Preparing Yourself for a Future Job Search
No job is guaranteed to be permanent. In fact, very few people remain in the same job for the same employer...
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Using the Job Club Approach to Find a New Job
The Job-Club approach to finding a job works for a broad range of jobs, including unskilled, semiskilled,...
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Finding Job Leads from Business Directories
Most job seekers use the telephone only occasionally, but the Job-Club method relies on it heavily.
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Contacting Previous Employers for Jobs and Job Leads
From the Job-Club point of view, a previous employer can offer especially valuable assistance in your job...
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Cold Calling Your Way Into a New Job
Here you are at your desk, staring at your job leads list, which lists the names, addresses, and telephone...
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Friends Helping Friends Find Jobs and Advance Careers
The usual method: out of work but self-reliant Most job seekers avoid using friends, feeling prodded by the...
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Finding The Right Geographical Location for Your Legal Career
When it comes time to decide where to start practicing, look for a place where you believe you will enjoy the...
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Determining Your Legal Practice Area
Most law students plan to practice a particular type of law after they graduate. Unfortunately, reality soon...
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Balancing Professional and Business Responsibilities at a Law Firm
The responsibility of new lawyers is to become able professionals. This requires the associate to learn about...
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How Law Firms And In-House Departments View Paralegals
As a paralegal, you may believe that it is not necessary for you to know how a law firm operates, what the...
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Preparing for a Paralegal Job Search
A paralegal job search is a little like a baseball game. You're the batter; the prospective law firm is the ...
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How to Negotiate a Good Offer from a Law Firm
Congratulations! Finally, an offer that you can seriously consider! Up to this point, you've focused on...
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How To Get Paralegal Work Online
We never thought we'd see the day when we welcomed a mouse into the house. Yet, mouse, modem, monitor-the...
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Seven Tips For Paralegals In A Job Search
Congratulations! You've passed the Gatekeeper! Now you're presented with the opportunity to get in and sell...
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Targeting Your Paralegal Resume to Both Humans and Computers
It used to be that writing your resume was pretty routine: use "action" words, white or buff paper, keep it to...
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How to Choose And Get Into A Law School That Is Perfect For You
The decision to become a lawyer and the decision that accompanies it, to apply to law school, are two of the...
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Investigating the Legal Job Market
THE LAW-JOB SEARCH BEGINS WITH INFORMATION-GATHERING. Assemble as much information about your areas of...
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Getting a Legal Job Interview as a 1L or 2L
IF FIRST- AND SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS ("Fs" AND "Ss") HAVE A more trying fight than third-year students in the...
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Preparing for Firm Interviews as a Law Student
THE INTERVIEW IS THE CULMINATION OF THE INITIAL PHASES OF the search - investigation and application - and is...
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Strategies for Starting Your First Law Firm Job
Having turned The last corner, you may coast a while. Be vigilant in appearance, however, throughout the...
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Accepting The Law Firm Job Offer
The End Of The Job Hunt Is The Offer, Or, Gloriously, Numerous Offers.
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What to Do When You Lose Your First Legal Job
It is common for young lawyers to change jobs after one to three years. In urban areas, especially on the East...
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Avoid Misrepresentation During Law Firm Interviews
Fairly Represent Your Status. Emphasis On Favorable Aspects Of Your Record, And The Creative Use Of Your...
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Handling Rejection After an Interview with a Law Firm
The Hunt Often Drags Indefinitely, Sometimes Beyond Graduation. Results Are Often Thin And Not Sustaining.
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Getting Job Interviews at Law Firms in Different Cities
ON MANY INTERVIEWING TRIPS, YOU EXIST IN A CITY FOR THREE days with no focus but the interviews and not much...
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Female Law Students and the Legal Job Search
WOMEN MAY HAVE LOST SOMEWHAT THE COMPETITIVE ADVAN-tage gained during the last ten years from the "reverse...
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Secretaries as a Resource During Your Legal Job Search
THESE PEOPLE ARE VERY USEFUL DURING THE LAW JOB HUNT. THEY can also serve as enormous obstacles. Luck and some...
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What does it mean for an attorney to work in admiralty and martime law
Admiralty law or maritime law (the terms are used interchangeably) refers to the law that covers navigation...
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Your First-Year Law Student Job Search Time Table
The banker Walter Wristen once said that good judgment comes from experience and that experience comes from...
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Guide to Making a Lateral Move as a Legal Associate
In the turbulent job market of the 1990s, lateral hiring had become a common phenomenon in law firm circles....
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