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Career Center: Tips on Networking Within Your Firm to Advance Your Career (Part 1)
As soon as a young attorney gets a job offer and begins working, networking typically takes a backseat until a new job search begins. This fact is not surprising. Junior associates must maintain high billable hours, participate in countless training and CLE events, and still attend various non-billable firm events. While networking and the daily […] -
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Career Center Survey: Is Associate Morale on the Mend?
Good news: the recession is officially over– and actually has been since June 2009, according to a group of economists. Are Biglaw associates everywhere breathing a collective sigh of relief? Or does the recovering economy have little effect on associate morale? This week, in our ATL / Lateral Link survey, we ask whether morale among […] - Sponsored
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Career Center: Navigating the Callback - 10 Tips for a Successful Interview
Not too long ago, when law firms used to supersize their summer associate classes and make offers to anyone who had a pulse, callback interviews were a mere formality. Today’s post-recessionary firms are understandably more careful about hiring, and as a result,the callback interview has become a sine qua non for getting into Biglaw. We talked with […]
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Career Center: Are You Deciding Where to Summer?
Summer associate survey results have been out for a while. If you’re trying to decide where you’d like to be a summer associate, be sure to check out the profiles below, to see which firms scored big with its summers — and which firms could use a little improvement. Before accepting that summer associate offer, […] -
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Career Center: Summer Programs to Approach With Caution
If you’re looking for brutally honest opinions about the summer programs at the top law firms, head on over to the Career Center. Here are some examples of what you’ll find there: Although this firm had one of the largest summer associate classes in 2010, a high offer rate in 2009, and no start date […] -
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Career Center: More Summer Program Profiles
About to head out for that call-back interview? See if that firm is one of the profiled firms listed below. While you’re at it, go to the Career Center, and browse through the profiles for more in-depth information on all the major firms. The summer associates at this firm describe the full-time attorneys as “extremely […] -
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Career Center: Feel-Good Firm Summer Programs
Want to know where the happy summer associates work? More importantly, want to know if the happy summer associates eventually turn into happy full-time associates? Click on the Career Center links below to find out. Bragging rights go to this Wall Street firm’s summer associates, who say they do substantive and high-profile work, but have […] -
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Career Center: Taking Control of Your Career
From time to time, we “go live” with the Career Center resources, to give you access to firsthand advice from the hiring partners and in-house counsel at major law firms and companies. Our next opportunity for this type of professional development will be Wednesday, September 22, 2010 in Miami, Florida. If you are in the […] - Sponsored
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Career Center: Trivial Pursuit, Summer Associate Edition
Do you know which firms are described by their summer associates in the blurbs below? Check out how each firm fared in our 2010 Summer Associate Survey by clicking on each firm below, or by visiting the Career Center homepage and searching by name for the firm you are curious about. Summer associates at this […] -
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Career Center: A Resource for Researching Large Law Firms
Just a reminder that the 2010 summer associate survey results have been incorporated into the Summer Associate Program sections within each of the Firm Snapshots. So be sure to visit the Career Center, where you’ll find inside information about the summer programs at all the major law firms. Here are some examples: Lunches at this […] -
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Career Center: A Useful Resource for On-Campus Interviewing
With OCI in full swing, you should check out the firms below to see if it is one of the firms you have a callback interview with. Wondering how summer associates rated their summer experience at the firms you may be interviewing with? Check out the Career Center for valuable insight on summer programs, as […] -
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Career Center: Learning How to Meditate -- and to Write a Supreme Court Brief Like a MoFo
With the summer coming to an end, we are almost done updating the summer associate profiles for all the firms listed in the Career Center. Along with Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman and WilmerHale, Morrison & Foerster was another one of the firms that encouraged their 2010 summer associates to share their experience with us. […] -
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Career Center: WilmerHale's Summer Associates, For the Win
In anticipation of the release of the summer associate survey results, last week we highlighted the firm with the highest response rate among summer associates, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman. Today we want to congratulate and feature WilmerHale, for having the highest overall number of respondents to the summer associate survey. In a time when […]
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Career Center: A Good Summer at Kasowitz
Thanks to the over 500 people who responded to our summer associate survey and to all the firms who participated in distributing the survey to their summer associates. We will be rolling out the updated Career Center Firm Snapshots in several weeks, but wanted to give you a sneak peak of some of the results. […] -
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Summer Associates: Last Call
Ah, the end of summer. For many law students, this time of year ushers in the arrival of the fall on-campus recruiting season (or what’s left of it), the dreaded wait for a permanent offer of employment following graduation, as well as a new diet regime for those summer associates who took their firm’s “unlimited […] -
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Career Center: The Five Most Popular Firms
In today’s post, we are highlighting how the summers at this week’s five most popular firms feel about their summer programs. We are also still collecting responses for our 2010 Summer Associate Survey and encourage current summer associates to please take our short survey. You won’t have to explain the impact that this well-known law […] -
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Career Center: A Report on 2009 Summer Programs
Now that we have kicked off the 2010 Summer Associate Satisfaction Survey, we wanted to share with you some of the highlights from the reports on the 2009 firm summer programs. If you are a current summer associate, click here to take our short survey about your experiences this summer at your firm. The summer […] -
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Summer Associates: Let Your Voices Be Heard
We are updating the Career Center and want to know what you think of your summer program. Are the attorneys at your firm screamers or camp counselors? Are you eating at 5-star restaurants, or splitting meals from the Dollar Menu at McDonalds? Are you working on the next mega-merger, or picking up a partner’s dry cleaning? […] -
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Career Center: Billable Hours - Firms Vary Wildly
Welcome to the next in our series on the results of the 2010 ATL/Career Center Associate Satisfaction survey. We’ve used the survey results to revamp the Career Center, powered by Lateral Link, with completely updated profiles. Each week, we are highlighting insider information that Members shared about their firms in the eight key areas of […] -
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Career Center: Five Tips for a Convincing Legal Résumé
In today’s Career Center post, we’ve decided to take a short break from the updates on the results of our Associate Satisfaction Survey to share with you the latest career development article featured in the Associate Resources section of the Career Center, powered by Lateral Link. This article, along with the others in this section, […]