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Legal Profession
The Broken Briefcase: A Symbol Of Hard Work and Commitment
Friday, May 24, 2013
One young attormey's reflections on the challenges and struggles — but also the joys and ultimate rewards — of building his own practice.
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Some Firms Try an Alternative To On-Campus Interviews
Friday, May 24, 2013
One large firm created a buzz when it announced it was abandoning the on-campus interview model to recruit summer associates. Instead, the firm hosted spring cocktail receptions for students at six top law schools, where first-year students mingled with the firm's attorneys. The experiment was a success, but this approach might not be right for every firm.
What Lawyers Aren't Learning, and Why It Matters
Friday, May 24, 2013
Legal marketing is not a requisite component of the law school curriculum and it's certainly not anything conventionally and meaningfully addressed in summer associate programming. We need to address the gap in the lawyer production line: We are manufacturing technical specialists in a world that puts a lot more emphasis on business savvy.
Using Lessons From Your Education To Build a Legal Career
Friday, May 24, 2013
From the authors' point of view as administrators on either end of the law school experience, it is clear that many of the attributes sought by law school admissions committees are akin to those sought by prospective employers. They counsel students and attorneys to consider how the "soft skills" they relied on to gain entry to law school will serve them equally well as job seekers.
U.S. District Court Barely Coping With Sequester, Budget Freezes
Thursday, May 23, 2013
If a budget increase is not enacted for Fiscal Year 2014, we will be looking at a further erosion of the strength of the federal court system, despite the savings achieved in recent years by austerity measures.
Judicial Independence Is in Peril If Fit Judges Are Denied Tenure
Thursday, May 23, 2013
The drafters of the 1947 New Jersey Constitution did not contemplate that fit judges issuing unpopular rulings would be punished by nonreappointment.
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