Insights into Finding a Job
The following resources may prove very helpful in providing you with some much-needed insight into your job search....
Transitioning to Bankruptcy as Your Practice Area?
My firm's bankruptcy practice has been very busy recently and proposed that I transition to this work. What would this mean to my long-term career?
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Tell Your Story - The Unique Value Of The Functional Resume
THE FUNCTIONAL RESUME TELLS STORIES. It presents a lawyer's credentials under skill headings, rather than by the more conventional way of job task descriptions. It does this by illustrating these skil...
Legal Authority Can Get You Your Next Law Firm Job
Are you looking for the perfect law firm position? Legal Authority's database contains the hiring contacts of practically every law firm in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Updated hundreds of tim...
State of the market report
Now that it's 2008, it's not a day too soon for attorneys who want to make a move or move up in their career to act now. Most attorneys put off looking for work towards the end of the year because the...
The Practice of Law: To Stay or Go
Should I stay or should I go? I found myself asking this very question at a very early stage in my legal career. If you are reading this, I assume you are also pondering whether or not you should stay...
Choosing The Right Resume Style - How To Effectively Show - Case Your Strengths
A RESUME IS A MARKETING TOOL, not your life's story. Neither is it a ticket to a new job. A resume is merely a way of making you visible as a valuable asset to a law firm, corporation, or any other pr...
Q: Dear Legal Eagle,
What is the story with intellectual property law?
Signed . . .Future IP Attorney...
Practice Areas: Finding One That Fits
Just as you are unlikely to remain forever with the first firm you join, you may decide that the practice area you chose right out of law school no longer suits you. Changing practice areas can be a d...
Corporate Legal Work-The Perks and the Downside, the Ins and the Outs, and the Methods
For law students considering alternatives to firm practice, corporate counsel positions are often appealing. For years, in-house counsel often was not viewed as ''real'' lawyers or top-notch legal min...
