Career Files
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Career Center, Career Files, Pre-Law
Applying To Law School As An Immigrant Or As The Child Of Immigrant Parents
In the last five years, nearly 70 percent of my law school admission consulting clients have had one of the following stories to tell in their personal statements and/or diversity statements for law school application. -
Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Center: Practical Advice For New Lawyers
Q: I split my summers and have offers from three firms to join as a full-time associate. I have no idea how to choose. What should I do? - Sponsored
AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work. -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Being Yourself In Your Role As A Lawyer
While you can seek permission to be yourself from the other people in your life, the permission ultimately comes from you.
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Career Center, Career Files, Interview Stories
From the Career Files: 6 Tips To Crush It At OCI
When I was a law student, I bombed more than a couple OCI interviews. -
Career Center, Career Files, LSAT, Pre-Law
From The Career Files: Jumping The LSAT Hurdle
Other than the rare examples of law schools here and here, you’re going to need to take the LSAT to get into law school. -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Summer Associates
From The Career Files: Results from the Swimming Lessons For Baby Sharks/Above The Law Millennial Survey
Associates feel welcome, want more feedback, and are split on partnership. And many don’t record all their time. -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Law Students
From The Career Files: How To Start Law School Right
You have a couple more precious summer months before starting your life as a future lawyer. -
Biglaw, Career Files, Lawyers, Rankings
The 2016 ATL Power 100: Help Us Rank Biglaw Firms
Highlights from the ATL Law Firm Survey: Let us know what you think of your employer and peer firms. - Sponsored
Why Do AI And Legal Professionals Make The Perfect Partnership?
For many legal departments, generative AI is the technology they’ve been waiting for. -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Summer Associates
From The Career Files: Swimming Lessons For Baby Sharks, Practical Advice For New Lawyers
It takes a village to raise a child; it takes a team to do great legal work. -
Career Center, Career Files, Technology
From The Career Files: What Lawyers Can Learn From Uber
There are some prominent analogies between how Uber operates and how legal services are delivered. -
Biglaw, Career Center, Career Files, Summer Associates
From The Career Files: Swimming Lessons For Baby Sharks -- Practical Advice For New Lawyers
Here are some more important tips for succeeding as a summer associate, including remembering that law firms are businesses. -
Career Center, Career Files, Technology
From The Career Files: Bringing Silicon Valley To Sullivan And Cromwell
Tech company office culture, with doggie day care, on site masseuse, gourmet chefs, beanbags , toys, workplace mindfulness, and job titles containing the word “ninja,” is the envy of many employees and workplace culture experts. -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Summer Associates
From The Career Files: What Do I Need To Do To Succeed As A Summer Associate?
Q: What do I need to do to succeed as a summer associate? Are there differences between what I need to do as a summer and a first-year associate?
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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work.
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.
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Why Do AI And Legal Professionals Make The Perfect Partnership?
For many legal departments, generative AI is the technology they’ve been waiting for.
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Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50…
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How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
Sign up and join us for our CLE webinar. From importing your checklist to delivering the closing book, you can bolster client service throughout the…
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Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Who Are You If You’re Not A Lawyer?
Why, as a profession, are we lawyers so concerned with developing our careers and our professional lives, when we have a tendency to ignore the rest? -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Pre-Law
From the Career Files: Budgeting For Your Law School Application Cycle
Law school is a big financial investment, but so is applying to law school -- know exactly what you’re getting yourself into as you prepare for the next application cycle. -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks - Practical Advice For New Lawyers
I asked if my administrative assistant could help on a project. My assistant said, “No, I can’t,” and looked away. I am not supposed to do administrative work. What now? -
Career Files, Law Schools, Pre-Law, Student Loans
We Would Be Better Off If 30 Law Schools Closed
A modest proposal for reforming legal education: cull the herd. -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
Lessons From The NFL Draft: What Should Law Firms Be Thinking And Learning About You?
It’s NFL Draft time, the culmination of months of research and often years of watching top player prospects all in the hopes of making the right decision on draft day and assembling the right athletes for a shot at a championship season. -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Schools, Law Students
From The Career Files: It’s Almost Finals! Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Study Time?
Some students would rather do almost anything besides practice hypos. Why? Probably because hypos feel pretty terrible at first! -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: LawProse -- Whether 'Whether' Causes Problems For Legal Writers
Yes, it does—in four ways...