On The Hunt: How To Spot a Legal Job Using Twitter It’s easy to see Twitter as merely a source of amusement—especially if your feed is bogged down with inane, minute-by-minute updates from friends and celebrities. After all, who cares what Nick Nolte had for breakfast or that your cousin lost her keys again? (35 views)
Top 5 Reasons Why You Need To Flesh Out Your LinkedIn Legal Profile Summary: Are you a lawyer looking for a change in employers? If you are on LinkedIn you should consider these 5 steps to make your profile more appealing. (402 views)
Why Law Grads Should Consider Government Work Summary: Law school graduates should take a second look at government work. It offers many advantages and a few disadvantages, and sometimes requires harder work in finding. This article lists the advantages, disadvantages, and gives advice on how to explore government jobs further. (4899 views)
How to Effectively Use Your Alumni Network during Your Job Search Summary: School is where most of us develop strong bonds, and for savvy job seekers, alumni networks are where it’s at when it comes to getting advice and hearing about opportunities. (357 views)
How Virtual Reality May Change Your Legal Job Search Forever Summary: Virtual reality (VR) is an exciting and relatively new technology that is booming, and yet many people, particularly in the law firm community, are still unfamiliar with what it actually is and how it can be used in real life. (611 views)
10 Tips to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile for Legal Job Searches Summary: LinkedIn is a perfect resource to conduct your legal job search. But do you know how to use LinkedIn to its fullest capacity? (2609 views)
How to Brand Yourself for Your Next Job Search Summary: Branding in the legal profession means, essentially, promotion. (904 views)
The Twenty Skills of the Job Search The twenty skills of the job search discussed below fall into four categories: self- assessment, detective, communication, and selling yourself. Each skill is briefly discussed below. (64 views)
Find a Job as a Foreign LL.M. Student Summary: Being in the U.S. as a foreign LL.M. student presents challenges when it comes time to find a job. Make sure you start early and follow these tips. (1203 views)
What You Need to Do to Land Your First Legal Job Summary: Learn what you need to do to land your first legal job in a difficult legal market. (257 views)
The Origins of LawCrossing Summary: The founder of LawCrossing explains his motivations and aspirations in building the largest legal job portal site on the web. (436 views)
Small Law Firms Prove to Be Big Source of Jobs Summary: More and more attorneys are looking at small firms than ever before after they graduate from law school. Find out what they have to offer in this article. (2439 views)
What is the Market Like for Entry Level Attorneys? Find Entry Level Attorney Jobs on LawCrossing Summary: It can still be hard to find an entry level attorney job, but learn how and where you can find them in this article. (170 views)
What is the Best Way to Get an In-House Position? Summary: This has been really, really popular – and at first I did not even understand why. (167 views)
Checklist to Follow before Starting a Legal Job Search Summary: Here is a checklist that you should follow before you start your legal job search. (887 views)
How to Get a Legal Job | An Attorney Job Search Guide for Attorneys and Law Students Summary: Your dream attorney job may seem like a mere daydream right now, especially if you feel stuck in a nightmare job. Here’s how you can turn your dream into a reality. (174 views)
Tips for Finding Contract Lawyer Jobs In today's cost-conscious professional environment, legal employers are reluctant to add another salary to their operating expense until they see a clear financial benefit. That's why contract work (also called temporary, freelance or project work) is fast becoming an inside track to long-term employment. Not all temporary opportunities translate into permanent positions... (281 views)
Top 10 Reasons Why Getting a Summer Associate Job with a Large Law Firm is Crucial to Your Legal Career While most law schools do not make a big deal out of it-and you may not even understand why (yet)-getting a job as a summer associate is extremely important to your future career as an attorney (if you hope to work inside of a large law firm). (15581 views)
What Everybody Ought to Know about LawCrossing Some plain talk about a simple business that is frequently misunderstood (1297 views)
Top Ten Reasons Why Older Attorneys Have a More Difficult Time Getting Law Firm Jobs When I first started practicing as a legal recruiter, I was amazed at how difficult it was for older attorneys to find jobs. Partners from major American law firms would frequently call me and express an interest in moving to a different law firm. However, many of these senior attorneys often had no choice but to move because they were being forced out of their law firms. (30801 views)
What Every Attorney Should Consider Before Accepting That First Offer The interviewing process can certainly be overwhelming and exhausting.While you are anxious to receive that offer, there are certain criteria every attorney should consider before accepting just any position.In order to find success and happiness within your job, you must carefully examine the long-term potential the opportunity embodies.Making sure this job is an ideal... (25 views)
How We Work on Client Files at Legal Authority The process of working on client files at Legal Authority is quite complicated and works like this: (13 views)
The Benefits of Contacting Law Firms and Companies Without Openings One of the questions we often receive at Legal Authority is why would you possibly want to send your application materials to a law firm without openings? This question doesn’t take into account the business model of most law firms or their internal economics. (235 views)
Landing an In-house Legal Job – 3 Important Tips Recruiters usually don’t cover in-house legal jobs at all. You may not realize this until you look specifically for an in-house legal position. Normally, recruiters focus on jobs in various law firms; very rarely do they list or even look at openings for in-house legal positions. On the other hand, those recruiters who do focus on this type of job are on the payroll of... (161 views)
Low Grades Should Not Stop You from Landing a Great Legal Job The belief goes like this, “If you are not in the top 10% of your class, you are not likely to get a good job in the legal field.” The first thing you should remember as a lawyer and professional, is that everything is possible if you push it strongly enough. In this case, you need to approach the task just like you would if you had filed for bankruptcy and were... (47 views)
5 Tips for Targeting Your Job Search as the Economy Recovers Many new college graduates take a similar, passive approach to attempting to gain employment: Post a resume on job sites and hope for the best. However, as the economy begins to recover jobs are still at somewhat of a premium, so doing this and nothing more just isn't going to cut it. (15 views)
How to Land Your First Job as a Lawyer Students fresh out of law school have little better than a 50-50 shot at landing a job as a lawyer within nine months of receiving a degree, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Many of the graduates find work as sole practitioners or at smaller firms, which tend not to hire full-time until graduates pass the bar exam. (307 views)
Getting a Job in the Legal Field - A More Serious Issue than Getting the Degree A legal career is gaining momentum and is rising up with many other job options. Many are getting attracted toward a legal career as the perks that it offers are far more impressive than many other career options. Once you find out that you have all the skills required for an attorney and you have earned your degree, how do you get started with your practice? (320 views)
How to Land Your First Job as an Attorney Everyone wants to begin on the right foot, and it’s no different for law graduates. Finding the right first job is like laying the foundation of a building. If the foundation is not strong then the strength of the building is always vulnerable. However, on the contrary, a strong foundation ensures a firm structure for many years. In current scenario, getting the first... (193 views)
Finding New Law Associate Positions The key to finding a position as a third-year student is to determine which firms are hiring. Some firms hire new associates all of the time, while others hire only once in a ten-year period. Your job is to keep moving and to find and target the firms that are hiring now. Your best bet is to stay away from the large firms (firms with over 75 to 100 attorneys) and... (10 views)