Ongoing Education
Just like your car, to run smoothly, your career will need check-ups and maintenance over its entire lifetime. FindLaw’s Ongoing Education section offers insight on topics important to managing your law career, such as creating longevity in the law, ways to retain high performers, managing a multi-generational workforce, LL.Ms and marketability, and making the most of your law firm experience. Career advice is not just for the new attorney; experienced practitioners can also take advantage of these important resources. Attorneys need to keep abreast of evolving issues in their career, and FindLaw has helpful information to keep you "in the know" as your career progresses.
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Ongoing Education Articles
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Making the Most of Your Law Firm Experience
Leona Vogt, a highly regarded legal career consultant in the Boston area, shared with us her thoughts on "making the most of your law firm experience".
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LL.Ms and Marketability
Many attorneys spend tens of thousands of dollars to obtain an LL.M. in a particular discipline after they have graduated from law school. Some enroll in LL.M.
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Customer Service in the Law
Working in the law, like working in most other professional fields, entails a certain amount of customer service. Some might say the customer service aspects of the job are the most important - especially if you want to get ahead in a large firm.
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Preparing for a Career in Law
In preparing for a career in law, questions arise on how to deal with certain challenges and how to put yourself on a path to success. Here are answers to two common questions facing students as the prepare to practice law.
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Advice For New Associates From a Global Chair of Recruiting
Learn what advice Global Chair of Recruiting for Latham & Watkins, Tracy Edmonson, has for new associates.
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How to Create Longevity in the Law
There's no denying that the cliffs of white-collar ville are being eroded by tides of technological change. How can you stay relevant?
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Law Letters: Conversations From an Attorney Career Forum
See what one author has learned from attorneys' discussion of the topic "Finding Satisfication in the Law."
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High School Preparation for a Law Career
I'm a freshman in high school and I've been told that some of the classes you take in high school could help increase your chance of becoming a successful lawyer and my question is what classes do you suggest I take.
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Six Ways to Get the Most Value For Your Time
How can you find efficiencies in your work and ways to make the most out of your precious time? Here are our six suggestions.
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Inside Tips From a Recruiting Partner
Robert E. Williams, recruiting partner for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, shares his inside tips that every inspiring attorney should know.
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Lawyers and Narcissistic Entitlement Syndrome
One of the greatest problems facing young associates inside law firms is what I call Narcissistic Entitlement Syndrome ("NES").
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Partnership Dilemmas
We see it all the time: A graduate of a top law school (or wherever) joins a large highly regarded law firm in a major city. The panic, if it can be called that, sets in quickly.
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Top 10 Ways To Retain High Performers
Despite the economic slowdown, voluntary employee turnover — coupled with retention of valued workers — remain critical issues. This is a marked contrast to previous downturns.
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Mastering the Maze of Business Filings: Corporate Research Tools for Paralegals
In a complex and ever-changing corporate world, it is essential for paralegals to master corporate research tasks and tools.
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Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce: Tips for Leveraging the Labor Pool’s Demographic Strengths
While human resource professionals have amassed quite a body of knowledge on how to assemble and sustain a competent, loyal workforce, they face a daunting challenge over the next 10 years. The talent pool is getting significantly older.
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