{"id":1854,"date":"2020-01-28T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/chris-batz-owner-of-the-lion-group-featured-in-legal-management\/"},"modified":"2020-01-28T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:14:00","slug":"chris-batz-owner-of-the-lion-group-featured-in-legal-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/chris-batz-owner-of-the-lion-group-featured-in-legal-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Batz, Owner of The Lion Group, Featured in Legal Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Batz, Owner of The Lion Group \u2013 A member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanfordrose.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae<\/a> network of offices, Featured in Legal Management, Giving Back to the Future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plano, TX 1\/28\/2020<\/p>\n<p>By: Erin Brereton<\/p>\n<p>Some industry members are trying to convince young adults to consider a legal career \u2014 and finding it can have an unexpected effect on fulfilling staffing and other needs.<\/p>\n<p>After 14 years of approximately 40,000 to 44,000 new students enrolling each year, the number of prospective industry members entering U.S. law schools spiked to more than 52,000 in 2010 \u2014 and then promptly declined by more than 4,000 in 2011 and kept falling until 2016, when enrollment marginally increased by just nine students, according to the nonprofit Law School Transparency organization\u2019s analysis of ABA data. Although the numbers have continued to rise incrementally since, in 2018, 38,392 first-year students started law school, which is still fewer than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of recent declines, there\u2019s currently an emphasis on increasing diversity within the profession, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/liongrouprecruiting.com\/?team=chris-batz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Batz<\/a>, Owner and Recruiting Manager at <a href=\"https:\/\/liongrouprecruiting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Lion Group LLC<\/a> legal recruiting firm.\u201c Six years ago, there definitely was a concern and a real drop in enrollment in law schools,\u201d Batz says. \u201cIt\u2019s behooves the law schools to [recruit more industry members]. They\u2019re hearing from firms, \u2018We need more women, more diversity and multicultural JDs coming from law school.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalmanagement.org\/2020\/january\/features\/giving-back-to-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.legalmanagement.org\/2020\/january\/features\/giving-back-to-the-future<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Chris Batz, Owner of The Lion Group \u2013 A member of the Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae network of offices, Featured in Legal Management, Giving Back to the Future Plano, TX 1\/28\/2020 By: Erin Brereton Some industry members are trying to convince young adults to consider a legal career \u2014 and finding it can have an unexpected effect on fulfilling staffing and other needs. After 14 years of approximately 40,000 to 44,000 new students enrolling each year, the number of prospective industry members entering U.S. law schools spiked to more than 52,000 in 2010 \u2014 and then promptly declined by more than 4,000 in 2011 and kept falling until 2016, when enrollment marginally increased by just nine students, according to the nonprofit Law School Transparency organization\u2019s analysis of ABA data. Although the numbers have continued to rise incrementally since, in 2018, 38,392 first-year students started law school, which is still fewer than a decade ago. As a result of recent declines, there\u2019s currently an emphasis on increasing diversity within the profession, according to Chris Batz, Owner and Recruiting Manager at the Lion Group LLC legal recruiting firm.\u201c Six years ago, there definitely was a concern and a real drop in enrollment in law schools,\u201d Batz says. \u201cIt\u2019s behooves the law schools to [recruit more industry members]. They\u2019re hearing from firms, \u2018We need more women, more diversity and multicultural JDs coming from law school.\u2019\u201d Read full article here: https:\/\/www.legalmanagement.org\/2020\/january\/features\/giving-back-to-the-future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[719,720,721,722,723,233,724],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sra-news","tag-chris-batz","tag-chris-batz-executive-search","tag-chris-batz-kansas-city-missouri","tag-chris-batz-recruiter","tag-chris-batz-the-lion-group","tag-sra-recruiter","tag-the-lion-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chris Batz, Owner of The Lion Group, Featured in Legal Management - Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae - 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