Career alternatives for attorneys
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Lego Brick Artist
Are you good at building stuff with Legos? One former Biglaw associate has turned it into a career. -
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: From Biglaw To Big Breasts
An associate left her Biglaw job to launch a lingerie business aimed at helping women like herself: big-busted but not plus-size women who have a hard time buying bras. - Sponsored
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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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Novelist and Blogger
Scratch a lawyer and you'll find an aspiring writer beneath the surface. Trying to make the jump from practicing law to a full-time writing career? Here's a case study.
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Technology-Enabled Fashion Apparel Designer
How does one go from practicing law to designing technology-enabled clothing? Find out here! -
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Tough Mudder
Learn how this former tax attorney gets thousands of people to pay to torture themselves in 10-12 mile physical endurance events. -
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Yoga Instructor
Learn about how one lawyer chose happiness, balance, and zen in her life over the practice of law. -
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Restaurant Reviewer Surveyor
Learn about how two lawyers built a nine-figure business. -
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Perfumer
In today's look at alternative careers for lawyers, we meet a lawyer who now has his own perfume business on a Caribbean island. - 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… -
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Calling All Lapsed Lawyers
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Forager
Meet Tama Matsuoka Wong, a former in-house counsel who is now the official forager for Restaurant Daniel. -
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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Master of Wine
How would you like to leave the practice of law and basically drink wine for a living? -
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Non-Sequiturs: 11.12.12
* Barack Obama will not be invited to party with the Supreme Court justices to celebrate his reelection -- which is too bad, because from what we hear, they really know how to get down. [WSJ Law Blog] * Here's a protip that essentially comes straight from David Petraeus. You can add these to the list of crazy things that your jealous mistress will say to any other woman who so much as looks in your direction. [Althouse] * “Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?” Career alternative for this attorney: bludgeoning Karl Rove with witty election night insults. [Daily Beast] * Here's a list of the five kinds of partners you'll typically find in Biglaw. All you've got to do is find their weaknesses, and use them to your advantage. [Greedy Associates / FindLaw] * In the days ahead, should law schools cut tuition or cut class size? Obviously the solution is to do a little from column A and a little from column B, but you know they'll never budge on tuition. [PrawfsBlawg] -
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Yo! ATL Raps
A former Dewey & LeBoeuf associate started a company that just received $15 million in venture capital financing. But can it compete with Westlaw and Lexis?
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Career Alternatives For Attorneys: Television Screenwriter
Interested in being a screenwriter for television or film? Check out our interview with Adam Perlman, a Biglaw attorney who quit his job to be a writer. -
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Comment of the Week: The Babies of Biglaw
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Morning Docket: 09.21.12
* Martin Bienenstock, Dewey’s former bankruptcy head, offered some free legal advice to the firm’s bankruptcy advisers: “[P]lease get real about the unfinished business claims.” [WSJ Law Blog]
* In other interesting Dewey news, you’re never going to guess what Steve DiCarmine’s been doing since the firm went under. He of the orange skin tone is making it work at Parsons. [Am Law Daily]
* Remember Kenechukwu Okoli, the guy who slapped a Paul Hastings partner in the face during a depo and then sued him for assault? Yeeaah, that suit got dismissed. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* NerdWallet has created an online law school comparison tool, but users will only get to choose from 50 schools, none of which are in the so-called U.S. News second tier. Guess they don’t think Cooley is the second-best school in the country. How rude. [Bucks / New York Times]
* Cecilia Gimenez, the woman from Spain who accidentally turned a fresco of Christ into a portrait of a monkey, is now seeking royalties from funds the church levied as entrance fees to see her “work of art.” [Telegraph]
* Bridget Mary McCormack, a candidate for Michigan’s Supreme Court, has a simple tip for putting together the best judicial campaign video ever: all you need to do is reunite the cast of The West Wing. Check it out….
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Terrible Job Potpourri: Your Womb Is More Useful Than Your Law Degree
Speaking of terrible jobs, does having a J.D. mean you can charge a higher fee when renting out your womb? -
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Girl Postpones Law School To Drive A Wiener: Good Call or GREAT Call?
Driving the Wienermobile makes a lot more sense than going to law school... -
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Morning Docket: 08.21.12
* That’s one hell of a “rainy day fund.” Greenberg Traurig is asking for $24M over the next two years, and has no plans to do it again in the near future. [Daily Business Review]
* Lots of law firms have been listening to that Petula Clark song about how great things are downtown, because that’s where their offices are headed. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Republicans are begging Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin to quit, but he’s vowed to stay the course. “[A]bortion is never an option,” not even for his campaign. [New York Times]
* Dipping and squeezing is serious business in the condiment world, and that’s why there’s a patent lawsuit over this innovative ketchup packet. [Huffington Post]
* Career alternatives for attorneys: sci-fi salvaging savior? This entertainment lawyer is taking out-of-print fantasy novels and turning them into e-books. Sometimes being a nerd is pretty cool. [New York Daily News]
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A Guide for Surviving On-Campus Interviewing With Style
On-campus interviewing season is here, so here are some great style tips courtesy of CakeStyle, a company co-founded by a Harvard Law grad...