Networking Advice

Moonlighting: How Not to Network

In-house columnist Susan Moon has some tips on how you can avoid networking blunders this holiday season.

Gradenfreude: Networking For Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Law School Graduates

An underemployed law school grad tried to network at his law school to get a job and failed, but at least he met a hot chick in the process.

Mr. Legal Entertainment: And The Emmy Goes To…

How can you market yourself in the world of entertainment law if you're just starting out? Thoughts from Sam E. Goldberg...

Prospective Student Pesters And Annoys Yale Faculty

A prospective law student's overzealous networking culminates in a rebuke from Yale Law School.

House Rules: Meta-Networking

Can you network your way into a slot as outside counsel?

Size Matters: How To Network Without Getting Wasted

Networking is tough, especially for introverts. Valerie Katz is here to help.

Career Center: Building Your Network on Campus

Networking is simply about connecting with people, and if your goal is to have a flourishing career as a lawyer, start building your network and acquiring networking skills now. Not sure where to start? Read on for Lateral Link’s top three tips on how to effectively build your network as a law student…

Career Center: Tips to Improve Your Network

Networking isn’t just for job seekers. And it isn’t even just for the rainmakers who bring in business. It’s what every attorney (and attorney-to-be) should be doing right now — whether you’re a first-year associate at a Biglaw firm or a senior attorney at a small regional firm. Too often, attorneys wait until they need […]

The Practice: Political Networking

There, of course, is a natural path from lawyer to legislator. But the low pay, travel, time commitment, and mud slinging that we see on TV and the internet turn many lawyers away from public service.The current political landscape also causes lawyers to be uninterested in participating in politics at any level, whether it means lobbying, running campaigns, fundraising, or attending political functions. It’s a mistake...

Dean of Students Gets Networking Advice All Wrong

A couple of days ago, Elie offered some networking advice to the functional alcoholics in the audience. Sure, his thoughts were a little bit outside the box, but they were better than the kind of standard networking tripe most law students get from their overmatched career services administrators. Case in point, take a look as some networking advice sent around by the Dean of Students at a New York-area law school just last week. The advice was perfect if the dean was trying to ensure that the students made no impression, and left all employers wondering why they bothered to show up for a silly networking event in the first place....