From The Career Files: Essentials For A Mentor Considering An Investment In A Mentee
Mentorship helps mentees make better career moves, improve their work product, increase their professional self-awareness and understand firm nuances.
From The Career Files: Using Anger As A Tool For Your Career
Like many emotions, anger serves a purpose.
Pursuing The Pro Bono Story: A Conversation With Alicia Aiken
This Pro Bono Week, get inspired to give back with PLI’s Pursuing Justice: The Pro Bono Files, a one-of-a-kind podcast hosted by Alicia Aiken.
From The Career Files: Leave The Law Behind, Are You Ready?
Find the courage to admit to yourself that you're unhappy.
From The Career Files: Personal Statement Dos And Dont’s
A bad essay can drag an otherwise strong application into the rejection pile; a good essay can save a borderline application.
Who Is Alice, And Why Is She Driving Patent Attorneys Mad As Hatters?
Every so often, the Supreme Court hands down a case that causes a seismic shift in our legal system.
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.
First Draft To Final: How To Use AI To Accelerate Legal Drafting Workflows
Discover how LexisNexis Protégé™ transforms legal drafting into a strategic collaboration between lawyers and AI—enhancing quality, speed, and defensibility.
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.
From the Career Files: How to Forget You’re A Lawyer When You Travel
Being a lawyer is, by no means, an easy career. It’s demanding and stressful and can be downright nasty at times, which is why most attorneys revel in their vacations.
From The Career Files: How To Think About Your Legal Skills To Position Them For A Non-Legal Job
One thing that is holding many of us back is that we think our skills only enable us to be lawyers.
From The Career Files: A 4-Week Calendar For December LSAT Takers
It’s mid-December, and you’ve had a week to get over the post-LSAT slump and any anxiety you might have had about canceling or keeping your LSAT score.
3 Ways Lawyers Are Finding New Efficiencies With AI
Those who’ve adopted legal-specific systems are seeing big benefits.
From The Career Files: It Ain’t Easy
Successful lawyers don’t make it to the top through social media and search engine optimization. They get there by working hard. So says Brian Tannebaum in his recent book, The Practice...
From the Career Files: 9 Reasons Biglaw Associates Should Adopt a Goal-Based Investment Strategy
Before you start putting money into the market, ask yourself one question: What exactly are you saving and investing for? This is a serious moment of self-inquiry, especially for young associates who are considering what to do with their money. In order to invest for the future, you are cutting back on spending your wealth now. There must be some future purpose for this sacrifice—some goal for tomorrow’s spending that outweighs the pleasure of today’s spending.
From The Career Files: 10 Top Investing Books For Biglaw Associates
We believe investors are made, not born. And for even the most advanced financial whizzes, ongoing education remains a key part of managing money well.
How Take Care Of Yourself: Being A Law Student And Functional Human Don’t Have To Be Mutually Exclusive
Here are four suggestions for taking care of yourself in law school.
Finding Balance: How Being A Law Student And Functional Human Don’t Always Have To Be Mutually Exclusive
When you look at 1Ls, it’s no wonder that our profession ends up ranking among the highest for utter dissatisfaction, rampant substance abuse, and crippling depression.