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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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What Our Clients Are Saying
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 am a former actress and recent law grad and I really felt I had a tricky situation on presenting myself, due to the fact that I am older and have the whole prior acting career which I thought might make me look flighty. However from my 400 submissions I have gotten called for three interviews (so far) so I think you put the right spin on it and it is coming across as an asset (which I believe it is!). Thanks!
- Julie
It has been a long time! I don't know if you remember me, but I signed up with you back in August 2002, before I even had bar results. Well, I failed the July 2002 Bar, but I passed in February 2003. I did get good results from your service in the end. I got about 5 callbacks from the initial mailing I did with your organization in 2002. I was successful in getting a job with a solo practitioner in San Francisco. However, to my surprise, I got a call in February of 2003, from one of the resumes I sent out with you, and got a new job in March 2003. Initially I was hired by [firm] as a contract paralegal, and then when I got my passing results on the CA bar in June I was upgraded to contract attorney. The reason I am contacting you is that having passed the Florida Bar, I am now interested in moving to Florida, and would like to discuss a job search there with you.
Sincerely,
Murray P.S. I have recommended your service to a number of friends, and to the career services office director at Boalt Hall.
I did a NYC search in environmental/energy and got several offers in the $100K+ range. I am of course thrilled and I have recommended Legal Authority to my classmates. I told my buddy that he WILL get a job if he uses you. Another satisfied customer!
- Brian
I have a new address because I have gotten a new job. For that, I wish to extend my appreciation for all the help and hard work you and your staff put into this project. I could not have done it without you. Should the need arise, rest assured that I will be contacting your firm for your assistance once again. Again, thank you.
Best Regards,
- Huge
When a cover letter and resume are submitted to Legal Authority, a great deal of time and effort goes into creating a finished product. The professional writers critiqued and updated my resume and cover letter, and they created an improved the style and layout. This process, along with the excellent database, served me well at Legal Authority.
- Fredrick W.
Legal Authority takes the work you're not comfortable with out of your way and gives it back to you in a precise and correct form. It's something that would have taken a lot of effort, and also having it done professionally gives you peace of mind.
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| What We Do For You |
We Get More Attorneys and Law Students Jobs than Any Other Source
Once you become a member of Legal Authority, you join a community of law students and attorneys who know that properly marketing themselves is the best investment they can make in their careers. We have assisted numerous law students, as well as attorneys commanding salaries in excess of $1 million per year, land their next jobs. We have assisted attorneys and law students from every American law school, and the attorneys we have assisted are working at thousands of law firms and corporations throughout the United States. In fact, if you are currently employed, the chances are good that attorneys within your own organization obtained their jobs using our service.
The Short Story
The methods we employ to get you the job you want are inexpensive, quick, and effective. If today is like any other day, hundreds of attorneys throughout the United States will be interviewing for jobs, thanks to Legal Authority. No other company in the world can say this. Make no mistake about it: Legal Authority is the best possible way to get a legal job.
After interviewing with one of our employment advocates and describing precisely what you want to do, we consult with you to provide a target list of legal employers. Using our database, we provide you with customized letters, envelopes, and resumes for application to legal jobs, in every area of practice, in every city and every country any legal professional could ever want to work—whether you are interested in one employer or a thousand employers. Whether you want to go in-house, to a law firm, to a public interest organization, to work for the federal or state government, or you seek to be a prosecutor, a court clerk, or even a law professor, we can help you find the perfect employer.
Using the world's most sophisticated database of legal employers, we enhance attorneys' lives by penetrating markets on their behalf to get them the exposure to employers that they need. No recruiters, no job-posting boards, and no classified ads can do what we do. The beauty of what we do is that we put you in control of your own destiny.
According to Bob Gerber, the author of An Easier Way to Change Jobs, "Job hunting success depends 70% on marketing and interviews and 30% on background and ability." This translates into knowing where to direct your mailing, mailing sufficient volume to achieve your desired results, and having a stellar cover letter and resume. Even the National Association of Law Placement is clear that most attorneys obtain jobs by directly contacting employers who are not soliciting applications.
With facilities in both the United States and abroad, Legal Authority operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, updating information about legal employers throughout the world. You would be surprised at the number of law students, practicing attorneys, and legal professionals who use our service. They do so because it works. Our service is extremely effective due to the fact that very few legal employers ever advertise positions, most headhunters and job posting boards have a limited number of positions, and we are the only ones with the complete resources to help legal professionals find any employer they want.
The Long Story
About Our Database
Legal Authority's database contains more hiring department contacts than any other in the world — more than 750,000 legal employers. This includes virtually every law firm, corporation, city, county, judge, public interest organization, prosecutor, public defender, law school, association, embassy, representative, congressman, or other organization in the United States that employs legal professionals. Our database is maintained 24 hours a day by a staff of more than 50 dedicated legal researchers working all over the world. On a daily basis, we add or modify more than 1,500 hiring contacts by calling, researching, and consulting hundreds of printed and online sources. Once we have the data in our database, a staff of sophisticated programmers and editors pores over this data, analyzing it for accuracy. In fact, Legal Authority has developed numerous sophisticated proprietary software products that have placed us at the forefront of the data analysis industry.
Our Relationship with You
A relationship with Legal Authority generally follows these processes:
Step One: Initial Contact
Call us at our toll-free phone number, 800-283-3860, or fill out our online Sign Up form. This communication with Legal Authority, as well as all future communications with Legal Authority, will remain totally confidential. If you fill out our online form, we will contact you within the same business day (if possible) via the phone number you provide to answer questions and to discuss options. If you call us directly, we can assist you immediately. Other people prefer to meet with a Legal Authority Employment Advocate personally.
Step Two: Free Resume Critique and Market Evaluation
One our Employment Advocates, which all have experience in the legal industry will interview you in depth to understand what type of legal employment you seek. Each of our Employment Advocates is well educated about the legal market and can assist you in making decisions about the appropriate number of employers to contact. This evaluation will be made based on your practice area, your region of the United States, and the strength of your background.
About Our Employment Advocates
On a typical day, at least three to four attorneys find new jobs through the efforts of our Employment Advocates. The Employment Advocate you speak with is someone who typically helps more than 1,000 attorneys and law students find jobs each year. Our Employment Advocates know the market extremely well and are focused on finding you suitable employment at the least possible cost and in the smallest possible timeframe. We are proud of our Employment Advocates because each of them individually gets more attorneys jobs than any fully-staffed legal recruiting firm in the world. The significance of this statement cannot be overemphasized and speaks volumes of their skill and the strength of our methodology in getting attorneys and law students jobs. In addition, each Employment Advocate is more than happy to provide a resume critique and to provide you with suggestions to improve the impact and effectiveness of your resume. Just ask us—we are committed to helping you find a job, whether or not you use our full services. We will also provide a market evaluation and give you an assessment of your overall marketability. The critique and market evaluation are absolutely free, and require no obligation to continue to the application material preparation stage.
Step Three: Preparing Application Materials
After an interview with one of our Employment Advocates, you will be given the choice to join the thousands of other law students and attorneys who are proud Legal Authority clients. If you choose to use our services, you will work with one of our skilled resume and cover letter writers to ensure that the materials you send to potential employers best reflect your skills, talents, and interests. Unlike other services that charge hundreds of dollars to create a resume and cover letter without your input that you may end up disliking, you are guaranteed to be satisfied with our versions because we will keep working on them until you say they are perfect. In addition, all of our writers are professionals who are extensively trained in the art of legal resume and cover letter writing. Too many of our clients come to Legal Authority after having spent money on resume preparation services that extend to every career. Legal resumes are unique, and preparing them requires a unique expertise and knowledge.
Once you are satisfied with the finished materials, we prepare cover letters, resumes, and envelopes for the number of legal employers you specify. The cover letters are addressed to the hiring authority or department for each legal employer you approach. Every one of your letters will be addressed to someone we have determined is a hiring contact within that office.
Legal Authority will then print your resumes, cover letters, and high-quality envelopes. Because you are applying for jobs—not us—we want you to sign each cover letter we prepare on your behalf.
The cost is up to you, and it depends on how extensive you want your job search to be. There are no hidden charges. We charge a Membership Fee that you will only have to pay once throughout your career. The Membership Fee allows us to continually update and expand our sophisticated database and also covers the costs of our research time. The fee allows you to come back and use us again if the need arises without paying additional start-up charges. Many attorneys have successfully used Legal Authority several times throughout their careers.
The only other charge is a fee that covers our data and production costs for every employer for whom we prepare resumes, cover letters, and envelopes. This charge decreases as the volume of your search increases. When you consider that each employer you contact will have an individual cost of less than the price of a cup of coffee at Starbucks, you can see that our service is worth every penny.
Step Four: Distribution Logistics
Once we have produced your job-search package, your cover letters, resumes, and envelopes are assembled, packaged, and sent to you to sign and then mail with your local postmark. We also provide you with a list of the individuals you are contacting as well as their phone numbers so you can follow up (if you so choose) with these individuals after your application materials are sent.
Confidentiality is a serious concern for any job seeker. That's why you will do the mailing of the actual letters which we will deliver to you ready for your signature and a stamp. Accordingly, you will never be contacting a firm you do not want to contact—or worse—your own firm. We will provide you with the contacts, and you can run your job search with the advice, letters, resumes, and envelopes we prepare on your behalf.
Step Five: Follow Up
Once the mailing has been sent out, remember — you are still a Legal Authority client. We are here to help you throughout your career. Your Employment Advocate can answer all your questions or concerns about the interviewing process or starting your new job, and we're always happy to hear about your successes. If you decide you need to expand your initial search, we will be here to assist with that as well. The more employers you approach, the more likely it is that you will receive interviews, and the more choices you will have.
Because hiring personnel change frequently and companies and law firms move, any targeted job search campaign may potentially result in some returned letters. If any of your letters are returned, we reissue you corrected letters or refund any fees you paid for the returned individual letter.
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