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- How to Get an Internship in Law
- What Does Silence Mean When a Law Firm Fails to Respond to Your Application, or Interviews You and Then Goes Dark?
- 100+ of the Toughest Interview Questions Law Firm Ask Attorneys and Law Students and How to Answer Them
- The Only Six Factors Prestigious Law Firms Care about When Hiring Lateral Attorneys
- How to do a Telephone Screening Interview as an Attorney or Law Student: Why Most Attorneys and Law Students Fail Law Firm Telephone Screening Interviews
- Four Fatal Mistakes Highly Qualified Attorneys Make When Choosing Law Firms
- The Top 17 Reasons Law Firms Do Not Hire and Make Offers to Attorneys and Law Students: It's Not What You Think
- Why Every Attorney Should Look at Multiple Legal Markets When Doing a Job Search
- 21 Reasons You Will Never Get a Job with a Major Law Firm Now (or Ever Again)
- How Attorneys Can Excel in Second Round Law Firm Interviews and Get More Job Offers: A Complete Guide
- How the 'Invisible Hand' Operates in Law Firm Employment Decisions: The Top 12 Most Important Factors Firms Consider When Hiring (and Firing) Attorneys
- 40 Questions Attorneys and Law Students Should Ask in Law Firm Interviews and Questions You Can Ask the Law Firm Interviewer as Well
- Top 12 Reasons Attorneys and Law Students Do Not Get Law Firm Interviews: Why Law Firms Are Not Interviewing You
- The Five Things Employers Really Want to Know during a Law Firm Interview
- Why Lawyers Should Never Quit an Attorney Job Without Another Legal Job Lined Up: Law Firms Will Think You Were Fired, Crazy, Unmotivated and More
- Everything You Know About Finding a Legal Job Is Wrong: You've Likely Fallen for the Worst Piece of Attorney Job Search Advice Ever
- Why Every Attorney Needs to Apply to a Lot of Places (and Not Give Up) When Rejected
- How Law Firms Choose to Interview and Hire Attorneys and Law Students: The Only Three Questions Law Firms Evaluate Applicants By
- How Attorneys and Law Students Should Answer the Most Important Questions in Law Firm Interviews
- The Five Most Important Questions Law Firm Attorneys Should Ask Before Starting a Search for a New Law Firm Position
- How a Good Legal Recruiter Finds the Best in You and Communicates It to Employers: How to Define Your Unique Selling Proposition
- What Characteristics Should I Look for in a Legal Recruiter?
- The Top 10 Interview Tips for Law Students Interviewing With Law Firms
- Top 23 Law Firm Interview Tips for Attorneys and Law Students: How to Excel in Law Firm Interviews
- Top 6 Things Attorneys and Law Students Need to Remove from Their Resumes ASAP
- The #1 Thing Attorneys and Law Students Need to Say in Law Firm Interviews to Get Hired
- How Should Attorneys and Law Students Dress for Law Firm Interviews?
- How Attorneys and Law Students Should Write a Legal Resume: Resume Examples, Suggestions and Resources
Harrison's Perspectives ¬ Networking & Business Development ¬ Networking & Business Development
- How to Hire a Lawyer: Questions to Ask When Interviewing Attorney Candidates
- How to Beat the System and Stop Being a Profit-Driven Workaholic Attorney
- Top 9 Ways For Any Attorney To Generate a Huge Book of Business
- How Attorneys Can Network: Why Networking is Essential to Attorney Success
- Why Attorneys Need to Get Out of the Office and Get Involved in the Legal Community
- Why a Law Degree is Actually a Business License: Why Attorneys Should Treat their Legal Careers Like a Small Business
- Why Networking Is Essential to Your Success as an Attorney
- Why Law Firm Attorneys With More than Five Years of Experience Need to Think About Getting Portable Business Now
- How Attorneys Can Move their Portable Business and Legal Practices to New Law Firms: A Guide for Lateraling Law Firm Partners
Harrison's Perspectives ¬ Relocations & Practice Area Changes ¬ Relocations & Practice Area Changes
- The Challenges of Transitioning from Insurance Defense to Litigation
- The Degree of Flexibility with Experience Requirements in Law Job Listings
- A Guide to Understanding When Practicing Attorneys Can and Cannot Relocate to Different Markets
- Strategies for Attorneys Transitioning to More Prestigious Law Firms: Regional and Practice Area Insights
- One of the Most Important Decisions Attorneys Make When Searching for Positions Is Deciding Which Markets They Apply To
- Top 10 Reasons Attorneys Should Look at Multiple Markets in Their Job Search
- Why Relocating to a Different Market Is the Greatest (But Little Known) Way for a Law Firm Attorney to Get Ahead in the Legal Profession
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- The Top Fifteen Reasons Why You Should Not Be a Litigator: Most Attorneys Should Not Be Litigators
- Why Every Attorney Should Look at Multiple Legal Markets When Doing a Job Search
- How Attorneys Can Switch Legal Practice Areas: The Definitive Guide to Switching Legal Practice Areas for Attorneys
- How Much Do Practice Areas Vary from State to State? A Guide for Attorneys Looking for the Best Markets for their Practice Area
- How to Advance Your Career By Relocating to Another Area of the Country as an Attorney: Are You Relocation Material?
- How Lawyers Can Change Their Practice Area in a Law Firm
- How Attorneys Can Relocate and Practice Law Internationally and Overseas: The Best Practice Areas and Locations to Practice Law Overseas
- What Are the Challenges for American Attorneys Working in Australia?
- Can an Attorney Transition Back to a Law Firm After they Have Worked In-House?
- How Easy Is It to Relocate If You Went to a Second-Tier Law School?
- How Difficult Is It for Attorneys to Move from a Government Position to Law Firm Attorney Job?
- Why Relocating to Another Area of the Country is a Good Career Strategy for Attorneys
- Relocating to New York City from New Jersey
- When is it too Late for an Attorney to Switch Practice Areas?
- How Attorneys Can Move their Portable Business and Legal Practices to New Law Firms: A Guide for Lateraling Law Firm Partners
- When is the Best Time for an Attorney to Make a Lateral Move Between Law Firms
Harrison's Perspectives ¬ Specific Practice Areas ¬ Specific Practice Areas
- The Comprehensive Guide for Patent Attorneys: Navigating Market Dynamics, Job Opportunities, and Career Growth in 2025
- Commercial Litigation vs. Insurance Defense: Key Differences, Salaries, and Career Limitations
- The Ultimate Career Guide for Trust & Estates Attorneys: Strategies for Success, Job Search, and Long-Term Growth
- The Future of Patent Attorneys in an AI-Driven Legal Market: Job Prospects, Challenges, and Adaptation Strategies
- The Growing Demand for Trusts and Estates Attorneys: A Lucrative and Essential Practice Area
- The Ultimate Guide to Attorney Practice Areas: Everything You Need to Know for Career Success
- Viability of Switching Practice Areas for Attorneys: A Detailed Exploration
- Comprehensive Overview of Key Legal Practice Areas
- [TRANSCRIPT] Why Every Big Firm Practice Area Eventually "Self-Destructs" at Least Once Every Eight Years
- Exploring the Future of Law: Top High-Growth Legal Practice Areas for 2023
- Cracking the Legal Fortune: Top 10 Practice Areas with the Highest Salaries
- Economic and Geographic Forces of Practice Areas
- Navigating Legal Demand: Practice Areas and Economic Climates Across U.S. Cities
- 8 High-Demand Legal Practice Areas for Senior Attorneys Without Significant Portable Business
- What Is Government Contracts Law?
- What Is Entertainment And Sports Law?
- What is Energy Law?
- Likely Ranking of Attorneys in Different Practice Areas
- The Top Fifteen Reasons Why You Should Not Be a Litigator: Most Attorneys Should Not Be Litigators
- What Is It Like Working as a Corporate Lawyer: What Does a Corporate Lawyer Do?
- Are Insurance Lawyers Marketable?
Harrison's Perspectives ¬ The Winning Mindset ¬ The Winning Mindset
- The Kick-Ass Marketing Secret of the Most Successful Candidates and Attorneys
- How Any Attorney Can Get a $100+ Million Book of Business, Become a Partner in a Major Law Firm, or Start a Successful Business and Retire Whenever They Want
- The Top 10 Ways Working as an Attorney in a Law Firm Ages (and Kills You) Prematurely
- How to Understand Your Personality Type and What Practice Area, Type of Firm, or Practice Setting You Should be Working in
- How to Get a Job with a Major Law Firm if You Did Not Go to a Top Law School or Are Not Working at a Top Law Firm
- The Surprising Factor Law Firms Care About More Than Your Experience
- Why Partners, Counsel and Senior Associates Without Business Are Employable in Law Firms of All Sizes
- Why the Solution to Being Happy as a Law Firm Attorney Does Not Involve Making Any of the Changes You've Thought of Making
- How an Attorney's Ego Makes Them Unhappy Practicing Law and With their Lives
- Showing Up: The Difference Between Those Who Get Hired and Advance in Law Firms and Those Who Do Not
- How Important Are Intelligence, Work Ethic, Perseverance, and Social Intelligence to Succeeding in Large Law Firms?
- How Attorneys Can Get Jobs Rapidly In Interviews and Even After Being Rejected by Law Firms
- Don't Give Up! Why You Should Work with the Best Law Firm You Can as Long as You Can
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Placed at Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, PCMy recruiter seems great and I'm happy to be working with her. I enjoyed your interviewing-skills article, especially t....Read more >
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South Texas College of Law, Class Of 2019
Placed at Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg, LLPBCG is prompt and responsive and within less than a day of me talking to my legal placement professional, she had alread....Read more >
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