Career Services
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ATL March Madness (2012): The Most Honest Law School FINAL
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ATL March Madness (2012): The Most Honest Law School Final Four
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ATL March Madness (2012): The Most Honest Law School Round 2
In this post, we'll check out last week's winners and set up the next round of the Most Honest Law School bracket....
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Contests, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, March Madness, Reader Polls
ATL March Madness (2012): The Most Honest Law School
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Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools
Vermont Law School Graduates Go On to Be Successful Legal Recruiters and Apple Pickers
Over the past few weeks, it seems Above the Law has unleashed a torrent of populist rage against law school career services’ departments posting crummy job opportunities. Yesterday, we heard about another unfortunate career services posting, this time from the Vermont Law School. What was almost more depressing than the job, though, is our tipster’s […] -
Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Law Schools
Maryland Law's Response Highlights Career Services 'Expertise'
On Tuesday, we brought you news of a job opportunity that is currently available on the University of Maryland School of Law's Symplicity job bank. When we first wrote about the listing, we called it a "career services nightmare." After all, the job had more to do with orange parking cones than the law. Instead of hanging their heads in shame for trying to sell a job as a parking garage manager to its students, the career development office issued a vigorous defense of this exciting opportunity in vehicular supervision and coordination. The email was written by the assistant dean for career development herself. What did she have to say? -
Career Alternatives, Cars, Job Searches, Law Schools
Maryland Law's Tuition Is Down, But So Is the Quality of Its Job Listings
Back in December 2010, we reported that tuition at the University of Maryland School of Law would not be subject to the four percent hike for the 2011-2012 academic year that was thrust upon the rest of the programs doing business at the university's Baltimore campus. At the time, we gave Maryland Law major kudos for protecting its students from tuition increases. Now, we wonder if a just little more tuition money would have prevented this career services nightmare.... -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Career Center, Law Schools, Small Law Firms
ATL Survey Update: We Heart Our Firms, Money isn't Everything, and CSO Seriously Unpopular
Last Thursday, Above the Law opened its ATL Firm & School Insiders Survey and so far, so good. Students at nearly 100 law schools and lawyers at about 200 firms have responded. As previously noted, this survey is one of the first data-gathering tools we’ll be using to create a new, expanded ATL Career Center. As our data accumulates, we look forward to slicing and dicing it in myriad ways, in order to find patterns of interest to our readership, but more importantly, for useful insights for anyone researching legal education and careers. - Sponsored
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Job Searches, Law Schools
Dean of Students Gets Networking Advice All Wrong
A couple of days ago, Elie offered some networking advice to the functional alcoholics in the audience. Sure, his thoughts were a little bit outside the box, but they were better than the kind of standard networking tripe most law students get from their overmatched career services administrators. Case in point, take a look as some networking advice sent around by the Dean of Students at a New York-area law school just last week. The advice was perfect if the dean was trying to ensure that the students made no impression, and left all employers wondering why they bothered to show up for a silly networking event in the first place.... -
Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Law Schools
Is Your Career Services Office This Lazy?
The lack of effort put in by career services professionals at the nation's law schools really seems to be out of hand. When you can't even trust your CSO to effectively cull Symplicity to remove stupid and insulting job prospects like the ones below, it's time to change the entire approach to law school career services.... -
Job Searches, pls hndle thx
Pls Hndle Thx: Career Disservices
A law student wrote in seeking advice about some questionable career tips he received from his school. As if law students didn’t have enough strikes against them -- sh*tty economy, no jobs, worthless degree -- a new and insidious threat also conspires to keep them broke and unemployed: Career Services. What did Marin advise? -
Food, Job Searches, Law Schools
Law School Claims Potato Chip Tester/Taster Job Was Fictitious
On Friday, we brought you what could be classified as one of the worst law jobs of all time: a job as an unpaid potato chip tester/taster. And much like the side effects of eating an Olestrafied potato chip, the law school in question has announced that the notorious job was full of crap.... -
Food, Job Searches, Law Schools
Once You Pop, You Can't Stop: New Law School Job Post Borders on Absurd
Here at Above the Law, we write all the time about crappy law job postings. We recently received word about a law school career services job posting that was so horrendous, so ridiculous, that we could not help ourselves but to write about it. After all, writing about crappy law jobs is like opening a can of Pringles: once you pop, you can't stop. And this job -- well, let's just say that it takes the cake, or the potato chip, as the case may be....
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Breasts, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Law Schools, Shoes, Women's Issues
A Message from Career Services: Ladies, Please Learn How to Dress Yourselves
We thought that we had gotten the point across on this in October: ladies, if you dress like hookers, the only jobs you'll get will be underneath a partner's desk. But apparently that message fell on deaf ears, because one law school's Career & Professional Development Office had to co-sponsor an event with the school's Women Law Students Association on how to properly dress for an interview.... -
Job Searches, Law Schools
Career Services to Alumni: 'For the Love of God, Please Hire Our Graduates'
We've been talking lately about career services officers who don't seem to know, or just plain deny, that it's their job to find jobs for law students. Apparently one career services official has taken our words of wisdom to heart. At least this guy is trying to find jobs for graduates.... -
General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
A Recent Law Grad's Attempt at Revenge on His Law School
The administrators at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles didn't think they were walking into a smackdown when they sent out an email to alumni asking them to update their employment statuses. But smacked they were, down on their heads, as one former solo practitioner's epic, slightly rambling response to the innocent request just tore up the school for its behavior towards recent graduates.... -
Job Searches, Law Schools
Career Services Official Admits Finding Jobs For Students Is Not Her Job
When Elie saw an email from a career services officer at a law school where she stated that finding students jobs was not her job, he had to nod his head and say, "Balls." That's how many of them think, right? They "advise" or "counsel" or "leave early to go the gym," but it's somebody else's job to actually make sure these students are employed. Right? At least this particular CSO employee had the guts to tell the student body the truth.... -
Career Alternatives, Law Schools, Politics
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Dictator?
With the legal economy in the toilet, the morale in career services offices has reached an all-time low. They all know that law school graduates are getting sick and tired of putting the "bar" in barista. They all know that law school graduates living the legal grind are busy serving lattes. Well aware of these facts, the career services brigade at one highly-ranked law school decided that it was time to put their heads together and come up with a way to make career alternatives look exciting and new.... -
Job Searches, Law Schools
You're Saying the Cat Got a Job Because of His Hat?
Alright, we've got a little bit of a bone to pick with career services offices. Aren't the people who work there supposed to help law students find jobs? Or at least give law students some clues about how they can find jobs themselves? In lieu of jobs or career advice, career services offices are now offering children's poetry to their students.... -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Unemployment
Michigan Law Tells Its 3Ls They're Screwed; Offers Counseling
While there are students enjoying the good life as summer associates, many rising 3Ls are staring into the abyss of entering 3L recruiting without a post-graduate job lined up. At the University of Michigan Law School, the office of career services is preparing students for just how abysmal the abyss is going to be: As […]