2020 has finally drawn to a close, and we hope the new year finds all of you happy and healthy.
To get a sense of how much the legal industry has changed over past the few years, one needs to follow the money. Or more to the point—the jobs. Journalist Rhys Dipshan quoted TRU founder and CEO Jared Coseglia to set the scene for this article in Legaltech News.
Check out this retrospective, wherein TRU CEO and founder Jared Coseglia looks back on the 2020 legal technology job market, detailing the events and trends that defined 2020. Don’t miss this insightful analysis and watch for TRU’s Top Ten 2021 Job Market Predictions in January!
For millennials or young attorneys getting their start out of law school, there are more career options scattered throughout the legal ecosystem than ever before. Whether it’s law firms, alternate legal service providers, in-house legal departments, the Big Four or even a legal tech company, fresh-faced law talent has its pick of options when charting a career path. Frank Ready checked in with TRU's Jared Coseglia for his take in this article for Legaltech News.
Jared Coseglia quoted in Legaltech News
Corporate legal departments have often relied on outside counsel to help navigate an increasingly complicated landscape of global privacy laws. But as updates like California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 continue to roll in, companies may find it more cost effective to engage the services of contract workers or even long-term hires. Legaltech News reporter Frank Ready asked TRU's Jared Coseglia for his input.
Jared Coseglia quoted in Legaltech News
In Q3 2020, the job market got hot again. Yes! But—what “hot” was a year ago and what “hot” is today look very, very different.
This quarter’s TRU Newsletter will help you reflect on and redirect your hiring and job search strategies in a now functioning post-pandemic outbreak job market. Clear trends, like the explosion of contract, contract-to-hire, and work-from-home employment opportunities are observed and analyzed in much, if not all of our Q3 content.
Thanks to changes in the industry, lawyers are filling more new and different types of “alternative legal” jobs than ever. But those jobs have taken a hit in this downturn and may be difficult to find, when compared to the apparent boom times of 2019. Despite this, there are still opportunities for lawyers willing to go outside of traditional practice in areas including e-discovery, legal operations, project management, compliance and privacy. Bloomberg Law turned to TRU's Jared Coseglia for his unique perspective on the legal tech job market.
Jared Coseglia quoted in Bloomberg Law
Going into the fall, in-house legal may continue to see a large number of applicants vying for a limited number of jobs. However, alternative legal service providers may begin to woo a significant portion of that talent pool away. Writer Frank Ready turned to TRU's Jared Coseglia for input.
Jared Coseglia quoted in Corporate Counsel
While new alternative legal service providers (ALSPs), or those that have launched a new service, are fast building up their contract teams, most established ALSPs aren't in a rush to add contract tech experts to their staff. Victoria Hudgins of Legaltech News asked for TRU's Jared Coseglia to weigh in with his deep market knowledge.
Jared Coseglia quoted in Legaltech News