This 32-page booklet describes impediments to women's success and offers five important strategies for building a successful career. Quotes from women partners contribute additional insights.

This report provides an overview of findings from the second wave of data collection from a 10-year longitudinal study of lawyer careers. After the JD was designed to track the careers of a nationally representative cohort of lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000 over the first 10-12 years of the careers. The AJDII report seeks to illuminate the progression of lawyers' careers through roughly seven years in practice and specifically studies issues such as job mobility, career satisfaction, convergence in the career patterns of women and minorities with white males, and indications of continuing inequality by gender. Detailed charts and tables, as well as thoughtful analysis of the issues provide new insight into many management and career matters.

This report documents the initial findings from the first wave of a 10-year longitudinal study of lawyer careers. The report provides data on the Class of 2000 related to their work experiences, mobility, satisfaction and the dimensions of satisfaction, the types of work associates do, their compensation and other variables. Detailed charts and tables, as well as thoughtful analysis of the issues provide new insight into many management and career issues.

Effective mentoring is one of the most important contributions experienced lawyers can make to the future of their firm. This 32-page booklet is an ideal quick-read resource for busy lawyers. Offers a wide range of tips organized under subheadings – from tips for the first meeting to tips for setting the mentee's goals, promoting effective communication, facilitating learning, integrating the mentee into the firm, building the mentee's confidence, mentoring members of the minority groups, enriching the mentoring process and concluding the mentoring relationship.

Collection of inspiring short stories (2-3 pp) of people who have done fascinating things with a law degree. Some of the paths have led to more traditional lawyering roles, however, others have gone in unusual directions.

Includes knowledge excerpts from some of the biggest name lawyers on the secrets to choosing the best career path and having success over the long term on a professional and personal level. Items discussed include the right way to find the best firm for your interests, deciding which practice area to go into, interviewing tips, summer programs, studying for the bar, finding a mentor and achieving long term success as a lawyer.

For the busy law student or lawyer, here is a new self-assessment tool based on the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory. After a quick quiz to identify primary and secondary personality types, Zichy discusses the kinds of jobs (including some legal specialties) that best fit each personality – and the type of work environment each personality type needs to thrive. Concrete job search tips based on personality type are also included – and students who struggle with interviews may gain insights on how to adjust their communication style.

Presents an inspirational collection of letters from 44 experienced women lawyers of color. Addressed to the next generation, the letters outline various roadmaps for success in the legal profession as a woman lawyer of color. Organized by practice settings: large and midsize firms; solo and small firm practices; public service (including government, nonprofits, executive roles in government and nonprofits, the judiciary, and elected officials); in-house practices; and academia.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching series. Examines how well law schools meet the challenge of linking the interests of educators with the needs of lawyers and the members of the public the profession is pledge to serve – civil professionalism. The book is based on extensive field research at a wide variety of law schools in the US and Canada that involved observations and interviews with faculty, students and administrators. The book presents a detailed picture of how law school goes about its great work of transforming students into professionals and probes the gaps and the unintended consequences of key aspects of the law school experience. Offers an important and timely set of recommendations for improving the professional education of lawyers that will help to transform how lawyers are being prepared, practically and ethically, to play a vital and beneficial role, both professionally and in their communities.

Based on the results of focus groups held nationwide as well as additional research, this guide offers information about institutional and individual approaches that can help women lawyers progress into positions of power and leadership at law firms and corporations. The "tried and true" tips are specific and solid suggestions based on successful strategies of senior women lawyers, managing partners, general counsel and rainmakers. Particularly helpful to women who are just starting their careers (or aspiring to start their careers) in mid-sized or large law firms.

This Nutshell Series book addresses fundamental lawyering skills such as research, analysis, writing, oral communication, managing assignments, supervising, working with support staff, and putting feedback to good use. In addition, it emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence, effective interpersonal relationships, professionalism, conflict and stress management, and the awareness of generational differences in the workplace. Also, offers practical advice for building a successful career (such as maximizing the law school experience, creating a career plan, assessing a job offer, negotiating salaries, money management, and work-life balance). The numerous real-life situations described in the book keep its text engaging and down to earth.

Lists 21 Rules of Law Office Life that will help make the difference to your success in the law: surviving your first years as an attorney and making partner.

This is two books in one. Part I focuses on the needs of legal employers, providing solutions for the changes facing the legal industry. These include the threat to the billable hour, the rise of new models of practice, the morphing of large law firms, the development of talent management strategies, and the creation of work/life and women-friendly employment settings. Part II is directed to lawyers and law students and provides a roadmap for how to navigate today's changing legal environment.

Subtitled "Spiritual and Practical Keys to Navigating (and Surviving!) Job Change," this book's focus is on the inner life of the job seeker who is in search of a job where his or her interests, skills, and passions are in line with the "soul of the job." Lessons are grouped in four sections: contemplating a career change; overcoming obstacles; planning for the change; and actually doing the things necessary to conduct an effective search.

Examines the factors contributing to career dissatisfaction for lawyers and offers practical suggestions on how individual lawyers and law offices can remove or minimize those factors.

Take control of your career…and achieve the security and happiness you've always wanted. Includes specific tips, steps and lessons you can start using today. Discover the most practical and effective ways to "worry less" about anything at work. Discover the most effective ways to increase and compound your income at work.

This guide is divided into short, specific sections that touch on what a law student or lawyer needs to do before a job hunt, while looking for a job, during an interview, once an offer has been received, and all of the steps in between. It addresses both private and public sector settings; what employers really want; identifies hidden skill sets and matches them with opportunities; and how to negotiate the terms of employment.

Professionalism is the necessary ingredient beyond legal skills and experience. You can learn vital skills to make the most of law school, build and sustain a professional network, and succeed in your job search. Transition from law school to law practice with ease,, make the most of business functions, and impress your employer. Filled with quotes from experts in the field, this book will guide you through professional expectations and help you maximize your legal career.

The scope of this small handbook goes beyond etiquette rules to address the type of behavior that builds solid business relationships. The book begins with interview etiquette, including tips on everything from appropriate dress and dinner behavior to handling travel reimbursement issues with professionalism. Chapters include: interview etiquette; working with those more senior; working with peers; working with those more junior; working with staff; clients and client development; opposing counsel; outside advisors; after hours office events; after hours out on your own; the etiquette of changing jobs; the golden rules of etiquette. A quick-read and accessible format.

Offers a simple, five-step career planning process enabling lawyers to manage their professional lives and enhance their personal lives. Whether you are looking to advance in a current position or find a new job, Brady provides clear, concise guidelines for conducting a job search and developing a legal career.

Ferrazzi, who is a secret, master networker, will guide you on how to build a lifelong community of colleagues, contacts, friends and mentors.

Generation Y has entered the legal profession. Sometimes referred to as Millennials, this generation is often considered high-maintenance, but Generation Y also has the potential to become the most high-performing workforce ever. This book provides step-by-step best practices for getting Gen Yers on board and up to speed – giving them the context they lack, teaching them how to manage themselves and how to be managed, and turning the very best into new leaders.

SUNY Buffalo Law School's CSO has joined the Blogosphere. It is not meant to substitute for our newsletter, nor for our webpage, but to be just one more attractive, new way to get information out and to create goodwill. We will allow moderated comments in response to the posts.

In this title, the author takes you behind the scenes of a large firm, to show you what it is really like to be a junior associate. After graduating from law school, William Keates took a job at a blue-chip New York law firm and started keeping a diary where he wrote down his day-to-day life at the firm. This book excerpts his diary from his first day at the firm to the day he quit. It also intersperses diary entries with useful information about what new lawyers at the country's largest firms do on a daily basis.

"What have I really learned in college?"

"How capable am I?"

"How will I handle new financial responsibilities from loans to health insurance?"

"What if I hate the job I choose?"

"What if I have to return home and live with my parents?"

If these questions sound familiar, it's because they are some of the most commonly voiced concerns of college students as they approach graduation. Drawing on the concepts developed in her successful "Reality 101" seminar at Roger Williams University, Fran Katzanek offers a wealth of practical advice to help address these and other issues facing college seniors and recent graduates.

Plus, frank and lively quotes from graduates offer a "from-the-trenches" perspective, as they reveal how they dealt with the post-college obstacles that took them by surprise. A rare blend of wisdom and experience, Reality 101 is the perfect companion for students facing the next great adventure -- life after college.

Features interviews with successful practitioners who left the law for greater personal and financial rewards. Appendices topics: Internet career resources; career counseling, testing, and online assessment tools; professional career assistance (legal search firms); legal organizations.

Secrets to Success provides detailed guidance on how to become personally, professionally and financially successful, without sacrificing who you are and what you care about. Considered required reading for any young or first generation professional in the field of law, medicine, education, business, government, non-profit, engineering, science, technology, media or mass communications, art or design, entertainment, or any of the life, physical, or social sciences. You’ll receive clear and candid information to obtain the success you want, and are given the resources needed to get it. Stop asking yourself, “what if it doesn’t work?” And begin considering, what if it does? In about the same time it takes to watch a movie, you’ll learn principles rarely taught to new and first generation professionals; including how to avoid losing up to $80,000 per year by graduating on time from college or a graduate program, with minimal student-loan debt. You’ll discover how to find a mentor and increase your income by up to $22,000 by doing so. And explore how to find the job of your dreams, keep it for a lifetime - if you want, and effortlessly create wealth now and for future generations. You’ll uncover all of this and more while learning how to stay healthy, happy and stress-free during the entire process.

This new, updated version examines the psychological traps that lead to poor decision making and then offer an array of assessment tools and techniques. Readers who work their way through the exercises provided will gain information that will help them to make more informed career choices – whether they are in the midst of deciding whether to go to law school or of deciding whether to pursue a legal career or an alternative career.

Addressing the distinctive communication skills expected of attorneys—and based on three decades of experience coaching lawyers—this manual of practical, useful solutions integrates cutting-edge discoveries in human factors, linguistics, neuroscience, gesture studies, and sports psychology. These techniques will transform any attorney into a more confident speaker, whether addressing colleagues in a conference room, counseling clients in a boardroom, or presenting a CLE in a ballroom. Including tips on bringing the presentation off of one's notes and using direct eye contact, the book answers such common questions as: How do I channel nervous energy into dynamic delivery? What is a reliable way to remember what I want to say? How do I stop saying "um" and think in silence instead? and Why is gesturing so important? Topics are divided into chapters on the body, the brain, and the voice, with an extra section specifically dedicated to practice.

This new career management book for lawyers at all stages of their careers is by one of America's leading career coaches. Filled with scores of illuminating exercises, this book offers well written, consistently practical advice. For young lawyers, provides a template for envisioning professional goals and designing a career development plan. For experienced lawyers, offers help with assessing how values and passions might have changed over the years, and what to do if they have. This book may be particularly beneficial for lawyers who feel unhappy or stuck in their careers. For them, the many exercises can help to identify sources of dissatisfaction as they work to gradually get to a place where their work is in synch with who they really are – whether that means a job change or a change in focus or work/life balance within a current career path. The advice included in this book and its many self-assessment tools can help any lawyer develop and take responsibility for his or her own career management plan.

This book gives readers the straight scoop on the most effective communication and behavior styles for today's business world – whether during an interview or to make a great impression with clients and colleagues. Packed with quizzes, checklists, and clear examples.

This book examines the causes of dissatisfaction among lawyers, and then charts possible paths to happier and more fulfilling careers in law.

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work, Second Edition is about how the law fits inside you, not how you fit inside the law. Making space for creativity and passion within your current workplace and at home can yield enormous emotional rewards. In the end, this book will support you whether you stay in the law, shift your law practice, or move on to other work. This book is the tool you need to make healthy decisions and welcome the passion back into your life!

This edition has been updated to address students seeking both career satisfaction and a healthy life balance in the profession. This Guide has been reorganized into four major sections: Planning for Legal Career (after law school what comes next?); Career Assessment (assessing yourself and your prospects, identifying skills and values, evaluating the market, establishing priorities); The Job Search (the hiring process, preparing a resume, researching employers, job hunting and networking); and the Marketplace for Legal Services (chapters on various types of jobs and on the future of law practice).

This book is a collaboration of many people's conversations about dining problems and situations. It is a short, handy guide of dos and don'ts to help you avoid common blunders involving fish bones, tea bags, toothpicks, and more. What is the proper way to eat lobster? Just follow the step-by-step illustrations. From decoding place settings to tipping stewards on a yacht, this little book will ensure that in any situation you need never be etiquette challenged.

This book is designed to help you harness your potential for business development and empower your legal career from law school through partnership. It provides techniques for defining your personal brand, leveraging your creativity and maximizing your success. Rainmakers, PR experts, elected officials, marketing masters, in-house counsel, business executives, career advisors, associates, law students, and others who have walked in your shoes offer perspective on issues ranging from networking, mentoring and blogging to hosting your own television show, starting a charity, and getting yourself published. Each chapter addresses genuine strategies for connecting with people and establishing meaningful professional relationships.

An introduction to the radical idea that our lives are worth organizing, planning, and managing.

A combination training manual and classroom curriculum guide aids individuals in occupational decision-making, job-hunting, and the analysis of education, skills and values.

This book offers in-depth advice on how women can make the most of their personal strengths, build critical alliances and overcome the obstacles in the way of achieving leadership goals. Also a tremendous reference for law firm administrators, providing insights into the nature of law firm leadership, factors affecting women, and the types of strategies most likely to open the door to law firm leadership for women.

Shares real-life experiences, advice, and wisdom from women lawyers. Law students and lawyers will learn through these pages how some notable and successful women have taken "time out" from their careers to raise children, moved from one city to another, or tried an alternative career track; how to decide whether part-time work is a viable option; what women lawyers do every day to juggle their careers and personal lives; and how a woman lawyer's life is a journey with shifting and manifold rewards.

Addresses the realities of law firm practice, especially in large firms, and gives pre-law students, law students, and new attorneys a realistic view of the opportunities and challenges most often encountered by women lawyers. Full of helpful advice from attorneys, judges, law school career counselors and law firm managing partners with wide and varied experiences, this will be an invaluable resource to any woman planning a career in the law.

This updated and expanded edition addresses all phases of changing jobs, from self-assessment and career planning through working from home and telecommuting.

A unique, inspirational collection of letters from 44 experienced women attorneys of color to the next generation outlining various roadmaps for success in the legal profession as a minority woman attorney. Recognizing that women attorneys of color face many obstacles to advancement in the legal profession, the Multicultural Women Attorneys Network - a joint project of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession - published in 2000 Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from Multicultural Women Attorneys Who've Been There and Done That. These letters described their experiences, feelings, and concerns with respect to inspiration, career path, and "the big picture."

After leading readers through a step-by-step process for identifying their personality type (based on Myers-Briggs), the authors explain the key ingredients that must be present in the work of each personality type for that work to be genuinely fulfilling. While not specifically law-related, this career classic can help students and lawyers considering a career transition evaluate the factors that are most important to their career satisfaction. Real-life case studies of persons with each personality type are featured.

What is expected of the new associate when s/he enters the law firm setting.

Chapters describe some traditional and alternative practice areas. Time covers entry to law school to retirement.

Includes practical and candid advice on finding the right legal job; writing effective resumes and cover letters; succeeding in your on-campus and second interviews; making the most of your summer associate position, surviving and thriving in your new law firm job; negotiating for alternative work arrangements; and evaluating boutique firms and in-house counsel positions. Also an index of several law firms and corporate law offices.

OPIA publishes a series of guides that offer advice on all aspects of the career planning process, from the beginning to think about your options through the interview and negotiating process and even how to make the most of your experience in the job. They also offer a series of guides on specialty areas within public interest law, ranging from civil rights and civil liberties law to work in private public interest firms. All their specialty career guides (PDF) are free and available for printing to the public.

This book presents vignettes of lawyers grappling with various issues at different stages of their careers – from achieving work/life balance to deciding whether to change jobs to other shifts in career goals. Each vignette is followed by a discussion of how the issues might be resolved through a three-step process: clarity (deciding what you want to be different); choice (further evaluating where you are and how things might change and choosing an approach); and action. For many, the worksheets in the appendices that lead readers through their own assessment of these three steps will be the most valuable part of this book.

Explains the features of effective communication that are the foundation of a successful practice at all stages of a career – how to build healthy, long-term relationships that will advance one's career; how to create food first impressions; how to understand others and meet their expectations; how to prioritize responsibilities; and how to employ an understanding of others to meet one's own goals. The authors address essential skills that will not only help beginning associates avoid common pitfalls but also help mid-level and senior associates perfect their skills in communicating with colleagues and clients. There's even a chapter on mistakes lateral associates often make.

This new edition includes updates throughout and also comes with a CD containing the exercises in the book. The book's sections focus on identifying life-time patterns of behavior, evaluating current career status, and analyzing "how the law fits inside you, not how you fit inside the law." Written for those who wish to stay in the legal profession as well as those looking for a change. This book points out the signs of burnout and offers solutions for prevention and cure. An important change to this edition is that the author tells people that, "before initiating change, it's important to understand the journey they are being invited to take, and the sense of freedom that change can bring."

Profiles of attorneys who have made a career change to traditional business, food business, the arts, non-traditional business, law-related occupations. Includes a career planning inventory.

A-Z guide on the many aspects of stress and stress management. Offers practical suggestions on time management, balancing work and family, and creating alternative work arrangements.

This guide addresses when and how to choose a nonlegal career; the specialized skills legal training provides; and how to plan and conduct a search for a nonlegal job. The new 5th edition has been updated throughout, and chapters on specific career paths have been expanded to include a new chapter on careers in information and technology, more on careers in publishing and media, and more on options in professional services. Good for both law students and recent grads who want to explore options beyond the practice of law.

A comprehensive resource on the wide array of legal career options. Includes descriptions of 30 major practice areas and incorporates interviews with several attorneys practicing in each area -- 130 attorneys in all, from solo practitioners to attorneys in large firms and government agencies. Two UB Law alums are profiled: Richard Greenberg (appellate) and Alberto Benitez (immigration).

Although this book is geared for individuals thinking about going to law school, it also has these helpful sections for current law school students: tips on finding a good summer job, legal internships, research assistantships, foreign law student programs; tips on finding a good law job after graduation, the MBE and MPRE, passing the bar exam, and life after law school.

An irreverent look at law school and career choices for prelaw, law students, and advanced paralegals--and the people who once loved them.

This handbook offers 600+ pages of career advice. The book begins with 10 chapters addressing "Who Am I?" and continues with 19 chapters on job searching for both private sector and public service jobs, 17 chapters on success on the job, and three closing chapters on broader topics of success in life. Extensive examples and checklists (from self-assessment exercises to sample resumes) are provided, as well as extensive resource lists.

Stories of lawyers and law students offering their opinions on just about everything connected with the profession.

Learn proven techniques for empowering your legal career from law school through partnership. Build your personal brand, leverage your creativity and maximize your business development potential by hosting your own television show, starting a charity, getting yourself published and using many other genuine strategies for connecting with people and establishing meaningful professional relationships.

An introduction to life/work /planning.

Provides well-honed tools and exercises flexibly designed to be used individually or by training professionals. In a time of tight budgets, the Manual can help PD professionals bring more training in-house.

A career encyclopedia for lawyers in transition and law students breaking into the profession. Includes internet job resources just for lawyers, and a unique job grid system to define one's ideal career and work environment.

Classic guide to how to job hunt most effectively by using informational interviews, contacts and what are by now a host of other well known techniques. Bolles wrote it first, however, and his book remains an essential catalog of kinds of assistance available to job seekers, hiring process, interviewing and other information for career changers, the unemployed, women returning to work, and current students.

JobHuntersBible.com
This site is designed as a supplement to the book, the 2008 edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. It will be particularly helpful if used along with the book.

Intended for any lawyer who wants to learn how to make the right moves for a successful legal career. Author Valerie Fontaine speaks from her inside track as a legal search consultant as she presents specific strategies for lawyers at all stages of their careers to increase their marketability in order to land their ideal jobs or to position themselves for success within their current organization.