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According to ChatGPT (link not available) based on Labor Department's tentative figures for July 2025, there's been a surge in job creation in legal services.  Last month, there were 4,000 new jobs. Overall, total employment increased 3.6% in July, from June. Yet, on professional anonymous networks Reddit Big Law and Fishbowl Big Law there is plenty of junior lawyer angst about job security. In addition, the in-house market has gotten tighter.  Of course, no one really knows the future of employment in the legal sector.   Gen AI, for example, is a wild card. It could eliminate positions at all levels of expertise. It also could create new kinds of jobs such as the lawyer who adds on advanced expertise in Gen AI and becomes a staff member.  That's the new career path of lawyer Kyle Bahr at Cleary.  Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp indicated the firm will be hiring data scientists and technologists. They, he said, would be overseen by lawyers. However, will so...

  Predictably, the Trump administration's latest moves on tariffs have unhinged global markets. Here in the US futures are down 400 points . As the day goes on, the actual operation of the Dow can represent a meltdown.  That leaves Boomers accelerating the angst about outliving their money.  Meanwhile, it has become more difficult for those over-65 to acquire added income through paid work.  Actually, so difficult is landing even gigs is that I, as a coach, I have stopped accepting as clients those who have decided to "unretire" in the traditional way: that is, looking for a job or gig.   Plans to journey back to laboring for income as a contract worker or employee, after a time-out, has morphed into a kind of a fantasy.  Most haven't kept up with the fast-changing technology.  What AI apps do they have down cold?  Ability to navigate the interviewing process has atrophied. Plus they would have to understand what the AI screeners for intervi...