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Meet Your New Officemate
So you’ve made the big move to Big Law, LLP. You’re a mid-level associate and you’re ready to get started. You arrive at the building and the H.R. person shows you to your office…and introduces you to your officemate. Officemate? Aren’t we a little old to be sharing a dorm room? Unfortunately, lots [...]
Much Ado About Nothing? Not So Fast…
So, you graduated from law school and you’ve been working in your chosen practice for a few years. But it’s time to move on from your current firm to something bigger and better (or smaller and tamer). You sent out your resume, crafted an ingenious short but sweet cover letter, and now [...]
Finding Industry Publications
It occurred to me that my post yesterday did a less than stellar job at pointing you in the right direction, when it comes to finding industry publications. Hopefully, your law firm already has a subscription to those newsletters and magazines affecting your client and your practice. If not, here are a couple of places [...]
Knowing Your Industry and Your Client
I admit it. I used to receive a daily newsletter at my last law firm, discussing the latest news and events in the bankruptcy industry, and ordinarily I’d just toss it aside. There was too much work to be done, time to be billed, clients to call, partners to please!
When the work slowed [...]
Did You Hear the One About….?
Did you hear the one about the junior associate who wrote a nasty email about his boss and, instead of sending it to his friend, he sent it to his entire law firm? This morning I was forwarded another one of those notorious emails, wherein a junior associate slams a partner, supposedly on the [...]
The Big Law Sacrifice
I recently conducted an informal survey of junior associate friends working at urban law firms, asking them what they disliked most about working for a big law firm. One person responded:
Hours, followed by unrealistic client demands, followed by stress, caused by hours and unrealistic client demands.
Another person stated simply:
The billable hour system is awful [...]
The Big Payback
What’s the shiny new accessory that most junior lawyers are wearing around town these days? Why, golden handcuffs, of course — courtesy of the rising price of law school. A vast majority of law school graduates are now facing $50,000-$75,000 in student loan debt repayment, making effective debt management a chief concern and a [...]
Say It With Me: Networking, Networking, Networking…
My first networking experience came in the form of a holiday toy drive for children, full of bankruptcy lawyers and accountants and complete with an open bar and (yes) a giant buffet. I was a first year associate at a small firm, coming down with a cold and feeling overtired from working 15 hour [...]
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