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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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The History and Uses of Legal Writs
From almost your first day of law school you will hear about writs. The writ was the first document filed in a...
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Friday Facts + Giveaway Winner!
Now you didn't really think I'd skip this week's Thursday Thoughts post did you? I just disguised it! Haha, I...
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Where Do Legal Cases Originate?
The basis of the American law school system is what is known as the case method. In the case method selected...
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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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Steps to Take Before Beginning Law School
Get started as early as possible. Four weeks is not too much time to give yourself as there is a lot to do. If...
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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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Historically Significant Cases that Served as Legal Turning Points
In order to give you background for modern law, you need to be exposed to old cases which established turning...
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The Significance of Common Law
American law has its roots in the law of England, and our legal system is known as Anglo-American law. When...
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Getting Justice without Adjudicators
When we hear the word "trial," most of us imagine a courtroom with a judge sitting on the bench and twelve...
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Strategies for Writing a Legal Brief
A brief is a formal, written argument, usually presented to an appellate court, for the purpose of convincing...
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Strategies for Studying for a Law School Exam
If you have studied your cases for the daily lecture far enough in advance, taken down what the professor has...
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Strategies for Studying for Class as a Law Student
Some law schools send their students casebook reading assignment schedules several weeks before classes start;...
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Strategies for Reading a Legal Case
Are you wondering what an actual case looks like? Here is one, Booth v. Merriam et al, 155 Mass. 521 (1892),...
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Preparing for Your Semester at Law School
You should set aside as much time as possible before school starts to prepare for your classes. Used properly,...
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Acquiring Legal Clients After Completing Law School
A good time to start is when you just get out of law school. Most likely, you will be single then, and other...
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Crafting Extraordinary Legal Exam Responses
A good answer to any essay exam question will usually include identification of the basic issues or doctrines...
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Creating Worthwhile Legal Briefs
It always helps if you can find some relevant and unusual historical information to fit into a law review...
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Navigating Law Books and Reports
Collected reports of cases are periodically published under the direct authority of the courts that issue...
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A Quick Glance At First Year Law School Courses: Torts
The course in torts covers the law applicable to wrongful acts to persons or property, by which others are...
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A Quick Glance at First Year Law School Courses: Property
Property is probably the most complicated first-year course. The concepts and subject matter are relatively...
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A Quick Glance at First Year Law School Courses: Crimes
Law school study of criminal law falls into three categories: substantive, procedural, and constitutional....
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A Quick Glance at First Year Law School Courses: Contracts
The big four courses of first-year law school are contracts, torts, crimes, and property. Generally speaking,...
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Developing Skills For a Successful Legal Career
Just as successful law firms set goals and devise strategies to achieve them, new lawyers must ask...
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