Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA Santa Clara University School of Law, located in the center of Silicon Valley, CA, has been climbing the ranks as one of the top law schools in the country. The school was ranked 87th among the top-100 law schools in the United States in the U.S. News & World Report 2007 Graduate School Ranking. (1974 views)
Survival Tips for 1Ls Part 2 Continuing from last week, here are more tips on how to make it through your first year of law school with the least amount of headaches, heartbreaks, and hang-ups. From adopting a pet to joining a student organization, these tried and true stress-busters are sure to make your first year of law school the best that it can be. (169 views)
Consumer credit counseling agency can help you plan your credit, housing tips, budget and more America's gotten a lot savvier about credit. Now that we can take a free, no-strings-attached gander at our credit reports every year (courtesy of www.annualcreditreport.com), we're more cognizant of the impact bad credit has on our everyday lives. (26 views)
Hiring Outside Counsel Corporate Counsel continues its five-year-old tradition. After asking GCs at Fortune 250 companies to name their ''primary'' law firms in four key practice areas, the publication has released its survey results in an August report entitled ''Who Represents America's Biggest Companies.'' (126 views)
Jules Verne's epic journey began in Iceland's frozen volcano Harry Hardwigg got to Iceland's Snaefellsnes peninsula almost 150 years before I did. His narrative reports: ''At 6 o'clock in the evening, we reached Budir, a small town picturesquely situated on the shore of the ocean.'' (174 views)
New Scrambler's retro look belies a host of modern improvements Because Harley-Davidson's Sportster is considered such a fabled model from motorcycling's past, it's difficult sometimes for people to remember the Sportster was originally a knock-off of the Triumph Bonneville. (41 views)
Charity, and the law for establishing a religion as per the First Amendment George W. Bush took the presidential oath on that January day in 2001, came home from the Hill, and promptly issued Executive Order No. 13,199. Thus he created, overnight, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. (3 views)
Training provides the esteem driving today's workers For the past few years, work force development experts have been batting around the phrase ''lifelong learning.'' (2 views)
How do I know when it's time to use a recruiter for my next job or if I should search on my own? Working with a legal recruiter is the smartest decision a good attorney can make. Legal recruiters typically operate in the upper echelon of the legal profession; and for people who are suited for their services, legal recruiters are the absolute best career resources. Legal recruiters will identify the best opportunities for you, counsel you on your move, provide you... (166 views)
The Life and Career of Dennis Kennedy: Author,DennisKennedy.blog In a legal field bursting with blogs, Dennis Kennedy is probably most well known for his annual Blawggie Awards. A true technology buff, Kennedy is excited to find out what the future of blogging holds. (30 views)
Legal Technology: An Inside Look at Accepting Credit Cards as an Attorney—Without Getting Fleeced Accepting credit cards can be a very intimidating option to consider as a sole practitioner or small-firm attorney-if you deal with collecting retainers from your clients. (19 views)
August 28 2006 Legal Blog Roundup Everybody knows everyone in the blogosphere. Or the blawgosphere, at least. The number of cross-citations between blawgs that happens every single day is amazing. (27 views)
Formatting Your Resume It used to be that only graphic designers were judged to have the necessary skills and talent for designing and formatting. Now that page-layout software is ubiquitous, everyone thinks him/herself to be a formatter and—by extension—a graphic designer. It is off-topic here to debate whether flyers that ''everyone knows'' are poorly designed actually speak to their... (6054 views)
Erin Brockovich: Part 3 Going To Trial Fate dropped Erin Brockovich's latest lawsuit against Beverly Hills High right into her lap.It all began several years ago when Brockovich was in New York promoting her memoir, Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle But You Can Win. During a book signing, she met a young woman named Lori Moss, who had just finished a form of chemotherapy. When Brockovich asked the Beverly... (7469 views)
Michelle E. Duff: 2005-2006 President, Black Law Students Association, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL Third-year law student Michelle Duff got involved with the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at DePaul University College of Law and ended up serving as the organization's president. ''I got involved with this organization by signing up for their mentoring program my first year of law school and then by attending their events throughout the year,'' said Duff. (218 views)
Elizabeth A. Ellis: Assistant Dean and Director of Law Career Services, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL Elizabeth Ellis is Assistant Dean and Director of Law Career Services at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. The Valparaiso University School of Law graduate has been an attorney for 10 years. (266 views)
DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL Established in 1912, DePaul University College of Law is one of the academic entities of DePaul University and is located in the heart of downtown Chicago. The law school's 2005-2006 enrollment totaled 1,179 students, and it currently has 59 faculty members. Its alumni include state and federal judges; municipal, county, and state leaders; and two generations of Chicago... (681 views)
Survival Tips for 1Ls Part 1 You did the whole college graduation thing: You wore the infamous cap and gown yet again, posed for family pictures, and blew out the candles on the congratulatory cake. Now, it's time for the good stuff. You're off to law school, the land of historic law libraries and brilliant legal minds, and you're brimming with expectations. (268 views)
Claim in mail rebates as per Federal Trade Commission During back-to-school shopping season, your newspaper is stuffed with sales circulars promising ''The lowest prices of the season!'' and ''Best prices all year round!'' But many of those bargains aren't in the form of price reductions; instead, they're marked with an asterisk and the eensy-weensy tag-line, ''after mail-in rebate.'' (12 views)
The Journey up the corporate ladder from GC's to C.E.O's The corporate and legal communities received two shocks within the past month: first, when General Counsel Jeffrey Kindler became Pfizer, Inc.'s new CEO, and second, when General Counsel Paul Goldean became Scottish Re's new CEO. (1021 views)
The Smokies' well-known haze won't faze fall-foliage fans If you guessed that Yellowstone is the nation's most-visited national park, you'd be mistaken. Yellowstone was the first and has high name recognition, but the Smokies win the competition. (181 views)
Mercedes GL450 SUV a tad too serious to be fun The American-bred sport utility vehicle is a constant frustration to the import imitators.Those brands - the Europeans mostly - tend to take carmaking seriously and want to overthink and overengineer their versions of the SUV. (750 views)
AT&T takes on cable rivals with its Homezone service The much-hyped digital living room in which electronic devices communicate with each other wirelessly has taken one more step toward becoming a reality. (105 views)
The Case of Providing Shelter to the Homeless and its Adverse Repurcussions The church views its overnight guests as God's children, fallen upon hard times. The city sees them as a bunch of bums who hang around all night and frighten the tourists away. (12 views)
Innovative program helps women leave but stay connected In 1993, Deloitte was feeling pretty good about the opportunities it provided for female employees, recognizing that about half of all hires were women. (47 views)
The Life and Career of Sarah Weddington: Professor, University of Texas at Austin, TX Everyone has heard of Roe vs. Wade; but who exactly was Roe, and who was Wade? Sarah Weddington knows. In fact, as the attorney who represented and won the case on behalf of Roe, Weddington probably knows more about the case than anyone does. (561 views)
Tips on How to Write a Great Cover Letter and a Resume Your resume and cover letter are arguably the most important documents of your career, and you have direct control over exactly how good or how bad they are. When your career is at stake, it's important to make sure your resume and cover letter are not only excellent, but that they reflect who you are and the many skills you can bring to the firm or corporation to which... (4613 views)
Inside Legal B logs With the departure of my predecessor, Jeff, the Powers That Be at LawCrossing had a difficult choice to make. Law reviews are citing legal blogs, law professors use blogs to instruct, and an ever-growing number of attorneys find the blawg format to be a useful and flexible tool for discussion and debate. (And slagging off on their fellow counselors and whatever political... (7 views)
Essential Resume Profiles We at Attorney Resume believe that your Profile, which we put at the very top of a resume (immediately after your name and contact information), is essential to help a potential employer picture who you are. Your Profile can stand on its own, whether or not you have a cover letter. It should be accurate and backed up by details that you include in the rest of the resume.... (3049 views)
Part 2: Erin Brockovich Losing Ed Masry Since the 2000 release of the popular film Erin Brockovich, the woman who fearlessly convinced lawyer Ed Masry to challenge Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a billion- dollar corporation, has entranced the world. Together, Brockovich and Masry fought for the residents of California cities Hinkley and Kettleman, winning millions of dollars in damages. (91647 views)