Discover Your Passion and Purpose in Law: A Q&A with Paul DeGroot A little paternal advice helped guide Paul DeGroot toward his niche in the law. Just a few years out of Widener University School of Law, DeGroot already felt uninspired working as a law firm associate handling insurance defense and personal injury cases. (665 views)
Start Your Legal Career in Silicon Valley: Santa Clara Law Students Work & Innovate at the Law Center The Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center at the Santa Clara University School of Law in Santa Clara, CA, is a vibrant mix of legal services for local people and educational programs for law students. (43 views)
7 Tips to Achieve Success as a Lawyer: Thomas L. Shaffer Shares His Advice In the second of a two-part series on Lawyers, Faith, and Social Justice, LawCrossing profiles Thomas L. Shaffer, the Notre Dame Law School professor and prolific legal author. Professor Shaffer's comments are excerpted from a public lecture to law students at Pepperdine Law School on Law, Faith, and Social Justice. (444 views)
Begin a Bright Future: Tips for Moving to a City with a Rich History The common wisdom in China is that if you want to learn what happened 2,000 years ago, you visit Xi'an. If you want to learn what happened 1,000 years ago, you visit Beijing. If you want to find out what is happening today, you go to Shanghai. (155 views)
How to Decide Whether to Stay or Leave Your Current Job - Insights From a Recruiter In the first of a two-part series, Claudia Spielman, BCG Attorney Search recruiter, uses her own experience to guide young attorneys (though the advice applies to anyone in or contemplating a career in the legal industry) on how to evaluate whether to stay at a law firm. (115 views)
Impress Your Employer: Tips for Dressing for an Interview It’s time to put away the jeans and khakis. If you want to feel confident and successful, you need to start dressing like it. (145 views)
Mark Tuohey | Get Expert Legal Insights from Former White House Attorney and Lobbyist As a partner at Vinson & Elkins and chairman of the DC Sports & Entertainment Commission, Mark Tuohey is an expert at juggling a busy complex litigation practice and community service. LawCrossing speaks with Tuohey about his role in high-profile investigations like Whitewater and bringing Major League Baseball to the nation's capital. (852 views)
How to Become a Lawyer: An Inside Look at Working Behind the Bar Page 4 How is the exam structured? With a few exceptions (like the aforementioned California and Texas), most states' bar exams consist of two days of testing: the Wednesday MBE and a Tuesday or Thursday state-specific exam. (1521 views)
Become a Lawyer: Uncover What It Takes to Build a Career Behind the Bar Page 2 Why do I have to take it? Since the quality of education and specific curricula can vary significantly from school to school, the bar exam determines a standard level of competency among law school graduates. In conjunction with a demonstration of sufficient character and fitness (your bar application includes a questionnaire used to determine that you are... (2036 views)
Navigating the Legal Industry with the Innovative New Program at Emory Law School Emory University School of Law in Atlanta recently launched a new collaborative academic program giving students real-world IP and business law experience. The ''Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results'' or ''TI:GER'' program connects science/Ph.D. and MBA students from Georgia Tech with Emory Law students for a two-year workshop focusing on the intersections... (90 views)
Scott Turow, Renowned Lawyer & Best-Selling Author, Joins Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago, IL This week, we profile Scott Turow, partner at Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and acclaimed novelist of some of the most popular legal fiction of our times. His career, while unlikely to be duplicated anytime soon, serves as a model for attorneys with more than one passion. (688 views)
Make a Solid Start to Your Legal Career: A Guide for Small Business Lawyers 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... (29 views)
Janet Mosseri - Experienced Director of Career Development at Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University For Janet Mosseri, Director of Career Development at the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University, helping legal professionals find jobs is a lot more rewarding than adjudicating a lot of ''garbage cases.'' Don't get her wrong - Mosseri, a former administrative law judge for the City of New York, isn't passing judgment on those cases she heard. (172 views)
Recruiting During an Economic Downturn: How Law Schools Can Adapt to OCI Cutbacks The poor economy means students will have to work harder for a chance at fewer jobs in this fall's on-campus interviewing season. (207 views)