Career alternatives for attorneys
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Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Law Schools, U.S. News
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Being Anything Other Than A Lawyer
You know things are bad when U.S. News, the Holy Grail for students trying to figure out where to go to law school, is writing articles about all of the non-law-related jobs recent graduates are taking just to get by. Everybody who is in law school knows how difficult the job market is. But U.S. News is giving this sobering message about "non-traditional" legal careers to people who have not yet signed up for their own financial doom. And it turns out that even going to a highly-ranked school doesn't save you from having awful job choices.... -
11th Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Bar Exams, Barack Obama, Career Alternatives, Department of Justice, Drugs, Election 2012, Elena Kagan, Health Care / Medicine, Morning Docket, Old People, Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS
Morning Docket: 09.26.11
* Will the DOJ ask the 11th Circuit to reconsider Obamacare before appealing to SCOTUS to get the president reeelected? Does a bear sh*t in the woods? [Los Angeles Times] * The verdict is in on Elena Kagan’s first year on the bench, and one thing’s for sure: the ladies love her. That’s definitely what […]
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Career Alternatives, Law Schools, Politics
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Dictator?
With the legal economy in the toilet, the morale in career services offices has reached an all-time low. They all know that law school graduates are getting sick and tired of putting the "bar" in barista. They all know that law school graduates living the legal grind are busy serving lattes. Well aware of these facts, the career services brigade at one highly-ranked law school decided that it was time to put their heads together and come up with a way to make career alternatives look exciting and new....
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Blogging, Career Alternatives, DealBreaker, Goldman Sachs
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Seriously Guys, This Blogging Thing Might Have Legs
If you are lawyer who is looking for a career change, you really might want to give blogging a try. You won’t make as much money as you would in a Biglaw job. You probably won’t make as much as you would working for a well-respected small law firm. But money isn’t everything. Take it […] -
Career Alternatives, Food, Job Searches, Law Schools
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Peddling Popsicles
When faced with a job that isn’t making you happy, sometimes creativity is necessary in order to escape. Because hey, not everyone can enjoy courtroom glory like that of Jose Baez, knight in shining armor for Casey Anthony. And so, for these people, there are many career alternatives to choose from. We’ve written previously about […] -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Email Scandals, Exercise, Travel / Vacation
Into the Wild: Where In the World Is Tyler Coulson?
Do you remember our Lawyer of the Month for March, Tyler Coulson? He’s the former Sidley Austin Chicago associate who decided that he’d rather walk from Delaware to California than do another day of lawyering. Is he still alive, or did he get eaten by a bear? -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Masturbation, Prostitution, Sex
Career Alternatives: Massage Therapist?
Are you familiar with the website Post Secret? If not, you should check it out. It describes itself as “an ongoing community art project, where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.” The secret-spilling postcards are then posted to the web. One of the entries from this past weekend […] -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Fame Brief, Fast Food, Food, Reality TV, Television
Fame Brief: Former Paul Hastings Associate May Be America's Next Great Restaurateur
What do you get when you cross Top Chef with Mark Cuban’s The Benefactor (anybody remember that? HA), steal half the name of America’s Next Top Model, and throw in inexplicably famous “chef” Curtis Stone? Only the single greatest reality show on NBC during the 8 p.m. time slot on Sundays: America’s Next Great Restaurant. […] - Sponsored
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Career Alternatives, Law Schools
Ironic Message About What You Can Do With A Law Degree
Raise your hand if one of your reasons for going to law school was that somebody told you a law degree was “versatile” and that you can do a whole bunch of things with a J.D. Keep your hand up if time and the recession have proven that “versatility” thing to be a complete load […] -
Career Alternatives, Feminism, Gender, Non-Sequiturs, Plaintiffs Firms, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Securities Law, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 03.25.11
* Who are the top plaintiffs firms in securities class-action litigation, ranked by 2010 total settlement value? [RiskMetrics / SCAS via WSJ Law Blog] * Protip: if you go to a meeting at Deutsche Bank’s New York offices, avoid the men’s room. [Dealbreaker] * This lawyer has an assistant with an unusual name. [Abuse of […] -
Books, Career Alternatives, Clerkships, Facebook, Media and Journalism, Saira Rao
Tropical Depression: The Latest in 'Clerkship Lit'
Move over, chick lit. Make way for “clerk lit”! Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of novels focused on the clerkship, a professional rite of passage for many a prestige-obsessed young lawyer. In these books, plucky law-clerk protagonists have tried to do justice while also holding on to their jobs (and their […] -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Money, Public Interest, Student Loans, Travel / Vacation, Weirdness
The Skadden Associate Who Picked Up and Moved to Nepal: An Update
On Wednesday we wrote about the great departure email sent out by Brian Emeott, a former corporate associate at Skadden in Chicago. Emeott, a 2004 graduate of Harvard College and 2008 graduate of Harvard Law School, picked up and moved to Kathmandu, Nepal. Brian’s wife, Claudine Emeott, resigned from her own job in December and […] -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Email Scandals, Travel / Vacation, Weirdness
Another Great Departure Memo: Skadden Associate Trades Chicago for... Nepal?
Young lawyers of Chicago: What the heck is going on with you people? You seem to be losing it. Has the brutal Chicago winter driven you crazy? Do we need to put The People’s Therapist on the next plane to O’Hare? Let’s look at the evidence. You’re quitting prestigious and lucrative law firm jobs to […]
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Biglaw, Career Alternatives, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
I Demand the Answer
Ed. note: This post is by Will Meyerhofer, a former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney turned psychotherapist. He holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work, and he blogs at The People’s Therapist. His new book, Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy, is available on Amazon. I receive a […] -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Email Scandals, Exercise, Travel / Vacation
Want Out of Biglaw? Take a Hike!
Reading law firm departure memos is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. Sometimes you taste bitterness. Sometimes the flavor is spicy hot. Sometimes you get a little Costa Rica crunch. And sometimes you get… this, which was sent to everyone at Sidley Austin yesterday by an associate leaving […] -
Career Alternatives, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
In-House Counseling: Stooping to Conquer
Ed. note: This post is written by Will Meyerhofer, a Biglaw attorney turned psychotherapist, whom we profiled. A former Sullivan & Cromwell associate, he holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work. He blogs at The People’s Therapist. It’s frustrating, trying to teach lawyers the fundamentals of doing business. […] -
Art, Biglaw, Career Alternatives
ATL Field Trip: Playing With LEGOs on a Saturday
This past weekend, two of your ATL editors paid a visit to Agora Gallery in Chelsea. We wanted to see for ourselves the LEGO brick sculptures of Nathan Sawaya, the lawyer turned LEGO artist. As explained in our profile of Sawaya, the NYU Law grad left Winston & Strawn for a $30,000-a-year job as a […] -
Career Alternatives
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Private Investigation / Business Intelligence
Welcome to the latest installment in our career alternatives series, in which we explore opportunities for attorneys outside the world of large law firms. We know and love the world of Biglaw — it’s our focus here at Above the Law — but we realize that there are other things you can do with a […]