Grover Cleveland

Sometimes the job of lawyer involves taking a bullet for your client.

New lawyers: share your insights into law firm recruiting and firm practice

If you're a new lawyer, you may find the advice you're looking for here.

How should you go about doing informational interviews?

If you recently started my first law job, how can you get used to receiving multiple assignments from different supervisors and having to prioritize everything yourself?

You're not alone: everyone in an entering class often looks young to the senior partners.

What should you do (or not do) to get off to a good start at a law firm?

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?

Here are some more important tips for succeeding as a summer associate, including remembering that law firms are businesses.

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?

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?

Check out this departure memo: great opening line, or greatest opening line?

* A company is selling pork-laced bullets to “keep Islamics from going to Heaven.” Ever since Denny’s, they’re putting bacon in everything… [CBS Seattle] * Justice Thomas is really terrible. This is probably why #UncleThomas is trending on Twitter. [Jezebel] * A feminist critique of law reviews based on the Russell Crowe film, Gladiator. This sounds intriguing. [TaxProf Blog] * If you wanted to know how the judge decided the audio expert issue in the Zimmerman trial, we’ve got you covered. If you wanted to know when attorney Don West will compile his collection of Greatest Opening Statement Jokes, we have no idea. [The Expert Institute] * TNT has a new show dropping teams in Tasmania and forcing them to endure… a knockoff of The Amazing Race and Survivor. But an L.A.-based attorney is on this Friday trying to win $100,000, or what we used to call “a year-end bonus.” [TNT Newsroom] * Ken White breaks down all the charges against Edward Snowden. To avoid these charges, Snowden is holed up in the transit zone of the Moscow airport, which I hear has a really terrible TGI Friday’s where Snowden will get to eat for the indefinite future. [Popehat] * Anonymous Partner isn’t the only one with advice for summer associates. Here are tips from Grover Cleveland, author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks (affiliate link), and Katherine Larkin-Wong, president of Ms. JD. [The Careerist] * Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and Professor Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz debate an upcoming Supreme Court case, Bond v. United States, concerning the treaty power. [Cato Institute]

Now that you’ve figured out what to give your secretary this holiday season, what about the lawyers in your life? Many of you have friends or family members who are lawyers or law students, and if you haven’t done so already, you need to get them — forgive the expression — Christmas presents (or holiday […]

Grover Cleveland is the author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer, an advice book for attorneys published earlier this year. As a partner at Foster Pepper PLC, one of the Northwest’s largest law firms, he helped many new attorneys learn how to practice law. While at […]