Career Alternatives
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Technology
alt.legal: The $21BN Contract Lawyer Marketplace is Up For Grabs, 'Hire An Esquire' Plans to Catch It
The startup looking to make the temporary legal market more transparent, liquid, and fair to both buyers (law firms and corporate legal departments) and lawyers. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.08.16
* Remember Kent and Jill Easter, the married lawyers who planted bags of weed and pills in the car of Kelli Peters, a PTA volunteer at their son’s school? Kent’s law license was suspended, Jill was disbarred, they’re now divorced, and to top it all off, a jury recently awarded Peters $5.7M in her case against them. [Orange County Register]
* The horror! The horror! Not only did Marco Rubio get his ass handed to him during this weekend’s Republican debate, but it turns out he’s accused of having been a law firm lobbyist for Florida firms Becker & Poliakoff and Broad and Cassel. [BuzzFeed News]
* A proposed ABA resolution that local bar groups think has to do with non-lawyer ownership of law firms — they’re not entirely sure, of course — is making the hair stand up on the back of attorneys’ necks. What could possibly go wrong? [WSJ Law Blog]
* Career alternatives for attorneys law school deans: David Yellen, dean of Loyola Law – Chicago for more than a decade (and former ATL columnist), will be leaving the law school game to assume the presidency at Marist College. [Poughkeepsie Journal]
* Applications may be down at Yale Law School when compared to prior years, but administrators aren’t exactly concerned about it. Come on, get real: It’s Yale, and the law school “still [has] more qualified applicants than [it] can accept.” [Yale Daily News]
* According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal profession celebrated the New Year by shedding 1,400 jobs. Don’t worry, 2016 graduates, there’s still a chance the job market could improve, but we’ll have to wait it out. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* Miriam Cedarbaum, longtime federal judge of the S.D.N.Y., RIP. [New York Times]
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Career Alternatives, In-House Counsel, Job Searches
The Road Not Taken: Finishing Touches
Find the good in your experience as a lawyer and articulate it, not just for your non-law interviews, but for yourself as well.
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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. -
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. -
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. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Technology
alt.legal: To Strive, To Seek, To Find And Not To Yield
If the end of 2015 has you contemplating a jump away from law, consider the world of alternative legal services. -
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. -
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?
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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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. -
Job Searches, Technology
alt.legal: Are You A Happy Attorney? Are There Happy Attorneys?
Okay, so most American attorneys are unhappy -- what can you do about it? -
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. -
Law Schools, Sports
You Don't Want To Pick A Fight With This Law Student
One 3L passes his free time in an interesting way. -
Bloomberg, Law Schools, Technology
The Renaissance Law Student: 3 Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Law School
In order to seize existing and emerging opportunities, law students must educate themselves in topics—from marketing to finance to Six Sigma—that might become relevant to their pursuits. -
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?