Anonymous Recruitment Director Answers Your Email Questions (Part 2)
How do law firms assess job moves on a résumé, and how do they feel about different types of prior non-Biglaw experience?
Anonymous Recruitment Director Answers Your Email Questions (Part 1)
Have a question about getting a job in Biglaw? Anonymous Recruitment Director answers many of them here.
Chrometa: Turning Time Into Billable Value For Modern Lawyers
Adoption of Chrometa represents more than a technological upgrade; it reflects a professional philosophy that values accuracy, transparency, and efficiency.
11 Tips For The Biglaw Interview Day
What can you do to translate that interview into a job offer?
Recruitment Staff Pet Peeves
Maybe you can benefit from these disclosures. This anonymous recruitment director certainly hopes so...
Back In The Race: The Decision To Close Up Shop
Shannon Achimalbe has a dream and plans to make it a reality.
From The Career Files: Your Second Job Out Of Law School
Joshua Stein provides practical suggestions for lawyers looking to go solo or move on to another law firm.
How Innovative Legal Teams Are Turning AI From Promise To Practice
In recent years, AI has moved beyond speculation in the legal industry. What used to be hypothetical is now very real.
Résumés: The Harsh Reality
What are law firms looking for in a résumé? Anonymous Recruitment Director reveals all.
Strategic Career Choices And (Yawn) Cover Letters
How can you break into Biglaw if you didn't get a summer associate job as a 2L?
From The Career Files: Tips On Five Key Pieces Of The Law School Application
Ann K. Levine, a law school admission consultant and owner of LawSchoolExpert.com, offers helpful tips for law school applicants.
Don’t Lie On Your Résumé — Even If You’re A Partner
Legal secretaries and other support staffers aren't the only ones getting fired by Biglaw; partners who lie on their résumés get shown the door too.
AI + legal workflows: 5 plays that actually move the needle
Unsure where to start with AI? Learn 5 law firm workflows that can improve intake, conflicts, drafting, docketing, and time tracking—plus prompts, ethics tips, and steps for real ROI.
From the Career Files: Biglaw Practice Today — Damn The Torpedoes
Sarah Powell of Duke Law offers four benefits of working at a Biglaw firm: résumé gold, training, flexibility, and pro bono.
From the Career Files: How to Improve Your Résumé This Summer If You’re Applying This Fall
Anna Ivey helps pre-law students figure out how to improve their resume for fall law school applications.
From the Career Files: What to Expect If You’re Planning on Applying to Law School (Part II)
You’ll probably be producing at least 10 separate pieces of writing when you apply to law school. That’s manageable, right?
Morning Docket: 01.23.13
Ed. note: We apologize for getting such a late start today, but we were experiencing some technical difficulties. Thanks for being patient with us. * Barack Obama made some bold statements about marriage equality in his inaugural address, but the jury is still out — literally — on whether he thinks laws banning same-sex couples from marrying are constitutional. [BuzzFeed] * You can smoke pot for sh*ts and giggles in several states, but the D.C. Circuit is siding with the DEA on this one. Marijuana is still classified as a Schedule I drug in the eyes of the (federal) law. [National Law Journal] * With claims of prejudicial evidence, Rajat Gupta is trying to get his insider trading conviction overturned. We’ll wait for more on this story from note passer field correspondent, Benula Bensam. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)] * Here are some tips on how you can refine the résumé that will accompany your law school application — but make sure you get the accents aigus right, or else. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report] * “Why are all high school teachers freaks in the sacks?” Sarah Jones, the cheerleader-cum-sexy teacher, cried over phrases like that yesterday during testimony in her defamation case against The Dirty. [ESPN] * George W. Huguely V, the UVA lacrosse bro who was convicted of killing his sometimes girlfriend, has got one hell of an appellate lawyer. Perhaps famous litigator Paul Clement is a friend of the family. [Bloomberg]
From the Career Files: The First Step in Leaving Law Behind — It’s the Money, Stupid
A member of the ATL Career Center's team of expert contributors offers some practical advice for unhappy attorneys who want to leave the law.