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How to Become an (Almost) Indispensable Junior Associate(Part 5)
In the first four parts of the Career Center “Tip of the Day” series, focused on how junior associates can become more indispensable to their law firms, we covered the importance of taking ownership of your work, becoming an expert in your field, developing effective management strategies, and the knowing the local rules of court […] -
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How to Become an (Almost) Indispensable Junior Associate (Part 4)
In parts one, two and three of the Career Center “Tip of the Day” series, focused on how junior associates can become more indispensable to their law firms, we covered the importance of taking ownership of your work, becoming an expert in your field, and developing effective management strategies. Today, we’ll discuss a point that […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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How to Become an (Almost) Indispensable Junior Associate (Part 3)
In parts one and two of the Career Center “Tip of the Day” series, focused on how junior associates can become more indispensable to their law firms, we covered the importance of taking ownership of your work and becoming an expert in your field. Today, we’ll discuss effective management strategies you can use to not […]
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How to Become an (Almost) Indispensable Junior Associate (Part 2)
In the first part of our Career Center “Tip of the Day” series, focused on how junior associates can become more indispensable to their law firms, we covered the importance of taking ownership of your work. Today, we’ll highlight a productive way to spend your precious non-billable time. These tips are provided by the experienced […] -
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How to Become an (Almost) Indispensable Junior Associate (Part 1)
Whether you’re a junior associate just barely surviving Biglaw, thriving in Biglaw, or somewhere in between, this Career Center Tip of the Day series is for you. For many of you junior associates, the extent of your experience with Biglaw layoffs was reading about them on Above the Law from the safety of your law […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: What Counts as Billable Time
If work is slow and you need a good chunk of hours to meet your billable target or to be eligible for a bonus, what’s your best bet for boosting your billables? According to the 884 respondents to Tuesday’s survey, pro bono work. About 68% of respondents say their firms give billable credit for at […] -
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Career Center Survey: Did You Work On Presidents Day?
Last month, we reported that 66% of survey respondents had to work on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, with 32% of respondents’ firms not even recognizing it as an official firm holiday. In today’s Career Center survey, brought to you by Lateral Link, we want to find out whether you were on or off the […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: A Generation of Debtors (Part 2)
In Part 1 of the Career Center survey results on debt, we reported that 85% of the 3,700 survey respondents have outstanding student loan debt, with more than half of them owing $100,000 or more. We also found that 75% of respondents considered their debt at least as much as other factors when deciding on […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Career Center Survey Results: A Generation of Debtors (Part 1)
We received an overwhelming number of responses – 3,700 – to last week’s Career Center survey on debt and how it contributes to your decision on where to work. We will introduce an overview of the results today, and present a more detailed analysis later in the week. Overall, 93% of respondents report being in […] -
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Career Center Survey: Debt -- The New Four-Letter Word
Not too long ago – you know, when Biglaw firms were begging law students to work for them, no one cared about law school transparency, and having a J.D. guaranteed you a long and prosperous career – signing yourself up for six figures of crushing law school debt didn’t seem like such a big deal. […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: Get Your Bonus ... And Stay
In Tuesday’s survey, we asked whether you left your firm after collecting your 2010 year-end bonus (paid in December for 43% of respondents). About 14% of respondents reported jumping ship after their bonus checks cleared, while another 8% were in such a hurry to leave that they couldn’t bother waiting around for their bonus money. […] -
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Career Center Survey: Going to Take the (Bonus) Money and Run?
Earlier this month, we surveyed you to find out how satisfied you were with your 2010 year-end bonus. Half of all associates whose firms had announced bonus payments reported dissatisfaction with their year-end bonuses. In today’s survey, we want to find out how many of you are actually going to put your money where your […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: A Working Holiday
We received over 1,300 responses to this week’s Career Center survey on whether you made MLK Day “A Day On, Not A Day Off” — for your employer. The majority of respondents, 66 percent, reported working on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Not surprisingly, the top reason for putting in extra billable hours was that […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Career Center Survey: Did you work on MLK Day?
When it comes to working on holidays, we all know that Biglaw attorneys are some of the worst offenders. In today’s Career Center survey, brought to you by Lateral Link, tell us if you were off on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, or if it was just business as usual. Then check back later this […] -
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Career Center: Your New Year's Résumé Checkup
It’s the new year – time to dust off that résumé. Even if you are happy with your 2010 bonus and not ready to jump ship just yet, you never know when you might get a call about a job opportunity that you simply can’t pass up. Or maybe you have been searching for a […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: Bonus Satisfaction
In a previous post, we revealed that 73% of respondents to our survey met their minimum billable requirements last year. Today, we find out whether associates were satisfied with receiving 2009-level bonuses for a busier 2010. Let’s see what the survey says…. -
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Career Center: Top Tax Practices
Obtained your LLM in tax and want to know the best corporate tax firms in the country? Check the firm profiles below and see how associates really feel about working at one of these prominent tax firms. And don’t forget to check out the profiles of other firms on the Career Center, powered by Lateral […] -
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Career Center Survey: Did you hit your billable hours requirement?
By most accounts, law firms had a stronger year in 2010 than in 2009 (although you wouldn’t know it from the disappointing bonuses that many of them paid out). Did a busier year translate into plenty of billables for all associates? In this week’s survey, we want to know whether you met your firm’s minimum […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For -- Smaller Legal Markets
We hope you’ve enjoyed following our series on Top Partners to Work For, as we’ve made our way around the country highlighting the law firm partners who are not only great at what they do, but are also great to work for. As we mentioned earlier, this survey is now closed — but we’ll run […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work for – Chicago
As we head into the home stretch of our Top Partners to Work For series, we want to thank all of our readers who submitted such glowing partner nominations. If you work for an outstanding partner whom you think should be included on the list, we will be accepting new nominations in another survey in […]