career management
1. Apply to every legal job posting you see. 2. Spend all of your free time searching online for job postings. 3. Mail your resume to every law firm in the area. 4. Apply for lawyer jobs you don’t want. 5. Ask for generic help. 6. Have no LinkedIn profile or just a...
career management
Writer Mike Scott interviewed me for today’s Detroit Legal News article for law students and new lawyers about standing out in today’s tight job market. When he called me, I thought of all the law students and recent graduates who spend most of their job...
career management
I saw these supposedly real life examples for new lawyers in a comment to an AboveTheLaw.com posting. The article doesn’t tell us anything new but I thought the comment’s examples of treating your law degree like some other kind of advanced degree in this...
career management
Ending a conversation & moving on. While speaking with a group of three law students for several minutes recently during a women lawyers happy hour, one of them looked me in the eye, smiled, extended her hand and in a confident voice said something like...
career management
Last week I spoke to law students again at the University of Michigan Law School. This time the topic was event networking. A few specific concerns came up that I’d like to share here in a few posts. This advice applies to lawyers as well as law students. I...
