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- JD Match Aims to Fix the Law Firm Recruiting Process
- Recent Grads Report Satisfaction With 'Real World' Training in Law School
- Pulp-and-Paper Deal Lawyer Switches From Troutman to K&S
- The Attributes of Winning Lawyers
- Atlanta Lawyer Plays Himself in New Reality TV Show
- New Largest Minority-Owned Law Firm Snags Yoss Remnants
- Working Smart: It's All About a 'Me File'
- O'Melveny Program Helps New Parents Return to Firm
- N.Y. State Bar Recommends Firms Restructure, Change Practices
- Technology Examined as Means to Improve Legal Education
- Should I Aim for In-House or Another Law Firm?
- Tips on Transitioning From Accounting Firm to Law Firm?
| JD Match Aims to Fix the Law Firm Recruiting Process | Top |
| The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog lifted the curtain Monday on JD Match, an algorithm-based product that seeks to pair firms with job-seeking law students based on each others' rankings. JD Match's driver -- consultant and Adam Smith, Esq. blogger Bruce MacEwen -- discusses the new service in a Q&A. | |
| Recent Grads Report Satisfaction With 'Real World' Training in Law School | Top |
| Pulp-and-Paper Deal Lawyer Switches From Troutman to K&S | Top |
| Deal lawyer William C. "Cal" Smith III jumped from a partnership at Troutman Sanders to one at King & Spalding last week. He has carved out a niche representing forest products companies, stemming from contacts he made during a stint in-house at Georgia-Pacific Corp. | |
| The Attributes of Winning Lawyers | Top |
| Consultant Frank Michael D'Amore has identified 10 traits that most often define a successful lawyer, based on his discussions with lawyers and business executives, and his own observations. In part one of a two-part series from The Legal Intelligencer, he identifies five of those winning traits. | |
| Atlanta Lawyer Plays Himself in New Reality TV Show | Top |
| Antavius M. Weems is a lawyer in real life, and now he's playing one on a TV reality show featuring Toni Braxton and her family. Weems acknowledged the risk in using a reality show to promote his legal career, but notes that as Braxton's attorney, he gets some control over how he's portrayed. | |
| New Largest Minority-Owned Law Firm Snags Yoss Remnants | Top |
| Milwaukee-based Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan has become the new largest minority-owned law firm after the demise of Adorno & Yoss last month. The firm announced on Thursday the opening of a new Boston office with the hire of five former Adorno & Yoss lawyers for a total of 18 offices and 80 attorneys. | |
| Working Smart: It's All About a 'Me File' | Top |
| When it comes to advancing your career, it helps to be self-centered. To thrive in good economic times -- or survive in slow ones -- you must demonstrate your value to your organization's bottom line, and a well-stocked "Me File" can help you do that, says consultant Valerie Fontaine. | |
| O'Melveny Program Helps New Parents Return to Firm | Top |
| On Friday, O'Melveny & Myers officially launched a program -- said to be unique among major U.S. law firms -- for attorneys who are new parents, connecting them with a coach who will help with the plunge back into professional life by talking them through the transition's practical realities. | |
| N.Y. State Bar Recommends Firms Restructure, Change Practices | Top |
| The New York State Bar Association on Monday released a report that suggests ways firms can restructure and change business practices, as the legal field faces a number of challenges. Among the suggestions: use experienced contract attorneys and expand the use of alternative fee arrangements. | |
| Technology Examined as Means to Improve Legal Education | Top |
| More than 100 lawyers, deans and law professors met last week for the last of a series of conferences dubbed "Future Ed." Participants pitched and voted on ideas for leveraging technology to improve law school education; the top vote-getter was called Apps for Justice: Learning Law by Creating Software. | |
| 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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