By Martin Grayson
author, The View From the First Chair
Practice law long enough (say, more than a month), and you will end up in deposition with one or more loud, obnoxious, rude, rule-trampling, witness-coaching, usually foul-mouthed opposing counsel. This lawyer’s idea of defending a deposition—even when the deponent is not his witness—is to object to every [...]
In his new book The View from the First Chair: What Every Trial Lawyer Really Needs to Know, Martin L. Grayson defines a trial as follows–
“[N]othing less than a six-dimensional merry-go-round-jigsaw-puzzle-demolition-derby all playing out in your mind while you sit relatively passively at counsel table, trying to concentrate on 12 things [...]
Maybe you’re one of the lucky few; you actually have a job interview coming up. Well, it doesn’t have to be the interview-from-hell … not if you’re prepared. The following are some of the questions you might reasonably expect. And, of course, the one unspoken question is always, ‘Why should we hire you?” See what [...]
Leave it to US News & World Report to come up America’s 50 Best Careers … and forget to add lawyer to the list. But that’s what happened this week. Now that the economy is slowly recovering, US News examined the Labor Department’s job growth projections for 2008 to 2018. They were looking for occupations [...]
When it comes to finding work, career advisers will tell you there is no substitute for phone calls and handshakes. In a word, networking. We agree, and yet we’d be remiss if we didn’t pass along the six exceptional online job sites cited in this week’s US News & World Report. They are:
* www.Careerbuilder.com
* www.Monster.com
* [...]
Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse (record law school debt, job deferrals, law firm layoffs) the Wall Street Journal reports today that bad credit could sabotage your chances of finding work. According to the WSJ, a growing number of job hunters are discovering that their financial past – the sort of information that [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports this week that even though the US labor market is showing signs of improvement, conditions for older workers continue to deteriorate.
As of last month, the number of unemployed workers ages 55 to 64 has nearly tripled since the recession began. And while it is difficult to quantify just how [...]
2009 marks the worst year for lawyer headcount in 30 years. At the top 250 firms alone, the number of downsized attorneys rose by nearly 5,300 … even more if you calculate all the stealth firings and downsizing at smaller firms. But you already know the bad news. What isn’t generally known, is that a [...]
FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING MAY 10:
“It’s still a tough time, and the recession has hit the legal fields very hard. But we have hit bottom,” Dean Matthew Diller, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (quoted in New York Law Journal)
“The job market is the tightest in recent memory, but the idea that there are no jobs [...]
Rachel J. Littman, Esq.
How to stand out in a buyer’s market? You can spend a small fortune on job-finding books, but the assistant dean of career development at Pace Law School sums it up for you with 11 simple tips:
1. Be flexible – You may not be able to secure the job of your [...]