This short list of practical networking advice from a recent New York Law Journal article is not only useful in and of itself, but serves as a useful reminder of the importance of networking in any job search.
Practical Networking Advice
How To Get a U.N. (or other IGO) Job
Here’s a link to an interesting post from PSLawnet’s blog (which we include in our Public Interest blogroll on the right side bar) about landing a summer or permanent position wtih inter-governmental organizations like the UN or the World Bank.
Building A Network and Personal Brand Early In Your Career
Good advice in today’s Legal Intelligencer (via law.com) on the importance of investing in relationships, expanding your network and developing a personal brand at the beginning of your legal career — even before you graduate.
Demand For Legal Services Remained Flat in Q-1 2010
The well-known legal business consulting firm Hildebrandt Baker Robbins just published a report of its Peer Monitor Index, which includes information about key law firm business metrics for January – March of 2010. You can read a summary of the report here. You can read the whole thing here. Among other things, the report concludes that, on […]
Podcast Predicting Economic Prospects For Firms in 2010
Thought you might be interested in this short (about 6 min.) interview with the person who runs the Peer Monitor. You can access the podcast at Thomson Reuter’s Legal Current blog here. (Hat tip: legal industry consultant Hildebrandt’s blog). FYI — We’ve blogged about the extremely helpful Peer Monitor Index before here and here. The Peer Monitor system […]
The Changing Associate Recruiting and Compensation Models
Last Thursday’s New York Times has an interesting article about how firms are developing new ways to hire, train, promote and compensate associates in light of “recessionary pricing pressures.” In addition, a recent e-newsletter article (consisting of comments from a senior advisor with Blaqwell, a prominent legal industry consulting firm) in the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) expressed consistent […]
Reflections on the “Mommy Track”
Interesting reflection about the “work-life” balance issue (which we used to hear more about prior to the Great Recession) in Slate. Its written by a 1993 Harvard Law School graduate who did both the “fast” track and the “Mommy Track.” Those are her terms, though part of her article asks whether there aren’t better ones. Among other things, she […]
Legal Market Experts Predict Another Flat Year
Hildebrandt Baker Robbins and Citigroup’s Citi Private Bank division just issued a joint Client Advisory, which among other things, predicts that revenue (and profits) at large law firms will be flat to ever so slightly up for 2010. The report also identifies a number of trends observed in 2009. Hildebrandt is one of the largest […]
Early Results Show 2009 Stable Revenues/Profits for BIGLAW
The AmLaw Daily published two recent articles here (focussing on California firms) and here (providing the national picture) about how large law firms finished the year financially. The upshot is that most firms were either flat or up or down by a few percentage points, which is better than many experts predicted earlier in 2009. The […]
More On Fundamental Changes To the BIGLAW Business Model
The American Lawyer published the results of its annual Law Firm Leaders Survey. The details are available by subscription only, but they are accompanied by an interesting article from AmLaw’s publisher, which you can find here. Among the key findings: A majority of the heads of the 142 of the AmLaw 200 law firms reported “seeing […]