Minimizing Job Change Risk for Legal Secretaries In what may be a little-known fact, many legal secretaries have no hang-ups about changing jobs. This article explains what you can do to ensure you have the same experience. (49 views)
Small Law Firm vs Large Law Firm: Legal Secretaries Like Them Both! Summary: There are many reasons to consider a large law firm as opposed to a small one, and vice versa. This article presents a few of those reasons. (1312 views)
A Legal Secretary’s Job Hunt Guide Summary: This article describes the legal secretary job search process, from the first written plan to interviews and offers. (55 views)
Legal Secretarial Hiring Seasons Summary: This article describes the legal secretary hiring patterns of law firms in the Boston area, though the information provided is relevant throughout the country. (22 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)
What Can a Paralegal Do to Increase Their Chances of Being Hired at a Law Firm? We asked four attorneys what a paralegal could do to increase their chances of being hired at a law firm. Each attorney shared their opinion on what a paralegal could do to increase their chances of being hired at a law firm. What would be your answer? Feel free to share it in the comments below the article. (438 views)
How Hard is it for a Paralegal to Land a Job at a Good Law Firm? We asked attorneys and legal staff members throughout the country how hard it is for a paralegal to land a job at a good law firm. Several individuals weighed in on our question and provided excellent advice. We hope you enjoy their responses as much as we did. (3285 views)
Getting a Paralegal Job Getting a paralegal job typically requires advance planning. Begin now, in your first semester, by taking steps so that when you graduate you are prepared to actively seek employment. (23 views)
Honing Work Skills Can Help Legal Secretaries Succeed in a Tough Job Market The job of legal secretaries that involved only typing and answering phones has evolved with time to include several crucial activities that were once reserved for licensed lawyers and managerial staff. They can now select vendors, manage client relationships and draft legal documents like discovery requests and subpoenas. (111 views)
Legal Staff Jobs - 5 Qualities You Must Possess to Be in Demand in This Field Legal staff jobs are widely varied in nature and require highly specialized skills and qualifications. Besides the core qualification, possessing the following fundamental qualities ensures that you are not only in demand in your specialized legal field, but also climb to the pinnacle of success quickly. (76 views)
General Legal Job-Hunting Tips No matter what type of legal job you are looking for, or when, the following general tips and guidelines should be kept in mind. (73 views)
Placement and Temporary Agencies for Paralegal Candidates Many temporary placement agencies do permanent placements, and some permanent agencies have temporary departments. Note the difference, but be aware of the overlapping areas. Many agencies require experience before they will deal with you. In certain major cities though, entry paralegal candidates have been placed by placement agencies. It does not hurt to contact each... (167 views)
Paradigms of Paralegal Resumes and Paralegal Job Search The truly prepared paralegal about to engage in the effective paralegal job search will have the ability to "stylize" resumes. This is nothing more than taking a basic resume, which should be saved on a diskette, and making adjustments so that a differently targeted resume can be produced within a day. (295 views)
Potential Problems While Drafting a Paralegal Resume If you have potential problems in your background, such as gaps or jobs that you do not wish to draw attention to, then grapple with these issues in the "hard chronology." Each should be dealt with independently so that different approaches can be utilized. Some choose to avoid explanation. This approach lets the interviewer "discover" the gap or other problem. Some choose... (50 views)
Paralegal Job Search Plan: Objectives, Resources, Networking & Record Keeping There are number of books, articles and even blogs has been published with reference to interview techniques like what you have to offer an employer and how to do the paper work, including your skills assessment, resume, and cover letter-all in preparation for the interview. But unless you have a strategy for finding job opportunities, all that work will not help you. Your... (98 views)
The Four Top Enemies of a Paralegal Job Seeker Because hiring is both subjective and objective, much of interviewing is out of our control. New paralegals must say: "I can affect certain things in this interviewing process, and there are many things I cannot affect. I am going to affect what I can affect." The stage, the dialogue, the plot are all fairly predictable; the most important variable is your performance. It... (11 views)
Changing the Fortune of Your Paralegal Job Hunt Who does not want good fortune? Americans are crazy about lotteries for a basic human reason: A part of us, however small and unconscious it might be, wishes for a sudden external act to lift us high above our daily life. When we are looking for a job, that seed can flower into a full-blown shade tree. The job search and our personal situation blend together to make us... (14 views)
Do Not Neglect Sole Practitioner Lawyers When Looking for a Paralegal Job Do not think of a sole practitioner as a "country lawyer." Avoid assumptions about where the attorney comes from or whether the practice has the "sophistication" of a large firm. It is best to meet sole practitioners as you find them and respond to their stated needs. A sole practitioner might have left a large firm because of a desire for independence and being one's own... (75 views)
How to Get those Hidden Paralegal Jobs Strategies and first moves after graduation lead one naturally to a discussion about how to approach the advertised market and the unadvertised or "hidden" job market. Various studies have put the "hidden market" at 70-80 percent of the existing market for any given profession. (57 views)
Going for Paralegal Jobs at Large Law Firms How does an entry paralegal get into a large firm? Network through a friend, or the relative of a firm member, or the friend of a friend, or relative of an associate. Sometimes large firms go through agencies so that they do not have to interview until the end of the process. One entry paralegal got on with a large firm through a skiing club. (1278 views)
Effective Strategies for Getting a Paralegal Job You must think of yourself as employed when you are looking for a job. You are, in effect, working for yourself. When you look for a job, your employer is you, your paymaster is the future, and your profession is "effective job seeker." In reality, if you are doing it right, you are anything but unemployed when you are "unemployed." If you view this task as an occasional... (185 views)
Being Politically Correct on a Paralegal Job Hunt Certain practice areas lend themselves to large documentation, while others present you with more client contact. We have not yet discussed how personal politics or viewpoints might affect your hiring. While no one should ask your political allegiance or party affiliation, there is something to note as you conduct your job search campaign. Out there in the rough and tumble... (66 views)
Tips for Approaching Small Law Firms for Paralegal Jobs Strategies for appealing to small and midsize firms vary according to practice area and the firms' internal organizational structure. From the first contact to the last interview, the challenge for the aspiring paralegal is to be informed about the law firm, so let's look at the internal organizational structure of these firms. (176 views)
Bagging a Paralegal Job with a Sole Practitioner Strategies that work with sole practitioners are ones that demonstrate an understanding of their particular world. The world of the sole practitioner is different from the lawyer in the large firm. Same profession, different lives. The sole practitioner must worry about the business end of the practice, so the more accounting, balancing, bookkeeping, and/or cash handling... (241 views)
Why Job Hunting for Paralegals is Different than Others Effective job strategies and "first moves" that get attention are invaluable for some very obvious reasons. It helps to rehearse, though, because looking for a job is the most difficult and arduous task most people can imagine. (213 views)
Matching Job Expectations to Job Realities for a Paralegal Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca (4 B.C.-65 A.D.) (527 views)
Getting to Work as a Paralegal A number of career alternatives are open to a paralegal, from getting a job under and employer to alternative career tracks. In the first part of this article, we briefly mention alternative career tracks to a full job, and in the second part, we talk about finding your first job as a paralegal. (47 views)
Marketing Yourself as a Freelance Paralegal You know you're a talented paralegal, that you're resourceful, reliable and experienced. To be a success as a freelancer, you'll have to find ways to let your future clients know this too. And that means you'll have to sell your paralegal skills. In fact, your talents as a self-marketer are as important to your success as your expertise as a paralegal. (4958 views)
Sample Job Advertisements to Give You an Idea of the Paralegal Profession This article describes a few sample paralegal job advertisements to give a clear conception about real job functions of a paralegal. (3061 views)