The best thing about the National Association of Law Placement (NALP) annual conference is that it gives you a very broad sense about where the legal industry is going. The law firm representatives there are thinking about what their needs will be, years down the line. The law school personnel are thinking about what their students are trained to do, and how they will need to be trained in the future. NALP can be a leading indicator, but it can also be a lagging indicator. The conference captures trends that have been in motion for some time, but that means that when “new” things happen, it can take this group of people a little bit of time to coalesce around the collective response.

This year was the year that #MeToo fully metastasized into the world of young lawyer recruitment. There were multiple panels addressing the issue of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct in the workplace, directly. But even panels that didn’t have a #MeToo hashtag in the title were also kinda talking about #MeToo issues. Everybody was aware of the issue.

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