Q: I failed my state bar exam. Will I be fired from the law firm where I work?
A: Failing the bar once, even more than once, is demoralizing and depressing. But it happens, and, yes, it happens to graduates of Ivy League and Tier One schools. Most BigLaw firms will hand out a ‘Get Out [...]
Q: Are law firms making hiring decisions now based on more than traditional interviews and GPA?
A. Yes. At least one BigLaw firm (McKenna, Long and Aldridge) has gone “corporate” to make sure they make the right hiring decisions. Soon after the recession hit in 2007, the firm’s hiring committee identified the factors and characteristic of [...]
SEATTLE, Nov. 8 – Twenty percent of America’s lawyers practice in towns smaller than 50,000 population, but with the legal job market still in free-fall more lawyers than ever before are actively considering opening a small town or rural practice.
In the absence of any current resources, LawyerAvenue Press, publisher of Solo By Choice, signed Bruce [...]
California trial attorney Martin Grayson, author of The View From the First Chair: What Every Trial Lawyer Really Needs to Know, is the subject of a future profile in Student Lawyer magazine. It’s a wide-ranging interview, but one section caught our attention as it applies to students who see a future for themselves in court. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]