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In-House Counsel, Interview Stories, Job Searches
Moonlighting: The Shortest Interview Process Ever (SIPE)
A lot of people ask in-house columnist Susan Moon how she ended up in her in-house gig. She likes to call the interview process she had for her current job the Shortest Interview Process Ever (SIPE, for short). She's going to tell you about it, and include a couple of tips that she thinks helped her.... -
Deaths, Gay, Immigration, Job Searches, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.20.11
* Another victim of the vengeful prosecution of Tyler Clementi’s roommate might be the guy Clementi was hooking up with when Dharun Ravi broadcast it. [Gawker] * As I said on Twitter, you have to give Obama a little credit: when he uses suspect legal reasoning to do whatever he wants abroad, he comes home […] - 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. -
In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Litigators
Inside Straight: The Land Of The Bobbleheads
We recently had to hire a new lawyer to help with our litigation in the United States. Not surprisingly, that got me to thinking: What are we actually looking for in lawyers that we hire? Some companies litigate their own cases in-house, writing their own briefs, taking depositions, and trying cases. If that’s your company’s […]
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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.... -
Advertising, Career Center, In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Litigators, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center: Hot Practice Areas in the In-House Legal Market
Hiring of attorneys by corporate legal departments has picked up in recent months. As companies became more cost-conscious during the recession, they began reducing legal expenditures by keeping more legal work in-house and relying less on outside counsel with their high billing rates. This has resulted in an increased workload, and thus a need for […] -
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.... -
Bar Exams, Fashion Victims Unit, Job Searches, Mafia, Morning Docket, Movies, State Judges, Technology, Texas
Morning Docket: 10.11.11
* The legal sector lost 1,300 jobs in September. And because that’s not depressing enough, lawyers now have to compete for jobs with computers. Guess it’s time to learn binary. [WSJ Law Blog] * Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week kicked off yesterday in West Virginia. Too bad this campaign isn’t in Michigan, where a woman is […]
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Federal Government, Job Searches, Law Schools
More Jobs for 3Ls -- But Applications Are Due ASAP!(And job opportunities for experienced attorneys too.)
In light of the tough job market for graduating law students, we've been running a series on employment opportunities for 3Ls. Thus far we've covered judicial clerkships, the Justice Department Honors Program, the Presidential Management Fellows Program, and the Chief Counsel’s Employment Program at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Now we bring you news about another arm of the federal government that is hiring graduating law students as well as experienced attorneys. But if you're interested, you need to act fast; applications are due today.... - 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 Alternatives, Job Searches, Law Schools, U.S. News
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Being Anything Other Than A Lawyer
You know things are bad when U.S. News, the Holy Grail for students trying to figure out where to go to law school, is writing articles about all of the non-law-related jobs recent graduates are taking just to get by. Everybody who is in law school knows how difficult the job market is. But U.S. News is giving this sobering message about "non-traditional" legal careers to people who have not yet signed up for their own financial doom. And it turns out that even going to a highly-ranked school doesn't save you from having awful job choices.... -
Biglaw, Facebook, Job Searches, Law Schools
Best Way to Brag About an Offer: Just Lay It Out And Bask In Your Own Glory
For the millennials, bragging comes so naturally they don't even realize when they're doing it. It's like their biological imperatives are to survive, reproduce, and post evidence of it on Facebook. But just because somebody is bragging doesn't mean you have to care. For instance, last week we had a kid bragging about getting an offer from a particular Biglaw firm.... -
Biglaw, Cardozo Law School, Job Searches, Rudeness, Summer Associates
Best Way To Brag About An Offer: Now With Pictures
Last week, we told you the story about a University of Chicago Law School student who received an offer and found a charitable way of bragging about it to his friends. Our next installment of law student puffery involves photos, which is always fun. But in truth we can't be totally sure if this guy is bragging about getting an offer. Given the firm the kid is bragging about, he might just be happy to be there.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Bar Exams, Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, LSAT
Lawyer Undersupply? Barriers To Entry Protect Idiot Consumers Of Legal Services Too.
If you want to go to law school but can’t get into an ABA-accredited one, something is wrong with you. Sorry. Maybe you were raped by a scantron sheet when you were young or a freak boating accident left you unable to read brochures, but something is not right if you can’t get into law […] -
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Job Searches, Layoffs, Unemployment
Can Obama's Jobs Bill Help Laid Off and Unemployed Attorneys?
According to the Department of Labor, 14 million people in our country are unemployed. And with a surplus of lawyers that reaches into the thousands in almost every state, unemployment is a serious problem for the legal profession. Unfortunately, we all know that Biglaw firms -- and surely other firms, as well -- are avoiding these attorneys like the plague. Facing these seemingly insurmountable odds, what's an unemployed attorney to do? As it turns out, President Obama wants to lend a hand, but only if he can get Congress to pass this jobs bill....
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Alex Kozinski, Clerkships, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Job Searches, New York Times, Richard Posner
The Price of Prestige: Clerkship Application Chaos
Over the weekend, we mentioned a very interesting New York Times article on the chaotic state of the clerkship application process, and said we'd have more to say about it later. Well, now is later, quite a bit later -- so let's discuss.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Job Searches, Law Schools, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Law School Opacity
The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar has done a huge disservice to prospective law students, law schools and the legal profession. The legal employment rate is a basic yet crucial part of informing prospective law students. The failure to require law schools to disclose this rate legitimizes questions about whether […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Public Interest
The Best Worst Person to Take Law School Advice From Is Someone Who Didn't Attend Law School
Regardless of the brand name quality of the law schools the editors of Above the Law attended, we can each express our opinions about the costs and benefits of going to law school because we've been there ourselves. But what happens when someone who didn't attend law school -- someone who apparently doesn't even know how long law school lasts -- starts giving out career advice to prospective law students? Ridiculousness, and lots of it.... -
9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Clerkships, Federal Judges, Job Searches, New York Times, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: The Early Bird Gets the Worm
At birth. — Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, explaining when he begins recruiting law clerks. (Chief Judge Kozinski is quoted in a very interesting New York Times article on the chaotic state of the clerkship application process, which we’ll have more to say about later.) UPDATE […] -
Biglaw, Gandolfo "Vince" DiBlasi, H. Rodgin Cohen, Hot Document, Interview Stories, Job Searches, Practice Pointers
An Inside Look at Sullivan & Cromwell's Recruiting Process
Be careful about what you place in the trash. Law firms have paper shredders for a reason; use them. Consider this your practice pointer for the day. Earlier this month, an ATL reader sent us a collection of documents relating to Sullivan & Cromwell's on-campus interviewing program. So, what was in these documents? The contents will be of interest to partners and associates at other firms, as well as law students going through the OCI process right now.... -
Biglaw, Email Scandals, Job Searches, Rudeness, Summer Associates
The Best Way to Brag About an Offer Is Under the Guise of Charity
With offer season well under way, some law students may be wondering how to tell the world that they've landed summer associate jobs without sounding like complete braggarts. Maybe you're a law student who feels only slightly guilty bragging about a job offer, so you think up a creative way to broach the subject with peers? One law student at a leading law school has got this method of breaking the news about offers on lock.... -
Advertising, Biglaw, Career Center, Job Searches, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center: Event Etiquette for Dummies (or Sloppy 2Ls)
This fall you will be invited to attend pre-interview receptions, post-OCI dinners, and various meals and receptions during and after callback interviews. How you handle yourself during these events can have an impact on whether you receive an offer and your reputation in the firm. Follow these sensible rules, courtesy of Lateral Link’s Frank Kimball, […]