Vivia Chen

Vivia Chen is a senior columnist at The American Lawyer and the creator of The Careerist blog.

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  • June 28, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    High-powered lawyers wear flip flops

    I rather dread this time of year, because this is when the big law firms in the land start looking like golfing camps. It's business casual season, which means that legions of lawyers--young a

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • September 23, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Selling your body is the last resort of the desperate and lawyers too

    What would you do if you're a law student desperate for cash, or a laid-off lawyer who's exhausted the usual channels of making a decent living? Don't be judgmental now. You know wha

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • December 7, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Careers: Screening recruits the Goldman Way

    Goldman Sachs has decided to share some of its goodies--and lawyers might be beneficiaries. But before you get too excited, some disclosures: The investment bank is NOT sharing year-end bonuses wit

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • March 25, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Do you have the look?

    "Branding" is the new big buzz word among the legal set these days--it's up there with "teamwork" and "collaboration" and other concepts strange and exotic to most

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • June 19, 2013 | The Careerist

    Sotomayor's Beloved $3 Million World

    Here's my roundup of news and gossip that you might have missed: 1. Are white justices too boring to command the big bucks? Who says you have to resign

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • July 29, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Moms who won't quit

    "I go to the office to get away from my children." Over a lunch of gazpacho and ceviche at a Manhattan eatery, a senior lawyer at a Fortune 500 company blithely makes that confession. A moth

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • February 11, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Gender gap on Wall Street, but to top women bankers care?

    For a company that sets the bar for management, training, and all things associated with corporate excellence, I'm shocked at how badly Goldman Sachs's chief strategist, Abby Joseph Cohen (pict

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • September 21, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Prosecutor suspended over S&M activities

    News Roundup--Dominatrices, Kiss-Ups, and In-Housers: Shall we start with the serious or the absurd? Is there any doubt I'll start with the silly stuff?

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • July 7, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    WASP law firms finally dead?

    Harvard law professor Noah Feldman had some very nice things to say about WASPs (in case you forgot, that stands for "White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant") and their contribution to diversity in an op-ed

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

  • May 17, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Dumb, dumber, dumbest

    There's no shortage of inappropriate/bad/weird behavior by members of the legal profession in the news. Here are some top contenders for the week: Sore loser of the week:/stro

    By Vivia Chen

    1 minute read

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