How to Find the Right Law School for You
Summary: Learn which resources you should utilize to determine which law school is the best fit for you.
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How to Determine if the Law Firm Where You Were a Summer Associate Is a Place in Which You Really Want to Work
Summary: This article describes how you can know whether or not a firm where you were a summer associate is...
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How Obsessive Organization Can Make or Break Your Legal Career
Summary: Learn the importance of keeping documents, emails, letters, and other information organized and...
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How Law Schools Determine Who to Admit: Inside the Admissions Process of Law Schools
Summary: Applying to law school can be a daunting task, but this article eliminates some of the confusion and...
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Help! I'm Drowning! What to Do When You've Got Too Much Legal Work (or Too Little)
Summary: Every attorney feels swamped from time to time, but when people knock on your door with another...
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Getting a Job as a First-Year Law Student
This article contains advice for law students on landing their first job—and what to do if they can’t.
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First Year Interviewing, Job Search, and Career Advice for Law Students
This article contains advice for law students on landing their first job—and what to do if they can’t.
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Eleven Pieces of Powerful Advice for Associates from a Legal Secretary with Over 30 Years of Experience
This article contains advice from an experienced legal secretary about how to best succeed in a law firm.
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The Two Most Important Rules for Associates to Get Along with Supervising Attorneys
This article gives rules and guidelines for interacting with your superior in order to put you in a position...
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From Big Biller to Part-Time Attorney: Becoming a Part-Time Attorney
A contributor details his shifting focus in his career and how he went about striking the perfect balance...
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Demand for Temp-to-Hire Legal Secretaries on the Rise
Summary: This article documents the increasing demand of temp-to-hire legal secretaries, an indicator that the...
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Areas of Specialization for Paralegals
Summary: Paralegals have a multitude of areas of specialization to choose from, including environmental law,...
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An Associate’s Guide to Social Functions with the Firm
This article describes in detail the dos—and the don’ts—that you need to know before heading off to a...
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Advice for Summer Associates about Handling Secretaries, Recruiting Coordinators, and Anybody Else at the Office Who Isn’t a Lawyer
This article provides summer associates with in depth advice about how to interact with legal staff to make...
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Advice for New Paralegals: What Every Paralegal Must Know When They Begin a New Paralegal Job
Summary: This article uses real experiences from paralegals to illustrate the job and its processes to those...
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Top Questions Lawyers Ask about Proper Language Use
Summary: A list of common spelling and grammar questions relating to the legal field.
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Ask LawCrossing
Summary: Some write for advice, some need to vent, and some don’t like me very much.
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Law Firm Gift Giving
Summary: In fact, law schools would serve their students well by offering a class in law firm gift giving and...
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Rules Of Thumb for Your Law Firm Job Interview
Summary: While much has been said about the interviewing process, the focus is almost always on the job seeker...
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The Lawyer’s Motto: Be Unprepared
Summary: The idea behind this approach is to teach students to think on their feet by having them brief cases...
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The Judge Is Presiding
Summary: There are, however, those of us lawyers who do exclusively transactional work and don’t even know...
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Phone Etiquette for Lawyers
Summary: Once lawyers achieve a certain prominence (either in the legal community or in their own minds), they...
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The Firm's Annual Summer Charade
There are only two seasons of the year at the firm. The first season begins in September and ends in May. The...
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“Leave Law Behind” Helps Attorneys Find a New Career
Summary: A legal career is not always the best fit for some attorneys. Once they find that out, they need...
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Lawyers Suffering from Depression Can Get Help Here
Summary: Lawyers with Depression is a resource for any attorney struggling with the demands of their job and...
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Coaching for Lawyers with Daniel Roberts
Summary: Lawyers need coaches to not only be better at their job, but to keep doing their job like everyone...
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