Navigating the Legal Job Market: A Comprehensive Guide for Recent Law Graduates Customizing your resume for legal positions is a crucial step in presenting yourself as the ideal candidate. Here's an expanded explanation of this key strategy: (93 views)
Unlocking Opportunities: How to Land Your Dream Attorney Job in a Competitive Market In today's legal landscape, landing your dream attorney job can be an ambitious endeavor, considering the competitive nature of the field. Aspiring lawyers often find themselves navigating a challenging job market where opportunities are abundant, but so is the talent pool. To stand out and secure that coveted position, it's crucial to adopt a strategic and well-informed... (15 views)
Competitive Legal Salaries: How to Stay Ahead in the Job Market In today's dynamic and competitive legal job market, staying relevant and desirable as a legal professional is of paramount importance. The legal industry, like many others, is subject to constant changes, influenced by factors such as technological advancements, shifts in client demands, and evolving legal regulations. To thrive in this environment, legal professionals... (192 views)
Essential Steps to Take After Law School Graduation Graduating from law school is an exciting milestone that marks the completion of years of hard work and dedication. However, it also signifies the beginning of a new chapter, as law school merely lays the foundation for a legal career. The transition from the academic environment to the professional world can be both exhilarating and challenging. Understanding the steps to... (47 views)
Strategies to Streamline Your Personal Finances and Avoid Tedious Drudgery There's so much unpleasantness involved in keeping financial house — receipts that multiply like bunnies, the incessant parade of bills, ever-changing tax laws, retirement account acronyms, and a forest's worth of ''consumer agreements'' that become obsolete before trash pickup. I'm not sure which is more stressful: Trying to make smart money decisions or getting through... (4 views)
Securing a Summer Job: How to Take Advantage of Tips and Opportunities The first year of law school is a time when students acclimate to the law school community. Excelling both socially and academically are obvious first-year goals, but securing that first summer job is often near the top of the list of priorities for students. And while some students start the job hunt early on, others may wait until their second semester to begin their... (193 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)
5 Tips for Becoming a Successful Attorney to Make Your Mama Proud Forget to get your mom a gift this Mother's Day? LawCrossing has a few gift ideas that will make your last minute shopping easy and your mother a very happy lady. (6 views)
How to Land a Public Interest Job: Advice from Kelli Dunn Howard As a Legal Aid attorney in Austin, TX, Kelli Dunn Howard spends her days championing the rights of low-income tenants and the disabled. She can't imagine doing anything else. (158 views)
Legal Careers: Job Opportunities in the United States for Attorneys, Paralegals and Law Graduates This week, LawCrossing takes a look at some of the jobs in the legal field: what's out there currently and what to expect in the upcoming year. The situation continues to look good for paralegals, court reporters, and even IT professionals in the legal industry. (27 views)
Boost Your Job Search: Harness Self-Awareness and Positive Thinking Do you think you're not worthy of that job you're after? That attitude will often prove you right. Think positively, say the legal experts, and anything can happen. (165 views)
Adjusting to a New Job or Change of Employment Status: Tips for Dealing with the Transition Losing your job is never easy, but it does not have to mean the end of your career. Our recruiters offer some tips to make the transition from one job to the next as easy as possible. (73 views)
How to Increase Your Professional Marketability for Career Success in Law Sure, most of your legal credentials are set in stone, but all is not lost if they're not perfect. There are several things you can still do to increase your marketability and get that next job. (1644 views)
How Grade Point Averages Impact Hiring Decisions: When Grades Really Count in the Job Market The short answer: law school grades will most likely come up in every position you attempt to apply for throughout your career. The long answer: how much they matter depends on several factors. (3583 views)
Working as Public Defender in a Legal Firm : By Carla DeVelder, Career Services Director, University of Nebraska Law School Imagine what it must be like to be eight years out of law school and suddenly find yourself a peer of the very professors who once taught you. That was the position Carla DeVelder found herself in during the spring of 2003. (292 views)
Mary Harblin: Director of Career Services at Syracuse University College of Law | Expert Advice on Law Job Opportunities ''My background lends itself well to counseling students in finding employment, since I know the thought processes involved in ferreting out where they see themselves fitting and what type of employment will fit them personally.'' So says Mary Harblin of Syracuse University College of Law, our featured Career Counselor of the Week. (125 views)
University of Colorado School of Law: Patty Powell, Assistant Dean of Career Services | Career Tips & Insights With a sophisticated student body looking to her for advice, Patty Powell knows she has to go the extra mile to help her students get access to all of the opportunities their education and experiences afford them. She talked with LawCrossing about how she does just that. (95 views)
Find Career Success with Patricia White, Emory University School of Law Assistant Dean of Career Services Working for a top school is never easy since the expectations of the students are always very high. Patricia White expects a lot out of herself, too, though, as she seeks to spread Emory's excellent reputation further. (46 views)
Pepperdine University School of Law Director of Career Development Matt DeGrushe: Interview and Insight Many law students see their career services office as only available to the top students. Matt DeGrushe has worked hard to change that perception at Pepperdine through innovative programs that connect students with all types of employers. (62 views)
Develop Your Legal Career with Gary J. Greener, Assistant Dean for Career Services at Southwestern University School of Law Gary Greener talks with LawCrossing about his school's efforts to get the students involved with his office and the legal community to realize the quality of the education his students receive in a crowded area for law schools. (166 views)
Enhance Your Legal Career: Learn How to Make the Most of Working at McDermott Will & Emery McDermott, Will & Emery, founded in 1934 in Chicago as a tax practice, has evolved into a broad-based firm as it celebrates its 70th birthday in 2004. With 15 offices spanning the globe (including four in California) and employing more than 1,000 attorneys, the firm has experienced steady growth throughout the decades. (1063 views)
Specialize Your Legal Practice: Strategies and Tips from LawCrossing Should you specialize your legal practice? We offer some pros and cons to narrowing your practice to one particular field of the law and some tips on how best to go about it. (1505 views)
How to Conduct a Successful Long-Range Job Search - Tips from LawCrossing We offer tips to help you discover out-of-town resources and find new career opportunities when moving to a new geographical location. (79 views)
Secrets to Landing the Callback Interview: Proven Strategies for Job Seekers How to Get That Callback Interview Any job interview is stressful, but knowing you are only one in a continuous line of potential job candidates parading in front of the on-campus recruiters - and meeting up to 10 recruiters yourself in a single day - can be extremely wearing and disheartening. How do you impress the interviewers enough to be the one they want to see... (465 views)
How Law Firms are Increasing Minority Hiring to Develop a More Diverse Workforce Moral, business interests raise awareness of differences. (197 views)
Empathetic Listening: A Way to Achieve Professional Success as an Attorney If You Focus on the Needs of Others and Not Yourself, You Will Succeed. Following this simple rule can make your legal career more fulfilling (and successful). (41 views)