Career Advice
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Biglaw, Job Searches, Partner Issues
Buying In: Put Me In, Coach
Does it make sense to use a career coach? If so, for what? Anonymous Partner has some views. -
Clerkships, In-House Counsel, Practice Pointers
House Rules: Foot In Mouth Disease…
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Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50… -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Lawyerly Lairs, Partner Issues, Real Estate
Buying In: Biglaw Real Estate
Location, location, location: in the world of Biglaw, where you sit matters. Anonymous Partner explains how.
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Ask the Experts, Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From the Career Files: How To Find Your Mentor
Some practical advice for young lawyers looking for a mentor. -
Clerkships, In-House Counsel, Practice Pointers
House Rules: To Clerk, Redux...
Clerking can be a magnificent career opportunity. Don't turn it down just because you worry about what people might think. -
Ask the Experts, Biglaw, Books, Movies, Partner Issues
The ATL Interrogatories: 10 Questions with Peter Kalis of K&L Gates
K&L Gates managing partner Peter Kalis shares insights and experiences about the legal profession and careers in law, as well as about himself. -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Career Coaches
More and more law firms are hiring career coaches for their lawyers. What do career coaches do, and what explains their increasing popularity? -
Job Searches, Legal Ethics, Reader Polls
And This Is How We Turn Good People Into Unethical Lawyers
Is this offer more of a poison pill? - Sponsored
AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work. -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: Behind the Curtain
Why do Biglaw mentors seek only to promote themselves and give little actual advice? Are mentors at small firms the same? -
Clerkships, In-House Counsel, Practice Pointers
House Rules: To Clerk, Or Not…
Should you apply for a clerkship as an experienced attorney? Some thoughts from David Mowry. -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Partner Issues, Practice Pointers
House Rules: Standing Corrected?
A partner takes issue with some of in-house columnist David Mowry's tips on business development -- and offers some advice of his own. -
Education / Schools, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
In Defense of Law School: Because What Else Are You Going To Do With Yourself?
Current law students are far more intelligent than the critics of law school give them credit for. In going to law school, these students are just trying to make the best of a bad situation. -
Job Searches, Law Schools
Need Résumé Help? Don’t Bother Career Services, They Might Be Too Busy.
Career services offices are doing triage; are law schools giving them the resources they need?
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Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50…
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How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
Sign up and join us for our CLE webinar. From importing your checklist to delivering the closing book, you can bolster client service throughout the…
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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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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work.
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Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Practice Pointers
House Rules: The Truth About Getting Work From Me
How can young lawyers grow their books of business? Some tips from in-house columnist David Mowry. -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Partner Issues, Tax Law, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Inside Straight: The Best Things I Heard in 2012
In-house columnist Mark Herrmann reminisces about 2012. -
Ask the Experts, Associate Advice, Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Lawyers
From the Career Files: Getting Your Work Done (Part Two)
A member of the ATL Career Center's team of expert contributors offers some practical advice for associates on how to get their work done. -
In-House Counsel, Practice Pointers
Moonlighting: Getting Business People to Listen to You
In-house columnist Susan Moon discusses why the tone and delivery of lawyers' advice and counsel is important to business clients. -
Job Searches, Ted Frank
Successful Lawyer Exhorts New Lawyers To Be More Successful
Telling unemployed lawyers to "stop complaining" isn't necessarily the most helpful advice... -
9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Federal Judges, Federalist Society, Law Schools, Videos
Messing With Chief Judge Kozinski
Chief Judge Kozinski identifies his favorite opinion, explains why he reads Playboy, offers tips for getting ahead in the legal profession, and warns you not to bring mom to your oral argument. -
In-House Counsel, Practice Pointers
Moonlighting: How Not to Network
In-house columnist Susan Moon has some tips on how you can avoid networking blunders this holiday season.