If you’re thinking a legal career may not be the thing for you, a career in business development might be worth investigating. It requires analytical thinking, excellent communications skills, and an eye for detail. You already possess these traits, and law school is honing them further. First, what is business development? Ask any ten businesscritters [...]
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Alternate Careers for Law School Grads: Business Development
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Are You Entering A Guild?
I’m not a career counselor. I haven’t even played on TV. However, I did make it through three years of law school and obtain a J.D., only to skip the bar exam and go directly to work in a field completely unrelated to the law. So please take these thoughts as they are intended – [...]
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Getting A Job
There are a lot of articles and blog posts about how much it sucks to be graduating from law school right now. Firms aren’t hiring, and getting a non-legal job is difficult, too. You’ve heard it all by now, I’m sure. So how can you prepare yourself now for this treacherous environment? I would be [...]
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NALP Reports Median Associate Starting Pay of $130k
I do wonder if sampling bias is at work here. In any event, the figure of $130k doesn’t apply if you’re going to a small firm: While the median starting pay was $130,000 overall, it ranged from $70,000 in firms of 2 to 25 lawyers to $135,000 in firms of 501 to 1,000 lawyers, and [...]
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Alternatives for Law Grads
I received a note lat week indicating that Santa Clara Law (my alma mater) had put together a June 24th program for “job-seeking law graduates” seeking resume and interview assistance, financial planning advice, stress management tips, social networking insights, and ideas for “leveraging your legal background for new opportunities.” The latter is the most interesting [...]
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