23 days ago

August marks the end of extravagant lunches and open bars, and the return to the starving-student lifestyle for this year's batch of summer associates. This time of year also presents summers with a big, anxiety-inducing question: Am I getting The Offer -- i.e., an offer to return to The Firm on a m ...

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24 days ago

Last week, we gave you a post on on-campus interviewing (OCI) cancellations by law firms at three schools. We wondered whether it might be an emerging trend. The flood of e-mails and comments in response suggests that it is. We've compiled this long list for nervous law students. The following firms ...

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24 days ago

[ Ed. note: This post is by ALEX, one of the finalists in ATL Idol, the "reality blogging" competition that will determine ATL's next editor. It is marked with Alex's avatar (at right).] On-campus interviews are just around the corner. Biglaw firms are soldiering on with their recruiting efforts des ...

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26 days ago by jaime dunlap

...so we still haven't heard anything, email or otherwise, from the Educator program people. We've made a command decision, though, to come home tonight, as scheduled, and just deal with it as it comes. There are back-up plans and back-up plans for the back-up plans, so... To quote a certain little ...

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28 days ago

This sign captures the flavor of the past week in law firm news, including the massive layoffs at Cadwalader and the office closings at Akin Gump. If you have other tips for us, send them to us here. The law firm pain is starting to be felt even by those still in law school. We've been forwarded var ...

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29 days ago

Every now and then, we entertain requests for advice from our readers (even though, as we reminded you yesterday, we're not career counselors -- so take what we say with several grains of salt). Here's what we found in the mail bag today; I'm a summer associate at a BigLaw firm in DC. Our exit inter ...

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30 days ago by Chris Walters

Hey lazy! Are you still looking for a job? Maybe you're thinking about "embellishing" your work history a little more, then. However, according to CareerBuilder you should be careful, because "49 percent of hiring managers reported they caught a candidate lying on their resume," usually about things ...

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30 days ago by Chris Walters

Hey lazy! Are you still looking for a job? Maybe you're thinking about "embellishing" your work history a little more, then. However, according to CareerBuilder you should be careful, because "49 percent of hiring managers reported they caught a candidate lying on their resume," usually about things ...

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33 days ago by Theodore Henderson

Be 100% Focused on Your Goal One of the main reasons job searches are either unsuccessful or frustratingly slow is that either you aren’t sure what you want or you aren’t treating it as a “do or die goal”. What this means is simply that you need to have the perseverance and the will to refuse to acc ...

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34 days ago by good golly! miss molly

i think i'm moving home. the best my parents can offer me is a spot on the couch, but this is not even remotely intended to be a permanent situation and i think i will be infinitely happier there. it struck me randomly at work this week that although i always thought that i was the kind of person wh ...

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