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Planning and Managing Student Loan Debt Repayments Part-1

This series of articles is not about how you should take a student loan, or how much you should take, or...

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Real Challenges of Working in a Large Law Firm

When trying to understand what it is like to work in a large law firm, I once came across this smart quip:...

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Know Your Job If You Intend To Keep It

Your chances of career progress, appreciation and retention increase when you succeed in satisfying...

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Paying for Your Degree: A Guide to Financial Aid

Not sure how to pay for three years of law school? Money doesn't grow on trees, but it does come in the form...

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Practicing in ... Washington, D.C.

The hottest places to live, work, drink, dine, and play in the nation's capital.

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Practicing in ... Chicago

Big firms, cheap living, killer pizza.

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Ask the Ethicist: Client Confidentiality Rules

When you spill the beans to your spouse, should you 'fess up?

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The Professor-Clerk Problem

Professors kiss up to Supreme Court justices to land clerkships for their students. It's a bad idea. Here's...

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Working with a Legal Recruiter: Happy Hunting

A good headhunter can help you make a wise lateral move. Here's how.

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Success as a First-Year Associate: Up and Away

Want to step up fast at your first law-firm job? Rise to the top of the heap? Scale great heights? Veteran...

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The 2001 Golden Monkeys: Law-Related Television

The Emmys, the Golden Globes, People's Choice, Humanitas, MTV, ALMA-everyone else has television awards. We...

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Laser Eye Surgery: Seeing Red

Laser eye surgery is on the rise-but so are those unsightly malpractice suits.

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Early Investing: Get Rich Slow

It's never too early to start squirreling away your newfound salary. Find answers to your most pressing...

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Changes in the Social Perception of a ''Successful Lawyer''

Almost imperceptibly, three terrible socio-economic waves have struck the legal profession and changed its...

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Low-Cost or Free Online Legal Research Resources

Often in small firms, corporate counsels have to handle a multitude of tasks and not all businesses can afford...

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Reverse Brainstorming in Everyday Legal Practice

First off, ''Reverse Brainstorming'' has become management jargon today, but it is a process used over...

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Are You Mistaking a Comfort Zone for Job-satisfaction?

Attorneys, like others in institutionalized professions, become accustomed to surroundings, develop patterns...

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Don't Try Your Patience, Test It

Patience is said to be one of the greatest virtues. That's time-tested wisdom. However, few of us take...

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Don’t Think Yourself into a Loser

Don’t let the bad news get to you. As a law student you’d already be aware that an average law student...

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How Does 2012 Measure Up for GCCs?

I remember an article I read in 2007, where the vice president of Hughes & Sloan Inc had commented, ''For...

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Legal Risk Management: A Quick Overview

There's a lot of research and literature out there on risk management and business risk management but...

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Can you get a job in a LA biglaw firm before clearing the CA bar exam?

Question:I’m a third year associate currently practicing in New York but I’d like to make a move to Los...

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Law Students Lose Interest in ‘Public Interest’ after Law School

There is a great amount of literature that proves that while a substantial number of students entering law...

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You Are Nothing More Than another Corporate Employee – Take It or Leave It

Gone are the days when corporations went out of their way to retain in-house counsel and allow them special...

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Does being long-term unemployed hurt chances of getting back in the legal field?

Question:For those attorneys who have been laid off or otherwise told that they must find alternate...

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Workplace Discrimination Remains Strong

In an ideal world, we would have reached a point in the modern workplace where discrimination issues no longer...

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Can I use more than one legal recruiter in my job search?

Question:I am about to start looking for a new job, and I am entertaining the idea of using a legal recruiter....

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What Attorneys Can Learn From Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs will be remembered for many things, not the least of which is the technology he conceived. Also...