What’s the value of a law degree? $1M in a lifetime, report says. Debra Cassens Weiss, a senior writer/online, joined the ABA Journal staff in 1986. She has worked as a news researcher for WMAQ-TV in Chicago, as a reporter and editor at the City News Bureau of Chicago and as a newscaster at WMRO […]
Susan Gainen is a multiple entrepreneur, consulting to law schools and lawyers. Her current lecture series includes “Alternative Careers,” “Professionalism Has Attached,” and “Job Search Outside of OCI: The Forever Skill.” Ms. Gainen maintains a blog called “Pass the Baton” which contains various tips and useful information for law students and attorneys. She has spent the past […]
The following are the details about the Peggy Browning Fund Fifteenth Annual National Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference: When: October 25 & 26, 2013 Where: The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute, Linthicum Heights, MD Keynote Speaker: Craig Becker, AFL-CIO Friday Evening Film & Discussion: The Dignity & Worth of Labor; A showing of the film […]
DRI, the leading organization of defense attorneys and in-house counsel, is an international membership organization. DRI provides education, business development and networking opportunities to its members. DRI has 25 substantive law committees focused on developing cutting edge dialogue, resources and educational seminars on various areas of practice. Its members have access to tools, directories and […]
Sterling Educational Services, Inc. (Sterling) would like to offer 5 law students free scholarship-passes to an upcoming seminar as an introduction to their company. Sterling is a non-profit continuing education company that conducts seminars across the nation. Please visit us online for information on our company. They are holding Fundamentals of Employment Law seminar in […]
According to Intelligent Office of Miami, the use of a virtual office is not a universal panacea but there are many good reasons why they really make sense in these times. The key advantages are that they can get yourself operational fast and with a virtual foot on the ground in your chosen territory, for […]
August 16-17, 2013 University of Miami School of Law Faculty Meeting Room, Law Library (4th Floor) 1311 Miller Road, Coral Gables, FL, 33146 Sponsored by the Local Human Rights Lawyering Project at the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law and the Miami Law Human Rights Clinic. […]
Sterling Educational Services, Inc. (Sterling) would like to offer 5 law students free scholarship-passes to an upcoming seminar as an introduction to their company. Sterling is a non-profit continuing education company that conducts seminars across the nation. Please visit us online for information on our company. They are holding Residential Landlord-Tenant Law seminar in Fort […]
The latest edition of Chambers Associate 2013 has gone live on the website. What Chambers Associates offers students this year: The Inside View: Chambers Associates interviews thousands of junior associates to bring law students the best insider information to date More leading firms reviewed than ever before, with greater coverage across the US Comprehensive careers […]
Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, has dominated recent conversations with her book “Lean In—Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.” It is interesting to note how many of Sandberg’s “lessons” apply to lawyers generally (both men and women) and to summer associates specifically. This article in the Careerist gives the 10 essential tips from […]