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- Working Smart: Playing Well With Others
- Going In-House and the Effect on Work/Life Balance
- Winston & Strawn Opens in Houston With Several Howrey Lawyers
- The Psychic Rewards of Law Firm Partnership
- Turn Your Law Firm's Summer Program Into a Psych Lab
- MoFo Real Estate Partner Moves to Shartsis
- Employment Picture Improving for Recent Law Grads, NALP Reports
- Sotomayor: Inequality in Education Biggest Hurdle to Diversity
- New 'U.S. News' Law School Rankings Revamp Tiers
- Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm?
- Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm?
| Working Smart: Playing Well With Others | Top |
| Attorneys need relationship-building skills from day one, notes consultant Valerie Fontaine. Not only must you be able to work well with others in your law firm or office, but also all of the legal knowledge in the world will do you and your clients no good if you cannot relate to one another. | |
| Going In-House and the Effect on Work/Life Balance | Top |
| Big Law associates everywhere covet the opportunity to go in-house, says former Big Law senior associate Jason Mark Anderman. In the first part of a two-part series, Anderman discusses his decision to go in-house, and how the move changed his quality of life compared to his law firm days. | |
| Winston & Strawn Opens in Houston With Several Howrey Lawyers | Top |
| Taking advantage of the demise of Howrey, Winston & Strawn opened a Houston office on Wednesday staffed by most of the lawyers who had worked in Howrey's Houston office. Howrey's Houston office managing partner Stephen Cagle says Winston had extended offers to all of the lawyers in his office. | |
| The Psychic Rewards of Law Firm Partnership | Top |
| Beyond the obvious financial rewards of making partner, the title carries with it a wealth of psychic rewards: respect from peers and family, greater autonomy and accountability, and, for many, a feeling of relief. The Recorder spoke with several new partners about their experiences. | |
| Turn Your Law Firm's Summer Program Into a Psych Lab | Top |
| Now that law firms are using psychological screening tests on potential associates, The Snark asks, why stop there? Stretch those summer program and psych test dollars further by hiring a professional to craft a battery of good, old-fashioned, live-action psychological experiments. | |
| MoFo Real Estate Partner Moves to Shartsis | Top |
| Shartsis Friese doesn't add laterals very frequently. But when it does, it's often from Morrison & Foerster. The San Francisco business and litigation firm has announced that real estate partner Derek Boswell, who had been at MoFo for the past seven years, has joined as partner. | |
| Employment Picture Improving for Recent Law Grads, NALP Reports | Top |
| New figures from the National Association for Law Placement show that offer rates to summer associates rose from the historic low of 69 percent in 2009 to 87 percent in 2010. | |
| Sotomayor: Inequality in Education Biggest Hurdle to Diversity | Top |
| Inequality in education is the most pressing issue of diversity in the United States, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said as she accepted an award Friday from the Philadelphia Bar Association for her accomplishments in diversifying the legal profession. The award will be renamed in her honor. | |
| New 'U.S. News' Law School Rankings Revamp Tiers | Top |
| The latest law school rankings from U.S. News & World Report are out, and the real attention-getter on this year's list may not be specific rankings, but the extension of numerical rankings beyond the top 100 and elimination of the old alphabetically listed third and fourth tiers. | |
| Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm? | Top |
| After 15 years at a litigation boutique, I need to move on. Do I go in-house or move to another firm? And any networking advice? | |
| Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm? | Top |
| I am a lawyer currently working for a Big 4 accounting firm, and I'd like to transition to a law firm and practice tax law. Is it true this is a difficult move? Any advice on making the transition easier? | |
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