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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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"The most common means of obtaining a job was a letter or other "self-initiated contact" with the employer..."
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What Our Clients Are Saying
THANKS so much! You guys did a great job and I can't wait to send my cover letter and resume out. Thanks again!
- L.K., Jackson Beach,
I will recommend your service should the opportunity arise; customer service and product were above average. I would recommend the service if for no other reason but to tune-up the resume and cover letter. As for results, things are ongoing. The market is tough and my situation is a bit unique to boot. Of the 200+ firms to whom I wrote, two have contacted me for interviews. About one 35% of the firms wrote regret letters.
- Mario
I just graduated from Brooklyn Law School and I want to thank you for helping me through the job search process. So far I have two interviews, I will let you know how they go.
- C.B.
I can't believe it. I found a job even before the results of my Bar Exam were final. All of my friends have yet to find something, but I will tell them about you guys (now that I'm employed, they won't be competition!)
- Phil K.
Legal Authority and their services were extremely helpful to me in finding a job as an associate with a terrific law firm. Their staff is very helpful and the services they provide would take a person months to do on their own. They were worth every penny. The leads generated by Legal Authority's mailing campaign led directly to me finding my current employer. Specifically, I would like to thank Caroline Lee who was a tremendous help and source for advice during the entire job searching process. She really went above and beyond my expectations to help me along the way.
- R.S.
Thanks to the mailings, I got 6 interviews and 4 offers and I'm still hearing from firms asking for more credentials and interviews. It took some time working with the writer to get the perfect cover letter, but within days of dropping in the mail 500+ letters to San Francisco and Sacramento firms, I began getting calls and emails for interviews.
Chosing two legal markets paid off for me because my first choice city was much less responsive. Within about 7 weeks from dropping the letters in the mail, I accepted an offer from a SF firm where I will be earning more money than I had anticipated.
One hiring partner pointed to the strength of my cover letter in deciding to call me in for an interview, despite his aversion to hiring recent graduates. At least two of the firms that made offers weren't officially hiring.
I almost did not use Legal Authority because I did not have the money for it, and my career services advisor frowned upon large, direct mailings. But the deferred payment option and the prospect of writing hundreds of cover letters while studying for the bar convinced me to try it. The service yielded results I could not get with on-campus interviewing, my advisor's help, or my own small-scale efforts. I would certainly use Legal Authority again, and have recommended it to some of my classmates still looking for jobs out of law school.
- T.T.
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A Small Investment in Your Future
Legal Authority is your personal full-services marketing partner, dedicated exclusively to your job search. We take your desire to advance your legal career and create a thoroughly researched and comprehensively executed marketing plan to help secure the life-changing career move you seek.
Just as successful companies retain specialized marketing agencies to advertise and promote new products, we do the same for your search for an attorney position. The product is you. For the most profitable job results, you need to market yourself to the fullest extent possible.
 Searching for the best attorney position on your own can be overwhelming. Even if you are successful in your search on your own, can you be certain that you reached every opportunity available? Was there a better offer, a better match for your goals that may have eluded you? The more organizations you reach, the more choices you will have.
We help you reach more real opportunities than any other resource available. We take your job search from start to finish and deliver the best comprehensive, custom-designed career marketing program available.
We understand that your time is valuable. You could try to apply on your own to every legal employer in a given area matching your interests. However, this could take you weeks or months, all while you're trying to hold down a full-time job! Because thousands of attorneys use our service each year, we are confident that the scope of our service is something that would be next to impossible for you to duplicate on your own. Many have tried and done so without success, only to return to Legal Authority months later.
At Legal Authority, we help you market yourself better, faster, and more efficiently than you ever could on your own, while keeping the cost very reasonable. You benefit from our commitment to providing the very best in employer contact research and the efficient, expedient course of action we take. There is no comparison to the level of service we provide. Legal Authority is only a small investment in what can be a very profitable and life-changing career move. Considering that some attorneys make more in a day than we charge for our complete services, it's clear that Legal Authority is a tremendous bargain.
Resume Critique and Market Evaluation
Simply fill out our sign-up form, and we will schedule an appointment to speak with you at a time of your choosing. We will interview you in depth over the phone to determine exactly what type of position you are seeking. We will critique your current resume and provide you with suggestions for how to improve its impact and effectiveness. We will also provide a market evaluation for your practice area and location and discuss your overall marketability as a candidate. This initial critique and market evaluation is absolutely free, and there is no obligation to continue. We are committed to helping you find a job whether or not you decide to use our full services.
Membership Fee
At Legal Authority, you're not just a customer, you're a member. Our one-time, nonrefundable membership fee represents our commitment to help you throughout your career. From the time you become a member until the day you retire, you will have unlimited access to your employment advocate. He or she will be available to advise you on all your future job searches, as well as interviews and job offers -- even if you did not use our service to secure them.
Your membership also includes the strategic planning of all the targeted-mail campaigns that you choose to undertake with us. When you become a member of Legal Authority, you are entitled to unlimited database searches throughout your career.
FREE SERVICE FROM ATTORNEY RESUME
Perhaps the best part of your membership is the resume and cover letter service we provide...for free! As a Legal Authority member, you will have the free services of Attorney Resume, the world's leading authority on creating and revising resumes for lawyers, for two years. That is twice as long as the standard Attorney Resume offer! Attorney Resume's writers are professional experts who specialize only in legal resumes; it's all they do. We are proud of our partnership with Attorney Resume, and you'll be satisfied with their services ... guaranteed. Your resume and cover letter are not complete until you are 100% satisfied with them. Attorney Resume charges upwards of $500 for their services, and we will give you these services ABSOLUTELY FREE upon your paid membership to Legal Authority.
In addition, being a member means you'll get regular updates from us about the state of the market, job search tips, and legal news. Even better, membership entitles you to a free copy of all our print publications, including helpful guides and how-to manuals.
All Legal Authority members enjoy the following benefits:
- Free resume and cover letter writing and revision(s) by Attorney Resume, the world leader in crafting expert resumes for attorneys, for two years. Working with attorneys is all they do.
- Continuing career consultation with an Attorney Employment Advocate.
- Comprehensive targeted-mailing strategy and design.
- Unlimited database searches as part of your career consultations.
- Pre- and post-interview counseling.
- Campaign response tracking.
- Free copies of all our publications.
- Regular, helpful updates.
- Click here to read more about the benefits of Legal Authority membership.
Per Employer Charge
Headhunters can charge employers $25,000 or more for introducing you to a law firm, and Monster.com and other job-posting sites can charge more than $400.00 for a single classified listing! While some firms and companies are willing to pay these fees to find their attorneys, many seek more cost-effective solutions. In fact, thousands of Legal Authority members practicing at top firms throughout the world have tried numerous other methods to locate employment before contacting us. We are, quite simply, the most effective method for an attorney to locate employment in the world today.
The Per Employer Charge covers the work we do to write and polish your custom resume and cover letter. It covers the hours that our staff spends going over these documents to ensure that they will make the maximum impact with any potential employer. It also covers the task of going through your data line by line, ensuring that the employer addresses and contact information that we provide you with is current. And it also covers any corrections that we gladly make to this data if an employer has moved, dissolved, or merged.
The Per Employer Charge then covers the production cost for each firm and organization for which we prepare your resume, cover letter, and corresponding envelope for targeted mailing. Charges are dependent on the scope of your campaign and decrease with greater volume and cover the printing and packaging charges for your completed product. You may request additional contacts at any time.
The Per Employer Charge includes
- An identification of targeted hiring organizations and research into the hiring contacts within each organization
- A custom resume and cover letter prepared especially for you
- A line-by-line analysis of your search data to ensure that you get the best mailing we can offer
- Production and printing of a complete marketing package, including resumes, envelopes, and cover letters on high-quality cotton bond paper
- End-to-end package distribution and monitoring
- A list of the specific individuals and their phone numbers inside of each hiring organization you are contacting for follow-up
- Corrections for any returned mail you may receive
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*Plus shipping and handling
We ship your completed letters to you for your signature, postage, and local postmark. Mailing should originate from your home location.
Alternatively, if you are unable to sign, stamp, and mail your documents, or if you prefer to have us provide this service for you (as many of our international clients do) we can add a charge of $1.25 per contact for this service.
Deduct Our Services!
You may be able to claim all of your job-search expenses, including costs related to the preparation of resumes and cover letters, as itemized deductions.
According to the Internal Revenue Service, job-search expenses are deductions that are subject to a limit which equals 2% of your adjusted gross income. You can deduct certain expenses you have in looking for a new job in your present occupation, even if you do not get a new job. You cannot deduct these expenses if:
- You are looking for a job in a new occupation,
- There was a substantial break between the ending of your last job and you're looking for a new one, or
- You are looking for a job for the first time.
Employment and outplacement agency fees. You can deduct employment and outplacement agency fees you pay in looking for a new job in your present occupation.
Resume. You can deduct amounts you spend for typing, printing, and mailing copies of a resume to prospective employers if you are looking for a new job in your present occupation.
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