What Every Attorney Should Consider Before Accepting That First Offer
The interviewing process can certainly be overwhelming and exhausting.While you are anxious to receive that...
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How We Work on Client Files at Legal Authority
The process of working on client files at Legal Authority is quite complicated and works like this:
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The Benefits of Contacting Law Firms and Companies Without Openings
One of the questions we often receive at Legal Authority is why would you possibly want to send your...
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Top 10 Tips for Lateral Partners from those Who Made a Move
Keeping up with the latest on lateral partners and their movement in the industry is what enables us to help...
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Landing an In-house Legal Job – 3 Important Tips
Recruiters usually don’t cover in-house legal jobs at all. You may not realize this until you look...
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Low Grades Should Not Stop You from Landing a Great Legal Job
The belief goes like this, “If you are not in the top 10% of your class, you are not likely to get a good...
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5 Tips for Targeting Your Job Search as the Economy Recovers
Many new college graduates take a similar, passive approach to attempting to gain employment: Post a resume on...
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How to Land Your First Job as a Lawyer
Students fresh out of law school have little better than a 50-50 shot at landing a job as a lawyer within nine...
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Getting a Job in the Legal Field - A More Serious Issue than Getting the Degree
A legal career is gaining momentum and is rising up with many other job options. Many are getting attracted...
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How to Land Your First Job as an Attorney
Everyone wants to begin on the right foot, and it’s no different for law graduates. Finding the right first...
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Law Firm Economics and Lateral Hiring
Law firm economics are no longer reserved only for managing partners and members of the management committee....
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Law Firm Lateral Recruiting Process Complex
The lateral recruiting process in law firms is more complex and takes more time than the law student...
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Lateral Hiring and General Rules
In the turbulent legal job market, lateral hiring has become a common phenomenon in law firm circles. "Cherry...
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Finding New Law Associate Positions
The key to finding a position as a third-year student is to determine which firms are hiring. Some firms hire...
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Locating Legal Employment after Third-Year
It's not unusual in the current job market to be a third-year student without law firm job prospects by the...
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Second-Year Hiring in Small Law Firms
I've talked a lot about how large and medium-sized firms hire students for their summer programs. But your...
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General Legal Job-Hunting Tips
No matter what type of legal job you are looking for, or when, the following general tips and guidelines...
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Other Public Bodies Apart From Local Government Where You Can Look for Law Jobs
Separate from local government there is a range of public bodies that also employ solicitors. These bodies...
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Legal Profession beyond Private Practice
When we talk of the legal profession there is a tendency to think mostly of solicitors and perhaps as an...
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Law Jobs at the Local Government in United Kingdom
Local authorities throughout the United Kingdom employ a significant number of solicitors, usually in legal...
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Traineeships in Scotland
Traditionally, vacancies in the job market are made known through adverts in newspapers or relevant...
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Legal Careers Other Than Traineeships
For students who do not want a traineeship in either the private or public sector, but who are interested in a...
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Traineeships in England and Wales
The profession in England and Wales is proportionately much larger than that of Scotland and this may explain...
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The Legal Profession and Its Job Opportunities
The main employment opportunities in the law are to be found in:
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Law Job Interviews for Women and Employment Barriers They Face
Job interviews can be unpleasant because, despite the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's guidelines...
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Career Opportunities in Law
Although it may seem quite early to begin to think about employment after law school, many prelaw students ask...
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Getting Into a Good Law Firm
Any clown can get a job as a lawyer. The goal is to get a good job. It's a complicated process, and it starts...
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Openings for Lawyers at Non-legal Firms
Banks, insurance companies, law libraries, legal publishers and judicial clerkships (taking the liberty of...
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Attorney Openings in the Federal Government
Almost every reader will rightly assume that the magnitude and diversity of the federal government's annual...
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