Cover Letter and Resume for Legal Professionals
The cover letter, like all correspondence and writings sent to employers, should be typed on good bond paper...
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Practicing Law after Three Years of Law School
It has been said that the only job for which a student is qualified after three years of law school is that of...
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Bar Exams: The Final Hurdle
Perhaps you are wondering about bar examinations. You may be thinking,“ If I am not ready for practice law...
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What You Need to Know about Cover Letters
Enclose a covering letter whenever you send your resume to a prospective employer. While it rarely gives any...
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The Real World As Referred In the World of Law School
The world of work, often referred to in law school as "the real world" (as if law school were some kind of...
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Choosing a Bar Review Course
Law schools do not prepare students to take bar exams. At best, students are offered law courses, such as...
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Tackling Anxiety During Bar Exams
The discipline you have been developing in shifting your mindset about the bar exam, organizing your life,...
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Some Great Tips for Your Bar Exam Day
Get there on time: In most jurisdictions, you have pre-assigned seats. But if possible, request a seat by the...
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Reasons Not to Combine Two Bar Exams
When I am asked whether a student should take two (or more) bar exams, I answer, "NO." My answer is contrary...
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The Different Types of Bar Exams
Almost every jurisdiction has a bar exam, which must be passed as part of its admission criteria. Wisconsin is...
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Maintaining A Positive Perception of the Bar Exam
When we sit alone to study for the bar exam, many of us hear negative voices: "No, you can't." "It's...
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Popular Bar Review Courses and Resources
Below is a partial listing of the courses offered nationally and a sampling of these in New York and...
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Stopping the Cycle of Failure in Bar Exams
You may have taken the bar exam so often that you've given up hope of ever passing it. You may have tried...
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Overcoming Perceived and Real Bias in the Bar Exam
The challenge of staying in a "Yes I Can" mode is especially daunting for minority candidates. Throughout law...
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Learning to Keep Time on Your Side When Going for the Bar Exams
"I can’t" Maybe this is your first response to the idea of learning multiple areas of law, listening to...
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Techniques for Passing the Bar Exam
There are techniques to answering bar exam questions. After having read more than my share of essay, MBE and...
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Self-Discipline Tips for the Bar Exams
I give a bar exam lecture on organization. My thesis is that if you organize your life and study routine, a...
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Breaking the Bar Exam Barrier
Imagine yourself the day before the bar exam. You are too excited to sleep, but you make yourself do so...
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How to Study for the Bar Exam
There was a student at my alma mater, who was notorious for sitting in the lunchroom all day, playing bridge....
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Acquiring Legal Clients After Completing Law School
A good time to start is when you just get out of law school. Most likely, you will be single then, and other...
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Preparing Non-Legal Cover Letters
A cover letter is an introduction. You use a cover letter to market your skills and abilities to the employer...
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Conquering the Bar Exam: Knowing Thy Enemy
Tips on the Day of the Bar ExamFirst and foremost, when you are taking a test for multiple days, you want to...
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The Different Policies of Various State Bar Associations Regarding the Transfer of MBE Scores from One Jurisdiction to Another
One major motivator for students to focus a large portion of exam preparation time on the Multistate Bar...
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The Multistate Bar Examination(MBE) for Law Graduates
Recent law graduates who live in areas where courts of multiple states are equally accessible, or those...
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Graduated From a Tier 3 Law School: There’s much you can do with your degree
What you do with your tier 3 law school degree depends on you: Graduating from a tier 3 law school does not...
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Careers in Law Enforcement for Law Graduates – Part 1
Careers in law enforcement have always offered one of the major alternative career paths for lawyers.
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Planning and Managing Student Loan Debt Repayments Part-2
When you are thinking of repaying your student loans do not miss the following.
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Planning and Managing Student Loan Debt Repayments Part-1
This series of articles is not about how you should take a student loan, or how much you should take, or...
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Paying for Your Degree: A Guide to Financial Aid
Not sure how to pay for three years of law school? Money doesn't grow on trees, but it does come in the form...
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Don’t Think Yourself into a Loser
Don’t let the bad news get to you. As a law student you’d already be aware that an average law student...
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