Get Positioned and Bill a Lot of Hours in Your Law Job
In your climb up the ladder of success, you'll find it essential to position yourself politically. If you're a...
129 viewsIn your climb up the ladder of success, you'll find it essential to position yourself politically. If you're a...
129 viewsAs a lawyer, you may discover that the tough, competitive nature of your work can affect the very values and...
29 viewsAfter you've worked in a law firm for a while, the possibility of partnership grows on you. It has its...
101 viewsThe money that you get from practicing law can propel you from the poverty you experienced during school into...
12 viewsIt takes them a long time to grade those bar exams. Many apply again and again.
17 viewsThe ABA rules for law schools used to say explicitly that "The law school may not offer to its students, for...
376 viewsIn case you're wondering, attorneys are called "the bar" because they have the privilege of entering beyond...
38 viewsYou could be a star, and simply sweep in and move the masses, or you could work behind die scenes, proceeding...
96 viewsLawyers praise the law for giving them a way of making a lot of loot. As the saying goes, money is the root of...
6 viewsIf you are, as I was, one of those law students "in the middle of your class", naturally and understandably,...
69 viewsAn attorney, as a vital component of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the...
198 viewsThere are many lawyers who have started with ordinary law firm career track from junior to senior associate to...
9 viewsWith reference to one estimate only 0.2 percent fail to become admitted to the bar after passing the exam, I...
7 viewsAs a lawyer, you may discover that the tough, competitive nature of your work can affect the very values and...
5 viewsThere has been lot of written about what are the challenges that a young attorney has to face. But when you're...
4 viewsTo help with my mountains of paperwork, I sometimes enlisted the assistance of two different paralegals,...
90 viewsFor me, the people with whom I worked were the most important and interesting aspect of practicing law. As I...
12 viewsAs I settled into the role of attorney, I found myself briefly lacking tangible goals. I'd gotten so used to...
14 viewsIn New York and most other states, the bar exam is not the only requirement you must fulfill in order to be...
30 viewsI began my full-time studies for the bar exam in early December. "Full-time'' meant 14 to 18 hours a day,...
6 viewsAs if my personal situation weren't debilitating enough, I couldn't help wondering what happened to my bar...
31 viewsI finished law school in the requisite three years. The bar exam promised to take only a few months from my...
63 viewsOur legal system has now reached a point where, if you're a client, your basic expectations of justice are so...
48 viewsNot everyone has problems with this, of course, or we wouldn't have many lawyers. The fact is attorneys have a...
8 viewsWe find a lot of lawyers working in partnership and networking. All the big firms are partnership and offer...
25 viewsThe law touches virtually every aspect of not only American society as a whole but of our lives as...
35 viewsTo practice law in most states, you must graduate from an ABA-approved or state-accredited law school, sit for...
557 viewsA career as an attorney is one of the most coveted and sought-after vocations especially in the US. Without...
36 viewsWhat is it like to practice law? You would think that the practice of law would be like the law school...
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