Do you think that lawyers will be in demand for the next 20 years or there are too many lawyers??
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No Lawyers will always be in demand. For as long as we have laws.
Yes and yes.
the question you have to ask youself is what type of lawyer will be in demand for the next twenty years
I would try to tap into the aging baby boomer poplulation, perhaps a lawyer that deals with peoples wills, there are going to be a lot of people dying in the next 20 - 50 years
Yes Virginia Lawyers will be in demand and Yes there are more lawyers than pigeons.
Employment of lawyers is expected to grow about as fast as average,, 9 - 17%, for all occupations through 2014, primarily as a result of growth in the population and in the general level of business activities. Job growth among lawyers also will result from increasing demand for legal services in such areas as health care, intellectual property, venture capital, energy, elder, antitrust, and environmental law. In addition, the wider availability and affordability of legal clinics should result in increased use of legal services by middle-income people. However, growth in demand for lawyers will be limited as businesses, in an effort to reduce costs, increasingly use large accounting firms and paralegals to perform some of the same functions that lawyers do. For example, accounting firms may provide employee-benefit counseling, process documents, or handle various other services previously performed by a law firm. Also, mediation and dispute resolution increasingly are being used as alternatives to litigation. Court reporters and legal secretaries will be in demand, along with police officers.
Competition for job openings should continue to be keen because of the large number of students graduating from law school each year. Graduates with superior academic records from highly regarded law schools will have the best job opportunities. AS a result of competition for attorney positions, lawyers are increasingly finding work in nontraditional areas for which legal training is an asset, but not normally a requirement—i.e. administrative, managerial, and business positions in banks, insurance firms, real estate companies, government agencies, and other organizations. Employment opportunities are expected to continue to arise in these organizations at a growing rate.
try this first:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm#outlo.
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