Career Files
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Career Center, Career Files
From The Career Files: What Is Your Gut Telling You?
You’re taught to scour through every statute, every case, every word, every comma, etc. so you can craft an argument to support your client’s position. This is perfect training for practicing law. -
Career Alternatives, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Leave The Law Behind, Are You Ready?
Find the courage to admit to yourself that you're unhappy. - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Students
From The Career Files: Personal Statement Dos And Dont's
A bad essay can drag an otherwise strong application into the rejection pile; a good essay can save a borderline application.
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Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Law Students
Busting Open 7 Law School Admission Myths
Law schools may tell you that they are accepting applications in June, but that doesn’t mean applying that late in the cycle is in your best interest. -
Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Advice For Snagging An Offer
The summer will go by quickly. Make the most of it by first assessing your goals. One key goal is to get a full-time offer. -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: The 'Right Time' To Make A Career Change
There is a concept that everyone uses when they talk about making major changes in their lives (especially career changes), and it’s called the “Right Time.” -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: How I Coach My Clients To Leave The Law
When I speak with a prospective coaching client, I make it a point to discuss in detail how we actually (step by step) leave the law behind. -
Career Center, Career Files, LSAT
What I Did During Summer Vacation: A Saga Of The Law School Applicant
Pre-empting any possible criticism for not using time wisely, future law students stress about how to spend the summer before applying to law school. - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Law Students, Law Students, Pre-Law, Student Loans
Stats Of The Week: Law Schools With The Best Salary-To-Debt Ratios
The top 5 performing law schools according to "salary-to-debt" data. -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers, Money
Money Matters: 2016 Millennial Lawyer Survey Results
Compensation was the top reason Millennial lawyers left firms and a top contributor to job satisfaction. -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: My 21-Step Guide On How To Leave The Law And Begin Anew
By its nature, leaving the law is kind of a formless, unstructured exercise. What's the first step? -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Are You An Impostor?
Do you sometimes feel like an impostor? Like someone who is merely posing as an attorney, who actually has no business, whatsoever, practicing law? -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Necessary Advice For New Lawyers
Unless you have a relative who is general counsel of a major enterprise and the nepotistic stars have aligned for you, building your own client base can take sustained effort – and patience.
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls.
Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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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…
Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: The Main Fear Preventing Us From Leaving The Law
We need certainty. We’re lawyers, and we are naturally (or we were trained to be) risk averse. -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, LSAT
From The Career Files: The 3 Worst LSAT Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them)
Have you been making any of these mistakes during your studies? -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Does Competition Make You A Better Lawyer?
Whether you’re representing a client in litigation or in a transaction, you’re tasked with making sure that your arguments for your clients’ interests are more compelling than those of the other side. -
Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Useful Advice For New Lawyers
Negative feedback can be difficult to hear. But it is one of the best ways to get information about what you need to learn and to do differently. -
Career Alternatives, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: The Language Of Change, Transitioning From Law To Business
Changing your mindset is critical to make the transition with a J.D. to a non-legal career. -
Career Center, Career Files, LSAT, Pre-Law
8 Lessons For June LSAT Takers
As we head into March, it’s time to really focus on the June LSAT. Here are 8 things to keep in mind if you plan to take the LSAT in June. -
Patents, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Who Is Alice, And Why Is She Driving Patent Attorneys Mad As Hatters?
Every so often, the Supreme Court hands down a case that causes a seismic shift in our legal system.