Beginning Your Search for a Career in a Non-Legal Field
By now you probably have a feeling that obtaining a non-legal position that will allow you to utilize the...
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Selling Yourself and Your Legal Skills To a Potential Employer
Applicants for positions often feel that the qualities the employer is looking for represent some sort of an...
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Pros And Cons Of An Alternative Legal Career For Lawyers
One of the inescapable facts of any career decision is that it will have both its pros and its cons. Since...
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More Alternative Career Choices for Lawyers
The foregoing areas are the ones in which most legally trained persons are currently filling non-legal...
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Lawyers Finding Jobs in the Security Industry
If the word "security" conjures up a picture of a lonely guard at a plant gate, you are undoubtedly wondering...
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Lawyers Finding Jobs in the Marketing Industry
This area is the cornerstone upon which the company bases its whole existence. Without the sale of its...
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Purchasing and Contract Administration Jobs for Lawyers
It may seem a little odd to join purchasing, which is concerned with the assembling of supplies, equipment and...
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Lawyers Finding Jobs as Coporate Secretaries
Long before legally trained persons were working in the regulatory compliance area, lawyers were involved in...
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Lawyers Choose Non-Legal Careers
In most large corporations the number of legally trained persons employed in management and administrative...
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Why General Counsel Support ''Convergence'' in External Law Firms
From the middle of the 1990s, more and more large businesses have started discarding the trend of having a...
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Things Are Looking Up For Law Firm Associates
This holiday season is looking good for law firm associates. It seems, the drought is ultimately over with...
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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...
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What a New Survey Says about Women in Law
Equality in the workplace is perking up in the legal industry, according to the 2012 Working Mother &...
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The Legal Profession is Low in Diversity and only Slowly Growing
A new study looking at diversity in the legal profession has discovered it remains lamentably poor. Despite...
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Academic Careers for JDs
With the notoriously difficult legal market nowadays, a lot of JDs are considering what alternatives they have...
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KPMG Survey Shows Role of GCs Growing Beyond ''Necessary Evil''
In a recent survey report released in November 2012 by KPMG, named “Beyond the Law,” and reporting...
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General Counsel Having Better Pay in 2012: Equilar Survey
The 2012 In-Depth Top General Counsel Compensation Report published by Equilar, a well-recognized executive...
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Who is a ''Supervisor'' for Employer Liability? All Eyes Are Glued to Vance v. Ball State University
For an in-house counsel vicarious employer liability for the acts of a supervisor is an important issue and...
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Planning to Pursue a Legal Career In The United States? Painting a Realistic Picture
The past few years have witnessed tremendous economic turbulence around the world. The economy, broadly...
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The Changing Face of Law Firm Compensation
The recently released Partner Compensation Survey, 2012, by Major, Lindsey & Africa, exhibits some definitive...
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Attorney-Client Privilege and the Ohio State University Scandal
Attorney-client privilege is a serious matter and not to be trifled with, as Columbus lawyer Christopher T....
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Fashion Law: An Inside Look
Arguably, fashion law has been around since the establishment of the first fashion house; it was just not an...
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The Rise and Fall of In-house Counsel Salaries, 2012
In-house counsel almost always have a cash component in their salaries and another component that includes...
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Are You Ready for the Bench: The Implications of Low Judicial Salaries
Many attorneys consider the career option of becoming a federal judge, or at least spend some time thinking...
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Diversity in Law Firms - Myth vs. Reality
Diversity has been one of the most discussed topics in law firms over the past few decades. Firms like Skadden...
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The Generation Y Legal Professionals
Though the distinction is a bit questionable because it does not presuppose a homogenous class with uniform...
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In-House Counsel Salaries
As the latest NALP reports have already shown, the percentage of law graduates in jobs requiring an attorney...
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Why Go For a Non-Lawyer Career with a JD
With one lawyer in every 247 citizens in U.S., going for a non-lawyer career with a JD is a question that...
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Challenges of Shifting In-House From a Law Firm
As an attorney in private practice, it might seem that an in-house job may be preferable to the billable...
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