Fall Recruiting
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Biglaw, Fashion, Headhunters / Recruiters, Interview Stories, Job Searches, Social Media, Social Networking Websites
11 Tips For The Biglaw Interview Day
What can you do to translate that interview into a job offer? -
Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Interview Stories, Job Searches, Law Schools
Qui Tam: On-Campus Interviewing
Which Biglaw firm sends the coolest interviewers to on-campus interviewing? - 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. -
Job Searches, Law Professors, Law Schools
Qui Tam: A Study Of The Legal Profession In Verse
Please welcome Above the Law's new poet in residence, who will be sharing poems about the legal profession in our pages.
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Biglaw, Career Center, Career Files, Cozen O'Connor, Interview Stories, Job Survey, Law Students, Patton Boggs, Schiff Hardin, Sheppard Mullin
'Please Pretend To Care' And Other On-Campus Interviewing Lessons
A look at the results of our OCI survey, including the firms rated most highly by student interviewees. -
Facebook, Job Searches, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Rudeness, Social Media, Social Networking Websites
Klassy Student Posts All His Offer Letters For His Fellow Students
Joe and Elie look at a Facebook kerfuffle between a student who posted his offer letters and another who called him out as a tool. -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Kasowitz Benson, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Screw-Ups, Summer Associates
A Fall Recruiting Debacle: One Firm Decides To Go Explode Some Offers
Yikes! What would you do if put in such a situation? -
Biglaw, Interview Stories, Job Searches, Summer Associates
How Do You Choose Which Law Firm Offer To Accept?
ATL editors share their musings on choosing a law firm to work for. -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Partner Issues, Partner Profits
2013 Law Firm Performance: An Answer And A Question
Why are law firms hiring more lawyers during a time of weak demand, and what overlooked aspect of 2012 law firm performance could affect results in 2013? - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Antonin Scalia, Biglaw, Job Searches, King & Spalding, Rudeness, Screw-Ups
Rejection Letters of the Day: When They REALLY Don't Want You
Here are two examples of what NOT to do when sending out rejection letters. -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Summer Associates
The Chart That Should Make Everybody Doing On-Campus Interviewing Absolutely Freaking Terrified
This infographic on OCI will make you say FML. -
Biglaw, Interview Stories, Job Searches, Law Schools
Some Thoughts About On-Campus Interviewing
Contrary to popular belief, law students ARE still getting jobs. Here are some helpful resources for 2Ls going through on-campus interviewing. -
Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, No Offers, Patton Boggs, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2013): Open Thread
Which law firms issued offers to all of their summer associates? -
Harvard, Job Searches, Law Schools, Summer Associates
(Un)Fair Harvard? Law School Limits Job Options For Joint Degree Students
Should joint degree students be eligible for the same OCI opportunities as the rest of their classmates?
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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…
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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…
Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
Sponsored
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
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Interview Stories, Law Schools
Master Class Douchery: 3L Gunner Schools Classmates in Interviewing
Sometimes the line between helpful and annoying is hard to see. -
Career Alternatives, Fabulosity, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Job Searches, Law Schools, Videos, Women's Issues
A Guide for Surviving On-Campus Interviewing With Style
On-campus interviewing season is here, so here are some great style tips courtesy of CakeStyle, a company co-founded by a Harvard Law grad... -
Biglaw, Job Searches
Are You Ready For The Summer? Do You Know How To Pronounce The Names Of All The Firms?
Learn to speak before you talk... -
Biglaw, Harvard, Job Searches, Law Schools, Public Interest
The Commendable Yet Futile Harvard Law Campaign To 'Just Say No' to Biglaw
The Harvard Law campaign to get people to turn down Biglaw is cute but doomed to failure... -
Biglaw, Interview Stories, Job Searches, john quinn, Law Schools, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Summer Associates
Quinn Emanuel Takes a New Approach to On-Campus Recruiting
Nobody has ever accused Quinn Emanuel of being too conventional. Now the firm is experimenting with a new approach to on-campus recruiting. What does John Quinn have up his sleeve? -
Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money
Columbia Asks Alumni for $1,000 to Help Pay for Biglaw Interviews
File this under: "reasons why the alumni office should clear everything with the PR department." Somebody at Columbia Law School sent out an email to recent alumni asking for a $1,000 donation (or twelve $85 monthly installments) to help current law students. A bunch of Columbia grads who aren't working in Biglaw were asked to... wait, let me get this language exactly right: "Give a student the chance at a dream job." Hilarity ensues.... -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Interview Stories, Job Searches
Should You Tell Them?
Some things are so obvious they really don't need to be explained anymore. Like it's icy in Iceland. Like it sucks working at a Biglaw firm. You kinda ought to know that by now -- which is why interviewing 2L's feels so heart-breaking. Will Meyerhofer should know; he's been listening to senior and mid-level associates for the past month, telling him how much it sucks interviewing 2Ls....