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Introduction One of the most misunderstood facets of the legal-recruiting industry is the following: You have many options when choosing a legal recruiter (not just the one that cold-called you), and how well you work with your legal recruiter will directly influence how successful the legal recruiter is in working with you. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO The danger of getting jobs through friends By Harrison Barnes, Esq. Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. - Tacitus (c. 55-120 A.D.) + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Do not become a victim of the insecurity of others By Harrison Barnes, Esq. Attorneys work extremely hard in large law firms to achieve partner status. Even when they do become partners, there remain different lines of authority between partners which make some feel important and others quite insecure. When an associate is dealing with a partner, he or she is dealing with someone who is in a position to feel insecure because there are almost certainly going to be more important partners above him or her. The best thing you can do in the law firm environment is cater to a partner's need to feel important. Conversely, one of the worst things you can do in a law firm environment is do things to make a partner feel insecure. When you make a partner feel insecure, the response of the partner is generally to stop giving you work or lobby for you to be fired or replaced. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Narcissistic entitlement syndrome By Harrison Barnes, Esq. The word narcissism comes from the character made famous by the Greek poet Ovid, Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection. In the story, Echo falls in love with Narcissus and gets rejected. The story makes clear that Narcissus is only able to love himself and not others. Conversely, Echo completely loses herself in her love for Narcissus and has no sense of self at all. At the end of the story, Narcissus tells Echo, "I would die before I give you power over me." Echo responds, "I give you power over me." Both Narcissus and Echo die because their love is unattainable. Many of us cannot find a balance between ourselves and others. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Why you should work weekends and holidays By Harrison Barnes, Esq. To be clear, this article is going to deal with, and encourage, some rather inhumane truths about practicing law in law firms. I cannot tell you how many associate careers I have seen ruined by the wrong attitude when it comes to working weekends and holidays. While you may consider working in a law firm "just a job," if you telegraph that message to your superiors, you will be in trouble quite quickly. In order to really thrive in a law firm, your work must be far, far more than just a job. There is no better way to let your superiors know that your work is more than just a job than working weekends and holidays. To get ahead, you must do this. You certainly do not need to work every weekend and holiday. Nevertheless, this should not be something you make a major effort to avoid. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO The best attorneys want information By Harrison Barnes, Esq. Introduction As a legal recruiter, I am often quite surprised by the differences among attorneys in their receptiveness of information presented to them. When associates are called by a recruiter out of the blue, they are often extremely suspicious, declare they are not interested in speaking with the recruiter at all, brag about how happy they are, and then get off the phone as quickly as possible. Successful partners and associates tend to do the opposite. An event of a couple of weeks ago comes to mind. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO The importance of being well-liked in your legal job By Harrison Barnes, Esq. One of the most persistent problems attorneys practicing law have is their failure to collaborate and learn from the other attorneys they are practicing law with. There are several factors that are essential for success in the practice of law and advancing in your career. Being well-liked and collaborating are two of the more important ones. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Do recruiters just mass mail resumes? By Harrison Barnes, Esq. Introduction Very few people within the legal profession understand exactly what a recruiter does. At its highest level, legal recruiting is an extremely sophisticated business. Nevertheless, legal recruiters must, as a general rule, make submissions to law firms. Making submissions to law firms, by necessity, requires that legal recruiters send out your resume. The issue then becomes this: What is the most effective way for a recruiter to make a submission? + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO A Guide to the interview By Harrison Barnes, Esq. How to Excel in Law Firm Interviews We have seen the same scenario repeat itself over and over again. We send a highly qualified candidate out on an interview, only to later learn that a job offer was never extended. What went wrong? The reasons for unproductive interviews vary from one attorney to another. Furthermore, interviews are often handled differently, depending on whether the interviewee is a senior partner, an associate with one to four years of experience, or a senior associate. Hiring organizations also pose questions about certain topics at different stages of the interviewing process. However, candidates need to be ready to answer every question, whether it's posed to them during the initial screening interview, the callback interview, or during a post-offer stage. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Firm culture matters most By Harrison Barnes, Esq. We believe that an attorney's happiness and success in the practice of law have more to do with a particular law firm culture (which is sometimes also referred to as the personality of a firm) than with any other factor. This article discusses (a) the importance of firm culture, (b) why some attorneys do not give strong consideration to firm culture when joining a firm either during or after law school, (c) the reason a failure to seriously consider firm culture prematurely ends many legal careers, and (d) why making a lateral move provides the best opportunity to evaluate firm culture and the course of your career. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Resume writing from the experts By Harrison Barnes, Esq. Introduction A good resume is an extremely important tool in the job-search process. Because firms are inundated with resumes, your resume must be able to get the attention of the hiring partner and create a good, strong impression at a brief glance. Your resume is your sales pitch to the hiring partner. It is not merely a recitation of your life's chronology. You need to make your value to the employer clear, and because your resume will likely only get about 30 seconds of the partner's time, you need your value to be emphasized and evident from a quick scan and cursory examination. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO The interview quandary By Harrison Barnes, Esq. Should You Talk About Other Interviews in Your Interview? One of the questions I receive quite often from the attorneys I work with is whether or not they should talk about other interviews while they are interviewing with law firms. Let me emphasize one thing: This is one of the more important questions you will have to answer in an interview. Regardless of your qualifications, how you respond to this question will have a direct bearing on whether or not you receive an offer from the law firm interviewing you, so you have to be very careful with your answer. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Builders and destroyers By Harrison Barnes, Esq. In every organization, there are people who are positive forces that lead, inspire, and build and others who are negative forces that criticize, depress, and tear down. This dichotomy can be carried further to cover virtually any social group. This distinction is so clear that a cognizable argument could be made that most people can be grouped into one category or another. Which are you? In life, as in work, you will be faced with a decision of which group to join, and your decision will have a meaningful effect on your long-term success. Whether or not your workplace is composed mainly of builders or destroyers will also have a meaningful effect on your organization's overall success. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO The importance of fitting in By Harrison Barnes, Esq. One of the most persistent mistakes legal professionals make is to not understand the importance of fitting in their work environments. Indeed, fitting in is something that enables you to both get and keep a job. In terms of what it takes to succeed in the practice of law over the long term, fitting in may actually be more important than your skill level. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Treating your legal career like a small business By Harrison Barnes, Esq. At the outset, it is important to realize that much of what I am saying goes against the traditional view of the law as a profession. Obviously, the law is a profession. Notwithstanding the use of the word "profession," though, you can still get fired, not advance, or find yourself in a dead-end job. Your skills or specialty can quickly become irrelevant in the marketplace. You can also find yourself in a geographic location where there is no work (i.e., business). + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Salary wars and associate hiring By Harrison Barnes, Esq. As a recruiting firm, we talk to both partners and associates at firms in every major legal marketplace on a daily basis. These conversations often concern why a lawyer is dissatisfied with his/her current firm or what kind of lawyer a firm seeks to hire. We have discovered that the salary increases that have taken place over the past several years have actually had the effect of straining professional relationships between partners and associates and also between partners. In the end, the more that money becomes the dominating factor defining the relationships among attorneys, the more the profession becomes like a business and less like, well, a profession. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Law School grades and your career By Harrison Barnes, Esq. Grades are important to many law firms when making hiring decisions. However, the weight that they carry in these decisions most often depends on the particular firm involved and whether you are (A) a junior attorney or law student, (B) a mid-level to senior associate, or (C) a partner. At each stage of your career, the importance of your law school grades will diminish, and your work experience will take precedence in hiring decisions. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Taking a hiatus from practicing law By Harrison Barnes, Esq. It is becoming increasingly common for attorneys desiring more than a few weeks off from the practice of law to simply quit their current jobs. Unlike some other professions, most law firms do not look favorably upon attorneys' taking more than a few weeks off unless they are involved in "a major life event." In the calculus of most law firms, a "major life event" is primarily limited to such circumstances as the death of a close family member (usually a spouse), a life-threatening illness, or the birth of a child (only if you are a woman). Accordingly, attorneys without such explanations often simply quit, explaining to flabbergasted partners that they want to take some time off for travel or reflection. The logic most attorneys follow in quitting is that if they take significant time off from their current firm under any guise other than one of these life-changing events, they will harm their chances for advancement in their current firm's eyes, and therefore, they need to quit completely and find a new law firm once they are ready to return to legal practice. Given the way that law firm politics generally work, that logic is pretty accurate. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Moving your career to another city By Harrison Barnes, Esq. BCG Guide to Relocation There is nothing more exciting than leaving one area of the country and going to a new area to start a new career and life. One of the advantages of having chosen a career in the fluid legal industry is that you do have the option of living in other parts of the United States or even the world. We have moved attorneys from one city to another and from one continent to another. Indeed, as an attorney-search firm that places attorneys throughout the United States and the world, we believe that we have made a positive difference in the quality of many lives through our relocation efforts. For excellent attorneys, we are the relocation experts. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO Relocating Overseas By Harrison Barnes, Esq. In recent years, a good number of American attorneys have relocated overseas. These relocations have been principally to London and Hong Kong. While many American attorneys may not consider an overseas assignment when they get out of law school, it is worthwhile to note that a legal career overseas may be a viable option for many American attorneys. Because BCG Attorney Search has American attorneys interviewing on an ongoing basis in London and Hong Kong, we believe that the international demand for American attorneys merits discussion. + read more Date: 00-00-0000 Article type: Articles from the CEO 4301 archived articles First Previous 212 213 214 215 216  Total Legal Jobs 89,573 New Legal Jobs in Last 7 Days 10,970 LEGAL JOB SEARCH Job Type: Select a Job Type Select All AttorneyLaw Student / ClerkshipLegal StaffPartnerPost Graduate ClerkshipSummer Associate / Internship Browse Jobs by Location: Select All AlabamaAlaskaAmerican SamoaArizonaArizona-PhoenixArizona - OtherArkansasCaliforniaCalifornia-OrangeCalifornia-OaklandCalifornia-San JoseCalifornia-San FranciscoCalifornia-Los AngelesCalifornia-San DiegoCalifornia-SacramentoCalifornia - OtherColoradoColorado-DenverColorado-OtherConnecticutConnecticut-HartfordConnecticut-OtherDelawareDelaware-WilmingtonDistrict of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia-WashingtonFloridaFlorida-OrlandoFlorida-TampaFlorida-MiamiFlorida-OtherGeorgiaGeorgia-AtlantaGeorgia-OtherGuamHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIllinois-ChicagoIllinois-OtherIndianaIndiana-IndianapolisIndiana-OtherIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMaryland-BaltimoreMaryland-OtherMassachusettsMassachusetts-BostonMassachusetts-OtherMichiganMichigan-Grand RapidsMichigan-DetroitMichigan-OtherMinnesotaMinnesota-MinneapolisMississippiMissouriMissouri-St. LouisMissouri-Kansas CityMissouri-OtherMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNew York-BuffaloNew York-AlbanyNew York-RochesterNew York-New York CityNew York-OtherNorth CarolinaNorth Carolina-CharlotteNorth Carolina-RaleighNorth Carolina-OtherNorth DakotaNorthern Mariana IslandsOhioOhio-ClevelandOhio-CincinnatiOhio-OtherOklahomaOklahoma-Oklahoma CityOregonPennsylvaniaPennsylvania-PhiladelphiaPennsylvania-PittsburghPennsylvania-OtherPuerto RicoRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTennessee-NashvilleTennessee-OtherTexasTexas-DallasTexas-AustinTexas-San AntonioTexas-HoustonTexas-OtherUtahVermontVirgin IslandsVirginiaVirginia-RichmondVirginia-OtherWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyomingAlbertaBritish ColumbiaOntarioQuebecAustralia-MelbourneAustriaBelgium-BrusselsBelgium-OtherBulgariaChina-ShanghaiChina-BeijingChina-OtherColombiaEngland-LondonEngland-OtherEngland-AvonEurope-OtherFrance-ParisFrance-OtherFinlandGermany-Frankfurt/MainGermany-MunichGermany-OtherGermany-DusseldorfGreece-OtherGreece-AthensHolland-OtherHolland-AmsterdamHong KongItaly-OtherItaly-RomeIndiaIndonesiaIrelandIsraelJapan-TokyoLuxembourgMalaysiaMongoliaNetherlandsNew ZealandNigeriaPhilippinesPolandQatarJapan-OtherRussia-OtherRussia-MoscowSpain-OtherSpain-MadridSaudi ArabiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandThailandUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomVietnam Employer Type: Select All AcademicRecruiterGovernmentIn-HouseJudgesPublic InterestLaw Firm Keyword Search: Show Recruiter Jobs   Show Refreshed Jobs   + Advanced Search What is LawCrossing? 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