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Free Resume Critique and Free Market Evaluation
Just fill out our Sign Up Form and we will contact you to set up an appointment to talk to you about your job search. We will interview you in depth over the phone to understand what type of legal employment you are seeking. If you would like, ask us for a resume critique, and we will provide you with suggestions to improve the impact and effectiveness of your resume. In addition, we will provide a market evaluation and give you an assessment of your overall marketability. This critique and market evaluation are absolutely free, and there is no obligation to continue. We are committed to helping you find a job, whether you decide to use our full services or not.
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At Legal Authority, we're so sure that our service is the right way to get attorneys jobs, we make the following promise: if you don't get a job within 90 days of using our service, we will give you up to 200 additional free contacts.
This applies to everyone. It doesn't matter what part of the country you're in or what level of experience you have. Legal Authority is simply the best way to move forward in your legal career.
Here's how it works: We put together a personalized search, print your custom resumes and cover letters, and deliver them to you for signing and mailing. If you don't get a job as a result of sending them out to employers within 90 days, simply contact us, and we will give you the same amount of contacts you purchased (up to 200... a value of up to $500) totally free of charge!*
It's that simple. Don't wait though: this offer expires 120 days after the day your letters are dated.
The risk is ours!
So why not try Legal Authority? We're so confident that our service will work for you, that we'll give you up to $500 worth of contacts for free if it does not. Become a member today, and experience the benefits.
*Applies to clients who signed up after September 1, 2005. The offer is valid only for clients who are U.S. licensed attorneys with no disciplinary record, or who are second- or third-year students at a law school in the United States of America. The Legal Authority 200 Free Contact Offer does not cover shipping fees. |
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Don't let your school control the recruiting process
Every law student in this country is familiar with Career Services. You have probably used them to look for either a summer associate position, or a law clerk position while you attended school, or even a post-graduation position after you had taken the bar exam but before your results arrived. Some students have achieved varying degrees of success, but most students have been left dissatisfied, frustrated, and, most important, jobless! If this describes your situation, Legal Authority exists to help students like you.
This article is not designed to bash Career Services or the job that they do. Rather, this article is meant to highlight the fact that while Career Services serves a function, that function is rather limited. One thing that law students are not aware of is the fact that Career Services Departments can only be effective for the top 10% of the class! Unfortunately, the other 90% of the class is left struggling to find positions. Legal Authority will assist that other 90% in finding the best jobs for them.
The primary purpose of this article is to make sure that you, the job seeker, are equipped with all the information you need to take control of your job search. We will look at Career Services in terms of what do they do and whom they help the most. Next, we will look at why it does not make sense for you to place your future in the hands of Career Services. And finally, we will lay out your plan of action and determine how you can take control of your job search!
Career Services: Who are they, and what do they do?
As noted above, every law student in this country will at one time or another visit his/her Career Services office for assistance with a job search. In the fall, most if not all Career Services offices organize some sort of on-campus-interviewing process. Many schools refer to it as fall OCI (on-campus interviewing). During this process, many large law firms go to various law schools and recruit law students up to one year in advance to begin their positions with these firms the following summer. Career Services will help law students draft resumes and cover letters for the available positions. In addition, they will help law students get their resumes to the hiring coordinators of the large firms.
Unfortunately, your decision to work for a firm that recruits on campus is not always in your control. First, firms are usually looking for the top students with the best grades, as well as journal/moot court participation. Second, you might be a student who is looking to move to a different geographic region for the summer, and firms from that region do not recruit on your campus. For the lucky few students who land their positions through this process, the hunt is over. However, for the majority of students, the job search is only beginning, and these students can no longer rely on their school's Career Services office.
Your Future in the Hands of Career Services???
Most students need to be proactive in their job searches and take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that they find the best jobs for them. If you are one of those students, Legal Authority can help you apply directly to almost any legal employer anywhere, including law firms, corporations, judges, public interest organizations, public defender's offices, prosecutor's offices, state and federal governmental agencies, law schools-you name it. With the largest database of legal employers anywhere, Legal Authority has contacts for more than two million legal employers in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. It is not unusual for our clients to get 10 or more offers. The limited resources of your law school's Career Services office simply are not designed to help you get such results.
When looking for a job as a 2L, 3L, or recent grad, it is important to note that the job that you take is critical and will set up the first stage of your legal career. Because your first job as a law clerk or a first-year associate is so important, the wisest job seekers do not leave their job searches in the hands of Career Services. They are great for helping students with the best grades land great positions. And you must remember that your Career Services office has every incentive to promote their best students in landing jobs with firms. This is primarily because it helps to increase the school's ranking and prestige in the legal community. Nevertheless, if you are not one of those select few, Career Services can leave you feeling hopeless.
Take Control of Your Job Search: Your Plan of Action
As you might have experienced, it is very difficult to land a summer associate position if you have not been recruited. It is not, however, impossible. To maximize your chances of getting a great position, you need to first maximize both the quality and quantity of the interviews and then maximize your interview efficiency. This is where Legal Authority makes all the difference. We will help you get your resume and cover letters out to great firms that are looking for someone just like you.
This opportunity is being utilized constantly by students and attorneys alike. Many 2Ls and 3Ls use targeted mailing as a way of getting around the nightmare of fall OCI, where only the top 10% of the class is offered job opportunities. The savviest students know that they can use Legal Authority to create their own fall OCI that is tailored to their needs and targeted to those employers that are not going to dismiss them simply because they are not first or second in their class. The service has helped numerous students from all over the United States bypass Career Services and take control of their job searches!
Remember, when you conduct a job search using Legal Authority, the purpose is not to find just any job. If you sit around long enough, you will find any job. The point of this search is to find the best job for you. You will sample all of the opportunities out there and find the job that is the best fit for you and your needs. No other job search allows that. If you find a job through an advertisement, then you are at the mercy of that employer, including whatever salary and workload it dictates. There is no opportunity to weigh several offers and negotiate the best deal. Targeted mailing affords you that opportunity. You future does not have to be governed by the lack of success during the on-campus-interviewing process. You can determine your career path and land a great position when you take the initiative with Legal Authority and take control of your job search.
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Bob Gerberg is one of the country's top job-hunting authorities. His books, seminars, and programs have been used by millions of people worldwide for one simple reason: Bob knows what he's talking about.
His works include The Professional Job Hunter's Guide, An Easier Way to Change Jobs, Sixty Great Letters Which Won New Jobs, and many others. He has also written dozens of articles, and he created The Career Advancement Series and other programs, both in print and on cassettes. His programs have helped professionals in many law firms, the U.S. government and military, major universities, and a multitude of Fortune 1000 companies.
Indeed, Bob knows what he's talking about. And he's been at it for more than 20 years; his concepts have clearly withstood the test of time.
So when Bob Gerberg says that 70% of your job search lies in marketing yourself, you can believe it.
Bob's quotation on our homepage says it all: Your success in finding the job of your dreams is 70% marketing. You can be a great attorney, but until you market yourself correctly, you'll be waiting behind your competition. And that's where Legal Authority comes in...to take care of that 70% for you!
Legal Authority does not wait for employers to post want ads in the newspaper or online. Instead, Legal Authority aggressively finds hiring contacts at some 2 million legal employers and puts you in direct contact with them. So that you can market yourself to them immediately...without waiting for their information to appear in a want ad.
Legal Authority is the natural extension of everything that experts like Bob Gerberg preach. You must market yourself, and Legal Authority is the industry's leading way to do so.
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Legal Authority: Is Every Client Happy?
Legal Authority has helped thousands of attorneys and law students find new opportunities and new careers throughout the country. While we can’t speak for each and every one of our clients, the growing list of customer testimonials is a proven track record of our success!
The reason is simple. Legal Authority is a convenient, inexpensive and reliable way to help jobseekers apply directly to almost any legal employer in the country. With a database that can not be offered by any other job boards, classified sections of legal newspapers, legal recruiters, on-campus interviewing programs, or job fairs, Legal Authority is able to give its clients the exposure they need to get hired. And it requires very little effort. Legal Authority does all the grunt work for you, from customized cover letters and envelopes to professionally crafted resumes. All you do is sign, seal and deliver. We’ve been told by our clients that the hardest part of the process was deciding between job offers!
It’s hard to guarantee the level of success that you will have in your job search, however, if it’s any indication of how people have felt about our service, our growth has come almost entirely from word of mouth in the legal profession. Legal Authority’s satisfied and happily employed clients have continuously referred us to their colleagues, friends and family. We hope you let Legal Authority work for you in your career journey.
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Our Writers
Legal Authority's writers are required to undergo an extensive examination and certification process, including a two-hour exam that tests their grammar, proofreading, and problem-solving skills, and a critical resume and cover letter re-writing session which puts their knowledge of resume and cover letter strategy, design, and creative wordplay to the test. Every client can rest assured that his or her resume is in the best hands when our writers are in control.
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Our Quality Guarantee
We guarantee that we will provide you with the most effective, comprehensive job search possible. If we haven't done our best to supply you with the ability to reach every potential employer in any given market, we will refund 100% of your money, less the membership fee. This is how confident we are that our services provide the best job search for attorneys, anywhere.
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| Terms of Membership |
By purchasing a Legal Authority membership and/or services (hereafter "Service") from us you acknowledge and agree to the following terms and conditions:
1. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service. The material on the Service is for the private, non-commercial use of members only. Any other use is prohibited.
2. You are responsible for notifying Legal Authority of any change in your mailing address, billing address, phone number or email address. Changing the information in the resume and cover letter documents is not sufficient to notify us of your change in address. Any errors in shipping due to your failure to notify Legal Authority will result in an additional shipping charge, determined at that time.
3. You agree not to use the Service to:
a. impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, another individual in search of a legal position;
b. upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
c. upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, publicity, privacy or other rights of any party;
d. upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; or
e. interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service.
4. You acknowledge and agree that Legal Authority may preserve your personal information and may also disclose this personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the terms of service; (c) respond to claims that any of this personal information violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Legal Authority, its clients and the public. Additionally, you acknowledge and agree that at any time Legal Authority may disclose other personal information as described in our website's then-current Privacy Policy, under the opt-out rules described therein.
5. Upon agreeing to purchase the Service, your credit card will be billed the entire amount in full. The amount will be determined by a conversation with a Legal Authority representative, and you will be informed of the total cost before the amount is charged. We will send you an email confirming the charge to your credit card and detailing the services you have purchased from us.
6. The Membership Fee of $195 is a one-time fee that entitles you to the no-additional-charge benefits that we provide to our members from time to time for as long as you wish. Your Membership Fee is nonrefundable.
7. While we make every effort to verify all publicly available information regarding the employers in our database, we do not warrant nor do we accept any responsibility for the accuracy of the information made available by employers regarding their businesses - including, among other things, information regarding their office locations, practice areas, number of employees and revenues and other financial information.
8. Returned mail policy. While we make every effort to keep the information in our database current, given the dynamic nature of the legal industry, employers move, merge, dissolve, etc., often at a rate faster than we can update our database. As such, you agree to allow us to correct returned letters and resend them to you in accordance with the procedures we implement from time to time. To the extent that we are unable to correct any returned letters we will refund to you the per-employer charge relating to those letters; provided that you have followed our procedures - which may, among other things, include our asking you to forward to us all returned letters (at no cost to you) within 180 days of the date of sale. If you choose not to follow our procedures for returned letters, we cannot provide you with a refund but instead will issue you a non-transferable credit toward future Legal Authority services equal to the aggregate per-employer charge relating to the returned letters; provided you forward to us all returned letters. Under no circumstances will we be responsible for (and under no circumstances will we issue a refund or credit for) correct letters that you decide (for whatever reason) not to send, or for letters returned to you not received By Legal Authority within 180 days of the date of sale. Under no circumstances will you be entitled to a refund or credit for any letters with correct contact information that fall within the scope of the search criteria that you provide to us. Letters that you do not send because they contain incorrect information will be handled in accordance with our returned letter procedures.
9. Cancellation of services. Should you wish to cancel purchased Legal Authority services at any time after purchasing the services but prior to uploading your documents and/or approving your documents for printing, you will be issued a non-transferable credit toward future Legal Authority services equal to your per-employer and other charges, excluding the Membership Fee. You will not be entitled to any refund or credit once you have approved your documents to be printed (even if we have not yet shipped them to you). All requests for cancellation must be in writing and directed to the attention of Legal Authority Customer Service.
10. Notices to you may be made via either email or regular mail. Legal Authority may also provide notices of changes to the Service or other matters by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on Legal Authority's website at www.legalauthority.com.
11. Legal Authority may provide its valued members the opportunity to register for account updates, news, and marketing information delivered via text messaging and other wireless devices such as mobile phones. In the event that Legal Authority offers these services, you may provide your consent to receive such information from Legal Authority either when registering or by contacting us at any time.
Members who register for any Legal Authority wireless marketing services acknowledge, understand and agree that they will likely be charged by the user's wireless carrier for all messages sent to the user from Legal Authority. Standard messaging rates will apply, unless noted otherwise. Under no circumstances will Legal Authority or any of its affiliates be responsible for any wireless email or text messaging charges incurred by a member or by a person that has access to a member’s wireless device, telephone number, or email address.
You hereby understand, acknowledge and agree that Legal Authority may, in its sole discretion and without liability to any member, terminate any specific wireless update services or all wireless update services at any time without advance notice. Legal Authority may provide notice of new services or termination or changes in services on this website.
12. You hereby warrant and represent that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age (21 in some jurisdictions) and have the legal capacity to enter into agreements of this nature.
13. This constitutes the entire agreement between you and Legal Authority and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Legal Authority. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software.
14. You agree that any and all disputes, controversies or claims arising under or in any way related to your relationship with Legal Authority, including fraud in the inducement, or relating to the general validity or enforceability of any of the provisions hereof, shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. If a dispute arises that is required to be adjudicated in court, you and Legal Authority agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Los Angeles, California.
15. The failure of Legal Authority to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms of service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the terms of service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the terms of service remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of Legal Authority or the terms of service that you may have must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
16. We may change these Terms of Membership at any time. You can review the most current version of these terms by clicking on the "Terms of Membership" hypertext link located at the bottom of the pages on our website. You are responsible for checking these terms periodically for changes. If you continue to use Legal Authority's services after we post changes to these Terms of Membership, you are signifying your acceptance of the new terms.
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