association for Law Placement started compiling figures on the issue in 1994.

From a NALP news release:

In 2011, just 6.2% of lawyers were working part-time, compared with 6.4% in 2010, and most of them, over 70%, were women. This reflects the fact that women are much more likely to be working part-time than men. Among women lawyers overall, 13.4% work part-time; among female partners, 11.8% are working part-time; and among women associates the figure was 10.0%. This contrasts with a rate of just 2.7% among all male lawyers.

NALP?s findings drew on part-time ?information for 1,269 individual law offices and firms. Almost all ? 98% ? allowed part-time schedules, either as a policy or on a case-by-case basis.

In 1994, just 2.4% of partners and associates were working part-time.

h/t ABA Journal

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/01/19/legal-jobs-part-timers-declined-in-2011/

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