Career Alternatives
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Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Technology
What's Possible: 3 Tips For Building Professional Relationships
Even in a world of dashboard-based outside counsel relationships, the legal business will always be driven by personal connections -- so here's how to develop stronger connections with your own clients and colleagues. -
Career Alternatives, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
The Road Not Taken: Closing In
If you're trying to find a non-legal job, you're going to have to rewrite your résumé entirely. In-house columnist Celeste Harrison Forst has some advice on how to do that. - Sponsored
Attention Buyer: Not All Legal AI Models Are Created Equal
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Career Alternatives, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
The Road Not Taken: Getting Closer
You have skills, you have talents, and identifying how those skills and talents provide value to non-legal employers gets you closer to finding your way out of the law.
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Career Alternatives, Technology
alt.legal: Legal Innovation Is NOT Just Legal Technology -- How Adherence LLC Built a Niche
Let's meet two former Biglaw attorneys who built a new business (and business model) to help a underserved client segment -- without writing any new computer code. -
Career Alternatives, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
The Road Not Taken: Getting There
How can you find a non-law job? Here's some advice from in-house columnist Celeste Harrison Forst. -
Career Alternatives, Technology
Why Legal Entrepreneurs Should Be Unreasonable, But Not Irrational
Here are three attributes vital for startup success, according to lawyer turned entrepreneur David Perla, now president of Bloomberg Law. -
Career Alternatives
How To Go From Law School To A Career In Media: A Conversation With HuffPo's Graham Nelson
Are you looking to leave Biglaw? Read this. -
Career Alternatives
3 Things I Wish I Knew About Navigating A Career Transition
Jeena Cho shares some of the things she learned on her journey to a new career, and she hopes it's helpful to you. - Sponsored
Mitigating M&A Cyber Risk: Pre- & Post-Acquisition Due Diligence
Why M&A cybersecurity due diligence? -
Career Alternatives, Small Law Firms
What Do You Desire? Looking Forward To 2016
Last week, columnist Jeena Cho made the decision to quit law. It's a transition that she knew she needed to make for many years. Will you make the same move in 2016? -
Career Alternatives, Technology
alt.legal: The First Serial Legal Tech Entrepreneur
So you think you have the guts to quit your cushy traditional legal job and brave the uncertainty of legal entrepreneurship? -
Canada, Career Alternatives
The View From Up North: Biglaw Escapee Now Spends His Days Making TV And Films
Columnist Steve Dykstra would like to introduce you to someone who escaped Biglaw to something cool. -
Career Alternatives, Technology
alt.legal: Going Viral In Legal -- Everyday She’s Hustling
If you don’t like feeling uncomfortable and enjoy using the words “Please find attached,” you probably want to stay in Biglaw -- but here's some advice or the rest of you. -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, In-House Counsel, Technology
alt.legal: The Spooky Specter Of A Return To Practice
For those of you who have left law firms, what might bring you back to Biglaw?
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Attention Buyer: Not All Legal AI Models Are Created Equal
Legal Gen AI – Uncover the best solution for your firm.
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Mitigating M&A Cyber Risk: Pre- & Post-Acquisition Due Diligence
Why M&A cybersecurity due diligence?
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New Report - Are Small Firms Achieving Their Legal Tech Goals?
In this new report of more than 100 professionals at small and smaller midsize law firms, iManage and Above the Law shed new light on…
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The Ethical use of Generative AI
What’s the key to empowering your legal team with the efficiency and insight of AI while protecting the integrity of their work? Read this article…
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How To Maximize Productivity With Westlaw Precision With CoCounsel
Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel helps legal professionals get a faster start to their research. Over time, that added productivity can lead to higher-quality research and…
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Career Alternatives, Technology
From Wachtell Lipton To The Startup World: An Interview With Stephanie Lee
Would you leave a leading law firm to work on an exciting but risky new venture? -
Career Alternatives, Law Professors, Law Schools
From Tenured Law Professor To... Stand-Up Comedian? An Interview With Liz Glazer
A law professor leaves legal academia to pursue her passion. -
Career Alternatives, Technology
Life Imitates Alt: Biglaw Habits Die Hard At IP Startup, Alt Legal
Not everyone leaves Biglaw to improve work/life balance, according to Nehal Madhani, who educated me on this topic – mostly through emails at 4 a.m. I learned that a grueling 2,400-hours-a-year work schedule is nothing when you are working for yourself to make the legal system better – and Madhani’s loving every minute of it. […] -
Career Alternatives, Health Care / Medicine, Public Interest
Serving The Public Interest Outside The Practice Of Law: An Interview With Jenny Mosier
Jenny Mosier left a high-powered Justice Department job to take on a new and important mission. -
Career Alternatives, Job Searches
alt.legal -- New Year, New You
If you're thinking about switching jobs or even leaving the legal profession entirely, here are some helpful resources. -
Books, Career Alternatives
alt.legal: Conscious Uncoupling . . . With Your Law Firm
How can you make a successful transition out of law while leaving the door open for a future return, just in case? -
Books, Career Alternatives, Technology
alt.legal: Taking It Offline -- What Happens When A Biglaw Associate Quits The Internet
What's it like to transition from attorney to published author? Allow this former Biglaw attorney to explain it to you.