Evaluating and Negotiating Law Job Offers
Candidates often are very excited when they finally receive an offer. It feels wonderful to know that you are...
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How Attorneys Use Headhunters and Answer Classified Ads
In addition to job prospecting and informational interviewing, scanning the classified ads should be a routine...
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‘Working A Room’ Techniques for Legal Job Prospecting
Consider using professional associations like the American Bar Association and local bar organizations as a...
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Exploration of the Legal Job Market
Once you can articulate your strengths, skills, motives and goals, you need to find out who would be...
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Identifying Contacts for Attorney Job Search
The primary goal in conducting library research is to identify people to contact and develop thoughtful...
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Requirement of Self-Assessment for Lawyers
Ideally, work is supposed to be fun. However, if you are looking for a job right now, fun may be the furthest...
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Transferable Lawyering Skills
This article is a form of exercise that focuses on two kinds of skills: transferable and legal skills. It will...
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How to Get You Started On Attorney Job Search
Whether you are in a job search voluntarily or involuntarily, you are no doubt asking yourself questions like:
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Weighing the Attorney Job Search Process
Most lawyers think of the job search as a linear process-respond to ads by drafting resumes and cover letters,...
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Tips to Get You Started on Legal Job Search
Many attorneys, searching for a logical reason for their predicament, create barriers for themselves by...
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Entering the Legal Job Market and Competing for Attorney Jobs
Your law school Career Planning Center or a career counselor can assist you in identifying your motives,...
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Consider Your Attorney Job Search Options
In order to help you establish the focus of your job search, lawyers in transition ought to decide whether...
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Door-Knocking as a Tool for a Legal Professional
Door-knocking involves visiting offices unannounced, de-positing your resume and, rarely, speaking to a lawyer...
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Employment Options for New Law Grads
For new law graduates, employment by someone else is certainly more secure and requires less capital...
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The Best Methods of Approaching and Contacting Legal Employers
Ongoing or complete investigation sets the stage for the approach and contact of employers. It is too...
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Information-Gathering for Law-Job Search
The law-job search begins with information-gathering. Assemble as much information about your areas of...
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Successful Law-Job Search
The last law-school course - the job search - is usually the most difficult. This article provides tutorial...
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Pros and Cons of Going It Alone
Most lawyers in the United States are in private practice; meaning they are self-employed, rather than in...
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Where Do You Search for Job?
A job search, like charity, begins at home. Of all the various job sources, the most convenient - and at...
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Get to Know Yourself
To be successful in your job search, you must know what you are looking for. Knowledge of the job market, an...
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Hunting for the Right Job
Job hunting can be either a catastrophe or a triumph. From long experience in dealing with a variety of job...
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Selling Yourself for Your Next Legal Job
The statement, "You are unique," may not strike you as particularly profound. Of course you are unique; you...
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Legal Career -- Its Contours
The legal profession occupies a unique and enviable place in the American social order. Ever since our...
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Job Offers at Law Firms and Decision Making
How will you receive an offer? Will the offer be made through a phone call or letter? How much time will you...
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How Lawyers Need to Go About Job Hunting
Successful job hunting requires a set of skills which, once learnt, can be used repeatedly throughout your...
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Employer Research and Homework
As you may have gathered by now, finding a job involves a lot more effort than merely showing up for an...
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Legal Job Hunting Strategies
Much of the literature in the career planning and placement field fails to offer alternatives to traditional...
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The Role of Geographic Choice in Your Legal Career
For some individuals, geographic choice may be the most important element in the career planning process. Many...
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Writing Letters to Potential Employers
Whenever possible, call rather than write to prospective employers. The telephone offers many advantages: it...
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The Origin and History of Job Clubs
In a study in the 60s done by H.R. Sheppard, along with Robert Jones, a psychologist people were asked how...
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