Kathy Surber Moore: Paralegal with Butler, Vines and Babb, Knoxville, TN Kathy Surber Moore said that she was motivated to become a paralegal because she wanted a career that was both challenging and personally rewarding. She added that she also wanted a career that was connected to the law in some way. (302 views)
Broadening Your Resume When Job Experience is Scarce Many law students spend their entire college careers focusing on their studies and overall academic performances, which leaves them no time to hold down full-time jobs. Although this sacrifice pays off when students end up with records of high scholastic achievement upon graduation, full-time law students can find it difficult to put together resumes demonstrating strong,... (3073 views)
The importance of using blogs by In-House Counsel's Millions of Internet users post or read online blogs, and that number is slowly beginning to include in-house counsel. (46 views)
The Life and Career of Cynthia H. Cwik: Partner with Latham & Watkins, San Diego, CA Cynthia Cwik already knew what she wanted to do at an age when most of her peers were still trying to decide if the Easter Bunny was real. (860 views)
The Life and Career of Adrienne Meddock: Assistant Dean for the Evening Program and Visiting Assistant Professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law, Durham, NC Adrienne Meddock, a former member of two alternative bands and at one time an aspiring architect, is now the Assistant Dean for the Evening Program at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law. (329 views)
The importance of soft skills in Email Etiquettes In our contemporary, technology-savvy workplace, it is almost impossible to avoid emailing cover letters and resumes to potential employers; in fact, email is usually the initial means of communication between employers and their job candidates. A series of questions may cross a person's mind when he or she is about to send a submission via email. Because email is still... (223 views)
How Michael Tyler, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Gateway, Inc began his career in law ... (83 views)
How Should I Act at Law Firm Functions? (Part I) Once a law firm or other legal employment organization hires you or becomes interested in hiring you, there is a very good chance you will be asked to attend a social function. This social function might be a dinner at an important (or not so important) partner's house, a firm party, an outing�you name it. There are many different types of functions you may be asked... (207 views)
Paring down to-do list should be No. 1 Just about every morning when I get to the office, I draw up a list of things I want to accomplish that day. (12 views)
Death in the Dessert For the record: I never, ever left Nancy Marsh tied to the railway tracks. No. In my journal for 1930, I left her pleading for mercy after I threw her naked on an anthill in the Choctaw dessert. I was 10 years old. (51 views)
FTS Wireless to Begin Offering New MySpace Accessible Cell Phones From Helio(TM) FTS Wireless Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of FTS Group, Inc. (OTCBB: FLIP), today announced that it will begin offering Helio(TM) Wireless handsets and rate plans through its retail and new Internet sales channels beginning in November.
Honda Element SC makes for good chemistry with smitten buyers When the Honda Element debuted in late 2002, it was among the first small, car-based utility vehicles, rearranged from the basic underpinnings of the Civic. (7601 views)
Deck the Del with boughs of holly The thought of San Diego evokes images of sand castles, sailboats, surfboards - and Christmas? Absolutely. (166 views)
The Credit Card Trap A perennial topic in personal finance circles is the inability of American consumers to manage their credit cards. Too many of us assume that we're doing just fine as long as we're making that minimum payment each month. In fact, we are doing just fine — fine for the credit card companies. (29 views)
Willamette University College of Law, Salem, OR Willamette University College of Law, located in Salem, OR, was established more than 120 years ago. With all those years of history inside its walls, Willamette prides itself in equipping students to face the ever-changing world of law with confidence and enthusiasm. As stated on its website, the school ''does not produce clones,'' but enables its students to ''travel the... (67 views)
A Law for the elderly : As devised by Program Coordidnator of Oakland University As baby boomers continue to grow older, elder law has become a burgeoning area of law. Spurred on by an aging population, paralegal programs are adding elective elder law courses to their existing course catalogs in order to make sure that their graduates are educated on the various issues facing the elderly. (116 views)
Norma S. Freitas: Assistant Director of Career Services, Willamette University College of Law, Salem, OR Norma S. Freitas is a fresh face in the field of career services. Having become a member of the Career Services Department at Willamette University College of Law on August 1, 2006, she is thoroughly enjoying her new position and the work that it allows her to do. (188 views)
Sinclair Community College's Paralegal Program, Dayton, OH Sinclair Community College has a mission, should you choose to accept it. The school is committed to helping individuals turn dreams into achievable goals by offering accessible, high-quality, affordable learning opportunities. (282 views)
November 13 2006 Legal Blog Roundup Someone in heaven must be looking out for me. A week ago, if someone had asked me to create my ideal job, I would have tried to come up with something involving all of my passions: ice cream, Three's Company reruns, and napping. But since no one will pay me to vegetate on my parents' sofa, eat fudgesicles, and exchange knowing glances with Mr. Roeper (Why is he always... (5 views)
The Life and Career of Preston C. Greene: President, Black Law Students Association, Willamette University College of Law, Salem, OR Preston C. Greene, a 3L at Willamette University College of Law, used to want to be a professional baseball player. However, after that dream fell through when he was about 12 years old, he turned his attention to the field of law. Ever since then, he has forged ahead toward the goal of becoming an attorney, inspired by the myriad possibilities that exist for attorneys,... (389 views)
Execute Internal Investigations Carefully In the wake of corporate scandals, internal investigations into corporate practices are increasingly common, and with the rise in stock option backdating, they are likely to remain so. In order to avoid criminal charges, corporate counsel should take steps to ensure that investigations are carefully executed. (51 views)
The Life and Career of James S. Heller: Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at the William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law In a September interview with LawCrossing, James S. Heller, Director of the Marshall-Wythe Law Library at the College of William and Mary School of Law, discussed the importance of paying attention to relevance when conducting legal research, as well as the ways in which technology affects that research. ''Research,'' said Heller, ''is about the search for authority.''... (169 views)
LexisNexis: A Researcher's Treasure Chest The LexisNexis online database is one of the most extensive, comprehensive, and precise information resources available. By utilizing its specific search options, one can browse through billions—yes, billions—of archives, including newspaper articles, magazine articles, legal documents, and other printed sources. A division of Reed Elsevier, Inc., LexisNexis prides... (102 views)
The Life and Career of Michael Dorf: Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law and Author of No Litmus Test: Law versus Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Michael Dorf, the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law, said his mentors played a vital role in shaping his career path; and he encourages students to establish relationships with their professors as well. As a student, Dorf fully intended to become a lawyer, but his teachers at Harvard Law School helped him realize that becoming a... (199 views)
Nicole Paquette: General Counsel and Director of Legal and Government Affairs for the Animal Protection Institute, Sacramento, CA Animal law, a practice area that is only about 30 years old, is now a flourishing legal field. Aware of the growing demand for animal lawyers, Nicole Paquette decided to pursue a career fighting for the underdog. (580 views)
Downsized but upscale: Ford's Sport Trac can tow weekend toys, go to work or school We're all doing more with less, and so is Ford's 2007 Sport Trac, built from a stretched Explorer SUV. (1661 views)
How Alvarado-Garza Got Her Job as a Paralegal This week, LawCrossing speaks with Thelma Alvarado-Garza about how she found her job. A paralegal at the firm of Whitehurst, Harkness, Ozmun & Brees in Austin, TX, Alvarado-Garza has been a paralegal for 16 years in the plaintiff's personal injury area. (10 views)
A Real-Life Witch School Every week on our website we feature short articles about law schools and law students. It is our objective to inform our readers about prestigious facilities and to tell the stories of successful law students around the country. This week, just for fun, we decided to feature a Halloween-inspired story about a different kind of school and student body. Students at this... (979 views)
Good morning Bermuda Long before most people awake, Johnny Barnes arrives at the Crow Lane roundabout in Hamilton, Bermuda. He wears a straw hat, red shirt and long, blue pants with suspenders. In the grassy traffic island he hangs his red tote bag from a ''Give Way'' sign and props a furled umbrella nearby. Then he waits for someone to drive by. (82 views)
Review: Apple Offers Value in New IPods (AP) - Fans of Apple Computer Inc.'s portable music players will find the new, video-capable models of the iPod and its miniature counterpart, the Nano, clearly worth the wait.As with previous iPods, the Nano now comes in a variety of storage capacities and colors, not just silver and black. There's green, blue, pink and starting last week red, each holding 4 gigabytes of...