What do you say to a recent law school graduate?
“A double-shot latte to go, please.”
Cruel but often true.
From New York to LA, the downturn of the past two years has hit the legal profession with unprecedented severity … and it’s certainly not limited to new grads. Tens of thousands of lawyers and staff [...]
According to the Institute of Women’s Policy Research, working women on average earn only about 77 cents for every dollar that men earn (up from 59 cents in 1965), and part of the pay gap may be explained as a result of what happens at the salary negotiation table.
A recent story in the New York [...]
By Ellen Ostrow, Ph.D.
Law Career Consultant
An extremely bright and accomplished woman attorney explained to me why it was impossible for her to do anything but practice law at this point in her life. Having worked in both government and private settings, she was certain she had a clear idea of what her chosen profession entailed, [...]
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 [...]