Perfecting the Dialogue: Crafting a Powerful Interview Methodology for Legal Recruitment Interviews play a pivotal role in legal recruitment, offering a platform for candidates to showcase their skills and experiences while allowing firms to assess their suitability for the role. Crafting a powerful interview methodology is essential for legal recruitment success, ensuring that both parties engage in meaningful dialogue and make informed decisions. This... (6 views)
How Attorneys Can Make the Best Use of Volunteer Time Changing social conditions are causing nonprofit groups to pursue attorneys more actively for assistance. Because attorneys tend to be joiners by nature, they can use their volunteer time to aid nonprofit groups while satisfying personal and professional goals. A common pitfall for aggressive attorneys is to take on too much responsibility and ultimately benefit no one. (5 views)
Legal Career -- Its Contours The legal profession occupies a unique and enviable place in the American social order. Ever since our colonial forbearers booted out the British, and de Tocqueville proclaimed lawyers as the new American aristocracy, lawyers have enjoyed a certain mystique in this country. (5 views)
Back to School As a Teacher? Have you ever thought about how a vacation rejuvenates a person and his/her career? I am sure you have. But have you, as an attorney, thought of going back to school for anything else rather than for higher studies? Like joining as a teacher perhaps? (5 views)
Mind Your Manners! An interview is the final destination in any job pursuit; we all know that. So when you walk in the door, there are several things that must be aligned, so to speak. Not to sound like your mother, but minding your manners is one of them. ''Well, duh,'' you're probably thinking. But you'd be surprised at some of the mindless blunders people make in these first-impression... (5 views)
How to Be a Supreme Want to sit on the Supreme Court yourself someday? Weigh the big constitutional questions? Shoot hoops in the high court gym? Here's what to do. (5 views)
Law Students and Associates Need to Get Out More In late June LegalTech will be moving west to Los Angeles. When I was at a firm, I loved running over to the nation's largest legal technology conference during its New York run for half an hour or so over lunch. I had a chance to preview new tools designed to make my life easier, talk to people excited about their work, and learn about salesmanship. I struck up random... (5 views)
Fraud Legal Market Day to day life is full of disputes and issues that need to be resolved. It is for this reason that every country has established a judicial system to cater for such particular issues. A judicial system has two major key players. These are the prosecution and the defendant. Both parties need legal representation, since most of the legal matters are somewhat technical and... (5 views)
Ken Salazar's Battle As the anniversary nears for the Deepwater Horizon's explosion that left eleven men dead and devastated the entire Gulf Coast region, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar found himself seething over news that TransOcean, the owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon, issued bonuses to its executives, all the while applauding workers for ''the best year in safety performance in... (5 views)
Alan Dershowitz: A Global Law Star Alan Dershowitz has been involved with several high profile legal cases throughout the entirety of his almost 50 year law career. Dershowitz, who is an esteemed professor at Harvard Law School, has a very global presence. (5 views)
How to Be a Wrongful Death Attorney There are so many different ways that you might want to focus your law career on making sure that you can make the most out of what you have accomplished. The best way for you to focus on a good law career is to pick something that interests you and something that you will be able to be good at. When you are a lawyer, just like with anything else, you need to be sure that... (5 views)
Jobs For Attorney: How To Position Yourself For Success According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a steady growth in the demand for jobs for attorney is expected in the short and medium term. This implies that even though as of 2008, there were 759,000 attorneys in the United States, the need for lawyers has so far been insatiable. There are many types of attorney jobs that you can choose from; but the best jobs are... (5 views)
Ways to Find Law Job Listings Are you looking for law jobs and wondering where to turn? Perhaps you are still a law student or maybe you are simply not happy with the current sector of law you are practicing and wish to make a change. You will see many job listings in various magazines and newspapers such as law job listings, lawyer careers, attorney job openings, law employment openings, work for... (5 views)
Gender Pay Gap In 2008, according to United States census statistics, women in the United States were making an average of 77 cents to the man's dollar and female attorneys at law firms are not excluded from the pay equity gap. If you look specifically at African American women, that number drops down to 68 cents followed by Latinas making 58 cents. It is illegal to discriminate based... (5 views)
Sin, Redemption and Salvaged Careers This past Sunday, Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter took to the airwaves and expressed his disappointment that President Obama's State of the Union Address failed to mention last summer's massive explosion that killed eleven men and resulted in a shut down of activity along the Gulf Coast. This week, we take a look at the career and scandal that has defined the... (5 views)
The Honorable Roger Vinson ''If they decided that everybody needs to eat broccoli because broccoli is healthy, they would mandate that everybody has to buy a certain amount of broccoli each week''. With that analogy, Judge Roger Vinson entered the highly charged Obamacare health care debate. (5 views)
Business Leader Magazine Honors Florida Attorney In recognition of her substantial contributions to the local business community, Florida-based attorney Kelley Geraghty Price has been named to the 2011 Women Extraordinaire list by Business Leader Magazine. Price, who was honored at a December 12th ceremony, will be featured in a future edition of Business Leader Magazine. (5 views)
Exploration of the Legal Job Market Once you can articulate your strengths, skills, motives and goals, you need to find out who would be interested in the "product" you are selling. (5 views)
Workplace Discrimination Remains Strong In an ideal world, we would have reached a point in the modern workplace where discrimination issues no longer exist. However, as evidenced by the ongoing need for agencies such as the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Labor Department, this is far from true. (5 views)
Early Investing: Get Rich Slow It's never too early to start squirreling away your newfound salary. Find answers to your most pressing questions about investing, then learn about three funds you should check out before you can say 'year-end bonus.' (5 views)
How "emotion's play a decisive role in the court rooms At least once in everyone's life there comes a time when a decision is made purely on emotion. Whether it involves agreeing to see the ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend even though you know you really shouldn't, buying those expensive but fabulous stiletto heels, or eating that dessert after already indulging in a four- or five-course meal, sometimes you just let your brain... (5 views)
The Advantage of installing a Wireless network to stay connected on the Internet You started your own firm and are growing your business and doing what you love. But you didn't go to law school to become an IT person. With your own practice comes the responsibility of setting up and maintaining the required technology for getting business done—likely several computers, a printer/fax machine, and a reliable connection to the Internet. The question... (5 views)
Lawyers Finding Jobs in the Financial Industry No corporation could long exist without a financial control center which may be known variously as the treasurer's office, comptroller's office or the accounting and finance department. In some corporations it also includes a separate and distinct internal audit department which on a day-to-day basis performs duties similar to those of an outside auditor, but in greater... (5 views)
Volunteering at Expensive Legal Conferences to Make Contacts Dear Lawcrossing, My boyfriend wants to go into Securities Law. We found out about a seminar being given next month in New York City on securities law, and obviously there will be many securities practitioners there. We think it would be a great opportunity but it costs over a thousand dollars! He is a recent law school grad, awaiting bar results ... in other words,... (5 views)
Strategies for Recovering After Blowing a Major Interview Dear Lawcrossing, I feel like a complete idiot. I went to a job fair and I got an interview with my dream employer. It was scheduled for four o'clock. I didn't want to stand around for the rest of the day so I signed up for three interviews with other employers before that, and they turned out to be all in a row. By the time I got to the interview I really wanted, I was... (5 views)
Reviewing Your Skills to Ensure You Get the Right Type of Job Before you start looking for a job, you need to know what type of job you want. For people who have had extensive experience or who have a license or certificate in one type of job, this is a simple decision. Licensed beauticians, electricians, barbers, teachers, social workers, auto repairpersons, plumbers, and so forth usually know exactly what type of job they... (5 views)
Facing the Geographical Challenges of a Job Most of us would prefer a job that is close to home—ideally within a short walking distance. But jobs are rarely so convenient, so many people must travel great distances. The problem may be that you live in a small town that has very few jobs. Or you may live in a suburban residential area that has virtually no jobs. Or the type of job you prefer may not exist near your... (5 views)
Stephen Martin Thinks Outside the Box as General Counsel for Corpedia, Inc. Stephen Martin believes that a successful general counsel needs to have the ability to think outside the box and to be proactive. (5 views)
How Attorneys Can Enhance the Role of Their Staff in External Marketing Training for business development involves workshops, seminars, and courses aimed at sharpening client/service skills. It involves programs for attorneys, professional staff, and support employees. In larger firms, training can be provided using in-house resources. Examples are: (5 views)