Shpoonkle: Employment opportunity or ethical dilemma?

Image from Shpoonkle.com “Just because a lawyer can afford to buy a $10,000 billboard on the highway doesn’t make him a better lawyer,” said Robert Grant Niznik, the founder of an unusual online legal service. Perhaps even more unusual is the name. Spotlighted in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, Shpoonkle allows potential clients to post legal problems, and …

Law school grades not most important hiring criterion for firms

If you’re dead set on making great grades in law school to land a job, you’re overlooking something even more important. At least, that’s what the National Jurist magazine found when it polled hiring partners at mid-sized law firms across the country. The survey showed that the most important criterion when making a hiring decision was the candidate’s personality, or …