Using the Summer to Maximize Success for Legal Recruiting and Job Searching

April is coming to a close and May is approaching, which means law students are preparing for exams and excited for the summer. One of the most common questions I receive during this time comes from law students and legal...

Legal Job Spotlight: Pursuing a Career in Tax Law

Are there still legal jobs out there? More people are graduating with law degrees than there are law jobs. This may change in a few more years as the overall job market is better than it was in recent years...

The ABC’s of Marketing Yourself as the Best Attorney for the Job

The best lawyers who land the best law jobs have the uncanny ability to promote and market themselves. In law firm positions, they promote themselves to partners and clients to handle high stakes matters, elevating their profiles. In-house attorneys have...

Don’t Let a Foolish Answer Stop You From Landing The Best Law Jobs

Positioning yourself to land the best law job means impressing legal recruiters and employers. Although most lawyers and law students are comfortable with writing persuasively, many squander the opportunity to maximize making a great impression during their interviews or when...

Developing Emotional Agility to Thrive in Any Legal Job

Why do most attorneys who are already employed with legal jobs looking for other law firm jobs? There are many answers, but I have found that the most common issue that the many reasons boil down to is this: the...

Happy Lawyers Get the Best Law Jobs

What makes a happy lawyer? Do they even exist? (Yes…they do). Does the job make the lawyer, or does the lawyer make the job? Are certain types of practices like immigration law or working in a family law court more...

The Key to Successful Law Firm Hiring is Your Reputation

In the 80’s, Joan Jett made a famous song about not caring about a “bad reputation.” It was a fun song that helped springboard her career—but what worked for her music career is not something that works well in a...

Lawyer + [Something Else] = Best Law Job

What are the best law jobs? Is it in immigration, or real estate? Is it in corporate law? If you ask lawyers about their jobs, you will find that the most fulfilled lawyers are “lawyers + [something else].” These are...

Where Have All the Partners Gone?

After working so hard to make partner, why would a partner ever leave one firm to join another? It has become increasingly common for partners to lateral to another firm—and many make partner with the motivation to lateral in mind....

Millennials and Digital Communities Reshaping the Legal Profession in 2018

What’s Reshaping the Legal Profession in 2018? Granted, we are only two months into the new year. While there aren’t specific shakeups that haven’t already been identified in 2017, this year will be marked by two key shifts: 1) Millennial...