Career Alternatives
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Career Alternatives, Hotties, Law Schools, Pictures, Pornography
Another Law Student in Playboy's Pages
Last year, discussing the surprising success of clothing consultants in the recession, we wrote: “When the going gets tough, the tough get new wardrobes.” Maybe we should amend that statement: “When the going gets tough, the tough ditch their wardrobes.” Faced with the dismal legal job market, yet another law student has decided to earn […] -
Career Alternatives, Education / Schools, Job Searches
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Admissions Consulting and Academic Coaching
In these difficult times for the legal profession, it’s more important than ever to know all your options. So we resume our series on career alternatives for attorneys — jobs for J.D. holders that don’t involve working as a Biglaw associate or contract attorney. In a prior post, we discussed the career alternative of entrepreneurship. […] - Sponsored
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Career Alternatives, Federal Government, Job Searches, Law Schools
Another Federal Government Opportunity: The Presidential Management Fellows Program
As we mentioned yesterday, some jobs with the federal government — an excellent refuge from the economic storm — are disappearing even before the application period closes. So we’ll tell you about this next opportunity even before the application period opens (which is tomorrow). A tipster tells us: I’m a longtime reader of ATL and […]
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Bad Ideas, Career Alternatives, Gay, Pornography
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Gay Porn Star?
We’ve written extensively in the past about law students and lawyers taking their clothes off for the camera. For whatever reason, most have been women. For example: an associate from Thacher Proffitt (& Wood — hehe), who previously posed for Playboy; a U. Miami law school graduate, who also posed for Playboy; a UNC law […] -
Career Alternatives, Craigslist, Media and Journalism, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Social Media Director?
Are you a laid-off lawyer who has been spending way too much time on Facebook? Here’s a way to turn that “résumé gap” into job experience: Director of Social Media Medium-sized Atlanta law firm seeks candidates interested in a part-time or full-time social media position. The primary responsibility of the Social Media Director will be […] -
Career Alternatives, Kids, Pregnancy / Paternity
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Baby Maker?
A female associate at a large law firm recently sent us a message along these lines (we’ve tweaked and paraphrased her original email in places): In these tough economic times, people are (1) having trouble finding jobs as they come out of law school, (2) recently laid-off, or (3) miserable in the jobs they still […] -
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Farmer?
When the going gets tough, the tough get…. hoeing? On this morning’s open thread regarding 3L recruiting, one commenter recommended that instead of applying for legal jobs — perhaps a futile task in this economy — 3Ls should “[t]ry subsistence farming instead.” Good idea! From the Associated Press: They are lawyers, factory workers, insurance adjusters, […] -
Career Alternatives, Entertainment Law, Layoffs, Music
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Band Manager
If you’re leaving Biglaw and moving to New England to innkeep is not your thing, maybe you should consider moving to Los Angeles to promote music. The American Lawyer has an interesting piece on a laid-off first-year associate, Brandon Dorsky. He was among the batch of Pillsbury Winthrop associates whose departures were inadvertently leaked by […] - Sponsored
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: New England Innkeeper
Welcome back to our occasional series on career alternatives for attorneys — i.e., things you can do with a law degree that don’t involve working for a law firm as an associate or contract attorney. If you feel like your knack for being hospitable is wasted in the law, you might be interested in this […] -
Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Paralegals
Can't find work? Paralegal for Weil Gotshal
The legal job market is a little dicey right now, leading some law grads to question the worth of their shiny new J.D. degree. Suffolk Law grads — and not just the ones who can’t get dates — are really questioning the value of their degrees, after an ill-timed job advertisement from Weil Gotshal & […] -
Career Alternatives, Job Searches
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: A Panel Discussion
The other night, a commenter with insomnia wrote: Is there someone living in Flint, Michigan who will exchange their $18,000 house for my worthless JD? I will even take over the payments from your inflated mortgage. My piece of paper does not even provide shelter for my skinny ass. In exchange you could be a […] -
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Career Alternatives for (Laid-Off) Lawyers: Interior Designer
Every once in while, we like to explore career alternatives for attorneys, i.e., things you can do with a law degree that don’t involve Biglaw or contract attorney work. These days, we’ve come to think of the series of open threads as things you might do if you can’t find Biglaw or contract work. Do […] -
Career Alternatives, Food, Job Searches, Law Schools
Cupcake Stop Is a Great Detour from the Legal Profession
Last week, we brought you the story of an intrepid New York Law School graduate who started his own business. Think cupcakes on wheels. Today, the proprietor of Cupcake Stop, Lev Ekster, stopped by our office with his delicious wares. Yumyumyumyumyum. Ed. note: For the record, I really hate donuts. I don’t even particularly like […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Career Alternatives, Food, Job Searches, Law Schools
Comfort Food for the Economy
When students at New York Law School can’t find work, sometimes they resort to tearing the clothes off of 1Ls. So we applaud Lev Ekster, an NYLS alumnus, for his non-violent approach to the economic crisis: Recent law school grad Lev Ekster is going from court to cupcakes. When the New York Law School student […] -
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Career Alternatives: Poker is a Better Bet than Yale Law School
Lawyers and poker go together like rare steak and red wine. You need many of the same logical skills, interspersed with an ability to take managed risks. With the legal job market looking like a busted straight that you shouldn’t have chased in the first place, maybe it’s time for a different game? Vanessa Selbst, […] -
Career Alternatives, Hotties, UNC Law
UNC Law School Disavows the Disavowal of Wannabe Bunny
For those just tuning in, earlier today, we wrote about Stephanie Haney, a 2L at UNC who hopes to be one of Playboy’s Girls of the ACC. (See Career Alternatives for Law Students: Playboy Bunny.) After our initial post went up, Maxine Eichner — a professor at UNC School of Law — emailed Above the […] -
Career Alternatives, Hotties, Law Schools, Pornography, UNC Law
Career Alternatives for Law Students: Playboy Bunny
Despite the rise in applications to law schools, many current law school students might be lamenting their decision to pursue a J.D. There’s more news about Biglaw firms firing than hiring these days. Summer associate programs are shrinking in size, being shortened, or being cut altogether. Start dates for 3Ls are being pushed back to […] -
Career Alternatives, Videos
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Bellydancer?
Back in rosier economic times, we started a series of open threads on career alternatives for attorneys, i.e., things you can do with a law degree that don’t involve Biglaw or contract work. These days, we’re starting to think of the series as things you might do if you can’t find Biglaw or contract work. […] -
Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Layoffs, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Can't find work? Start your own firm.
The number of attorneys looking for jobs continues to grow each month. And we can’t help running into them in New York, ground zero for attorney layoffs. We asked one Thacher refugee whether he had thought about banding together with other jobless legal eagles to start their own venture. “Too junior, not interested,” he replied. […] -
Career Alternatives, Pornography
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Erotica Writer/Editor?
In our occasional series on career alternatives for attorneys — i.e., things you can do with a law degree that don’t involve working for a law firm as an associate or contract attorney — we’ve already touched on the writer/author career option. But when we happened upon How I Went From an NYU Law Student […]