Legal Industry News
January 20, 2012
Part-time Work Among Lawyers Declined for First Time in 17 Years, NALP Study Finds
A study conducted by the National Association for Law Placement, Inc. (NALP) showed that most large law firms have made part-time schedules available to their experienced lawyers for many years.
But overall, the number of lawyers working part-time continues to be very small, and in fact the number edged down in 2011 for the first time since NALP began compiling these figures in 1994. 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…
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