Change, Market

Are All Lawyers Screwed by AI? Actually No

  • On March 14, 2026
Anthropic analyzed which jobs AI impacts the most. (See here for summary.) The hardest hit jobs (where AI is already performing 67-75% of tasks): coders, customer service reps, data entry workers. The next hardest hit: financial analysts (AI does modeling and number-crunching well), office administrators (facing 90% theoretical exposure even if adoption is lagging), and […]
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Market

How hard is it to land a remote job?

  • On March 1, 2026
How hard is it to land a remote job?  Not impossible, but it’s getting harder, especially in law. WSJ reports the “remote work dream isn’t dead” but is “slipping away.” Why is it so difficult? The total job market is shrinking, and the portion of remote jobs has dropped to around 8% from a high […]
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Market

Making sense of mixed signals of the job market & California economy

  • On February 13, 2026
US January job numbers were surprisingly positive: unemployment remains low, and 131,000 jobs were added tothe market. But the New York Times explains these gains are mostly in healthcare and largely offset the previous year’s job cuts. In California, the Mercury News reported on mixed signals: On the plus side, California’s economy is valued at […]
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GC, Market

GC musical chairs

  • On January 10, 2026
Big GC moves this winter: Apple CLO Kate Adams announced she was retiring in December. Apple is replacing its CLO with Jennifer Newstead from Meta. Meta is replacing its CLO with CJ Mahoney, a VP from Microsoft. Former Microsoft CLO Hossein Nowbar, who left the company in the fall, joined ServiceNow this past week. Current […]
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Compensation, Market

Who is paying extraordinary comp in 2026?

  • On January 4, 2026
No surprise, it’s AI and OpenAI in particular. WSJ reports the company is “paying employees more than any tech startup in recent history” at $1.5M each in stock-based pay on average, which is 7x higher Google’s pre-IPO levels and 34x the average for 18 large tech companies over the last 25 years. It makes up […]
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Market, Networking

Best tactics in this job market

  • On September 13, 2025
It’s a weird market now. We are waiting on geopolitical stability, lower interest rates, and predictable tariffs and supply chains for a turnaround, which is a tall order! As a result “job seekers can’t rely on the usual tactics” per HR expert Morgan Williams. What should they be doing instead? Her article can be found […]
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Market

Job Market Deteriorating Now

  • On September 6, 2025
The job market is “deteriorating markedly” says WSJ. The “hot jobs market of the postpandemic years is over.” Some details: Because the economic outlook is “incredibly uncertain,” companies “are being very cautious about adding personnel” and “pulling back on hiring to keep profits healthy at a time of tepid demand.” The economy lost net 13,000 […]
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