Associate Advice
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Ask the Experts, Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Lawyers, Pre-Law
From the Career Files: Getting Your Work Done (Part One)
A member of the ATL Career Center's team of expert contributors offers some practical advice for associates on how to get their work done. -
Ask the Experts, Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files, In-House Counsel, Lawyers
From the Career Files: What to Consider When Considering an In-House Counsel Position
A member of the ATL Career Center's team of expert contributors offers some practical advice for associates considering careers as in-house counsel. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Ask the Experts, Associate Advice, Biglaw, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From the Career Files: Five Steps to Delivery of a Written Assignment
A member of the ATL Career Center's team of expert contributors offers some practical advice for new associates on delivering work product to their supervising attorneys.
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Ask the Experts, Associate Advice, Biglaw, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants
From the Career Files: How to Supervise a Secretary or Assistant
Here are some suggestions from our Career Files for working with secretaries and paralegals. -
Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From the Career Files: They Say It's Your Birthday
Learn more about dealing with generational differences in the workplace with the help of the ATL Career Center. -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Partner Issues, Screw-Ups, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: Call the Carrier
Do partners blow minor mistakes out of proportion? Or is there is a reason for this? -
Ask the Experts, Associate Advice, Biglaw, Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Lawyers
From the Career Files: A Dozen Suggestions for New Lawyers
Are you a young lawyer looking for some practical career advice? Here are twelve tips from a longtime law firm partner. -
Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files
From the Career Files: Writing for Partners
Learn more about how associates can write for partners with the help of the ATL Career Center. - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: Apples and Oranges
What are the real differences when moving “From Biglaw to Boutique”? -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Partner Issues, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: Your Most Important Client
Associates make the mistake of not understanding who is truly their most important client: the partner for whom they are working... -
Associate Advice, Drinking, Job Searches, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Technology, Trials
Non-Sequiturs: 08.07.12
* A great, great piece by Kashmir Hill on what happens to your Facebook data when you are suspected of murder. [Not So Private Parts / Forbes] * So now the Tulsa law dean is making it sound like the babysitting gig was just one of the many heroic efforts Tulsa undertakes to make sure students can make ends meet while in law school. This from a school that charges $32,056 per year plus another $7,993 for room and board for the privilege of attending the #99 law school in the land. Oh, but presenting babysitting opportunities is a way that the administration can help. [TU College of Law Blog] * This is how 90% of my conversations go when somebody asks me if they should go to law school. The other 10% end in fisticuffs and comfort eating. [Constitutional Daily] * If a law professor uses a hypo this fall based on 50 Shades of Grey (affiliate link), please whip it out (your camera phone) and give us a load (of that hilarious video). [Law Librarian Blog] * Apple and Samsung: they kind of need each other to bring balance to the force. And don’t forget to check out Chris Danzig’s Twitter feed for more trial updates. [iDownloadBlog] * What does one Jones Day hiring partner think interviewees should never do at lunch? Check out his interview on Bloomberg Law below… -
Associate Advice, Job Searches
Embarrassment of Riches, Class of 2011 Graduate Has TWO Job Offers
A person from the class of 2011 has more than one job offer? This is not a drill... -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: Client Contact
"Client contact" is not necessarily a bed of roses, but that doesn't mean it's not important.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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How Generative AI Will Improve Legal Service Delivery
Learn how emerging tools will likely change and enhance the work of lawyers for years to come in this new report.
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Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Associate Advice, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: You Are Not Your Hours
You are a unique individual, with special attributes. You are not your billable hours. -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Job Searches, Lateral Moves, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: Writing on the Wall
If you’re planning on leaving your firm, don’t be obvious about it. If you really want your departure memo to come as a surprise, don’t let your colleagues read the writing on the wall.... -
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Career Center: How to Thrive in a Difficult Work Environment
When you’re stuck at a job you loathe, what can you do to not only survive, but even thrive in it? Try these tips, provided to you by the experienced recruiters at Lateral Link.... -
Associate Advice, Bar Exams, Biglaw, Sex, Small Law Firms, Women's Issues
Size Matters: Small-Firm Spinsters, I Have Good News
Small-firm columnist Valerie Katz cannot really offer any more advice about how to find a job other than networking, networking, and going on informational interviews. Oh, and occasionally allowing yourself a good cry. She can, however, offer some priceless advice for how to get married thanks to a recent New York Times article.... -
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Career Center: For Fifth Year Associates, It’s Decision Time
This week, Lateral Link Director Tricia McGrath shares the inside scoop on what fifth years need to do to make sure they stay on track to become partner, and avoid the pitfalls that come with being passed over continually. Law firm economics changed substantially over the past decade. Law firms now run like “businesses,” in […] -
Associate Advice, Drinking, Job Searches
How Alcohol Can Help You Network
There's a list that's been going around the past two days that purports to be A Drink-by-Drink Guide for networking events. Don't get your hopes up. It's not really drinking advice for legal networking events. It's regular advice for legal networking events that happens to use the word "drink" -- instead of "level" or "number" -- to demarcate the five tips in the article. Here's Elie's advice on how to look cool and confident while knocking back a few without getting so sloshed you end up on Above the Law in the morning.... -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Money, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: Looks Like Rain
The traditional method of building a book of business no longer works for most associates. Firms now sometimes go so far as to actively discourage associates from forming too-strong relationships with clients, lest the associate leave and take the client with them. With these challenges, how can an associate ever hope to make the rain they will need if they want to open their own firm?