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100 Days to Your Next Job for Law Students and New JDs lays down a proven job search strategy to transform job seekers into new employees within just 100 days. The book's progressive week-by-week format provides a unique and flexible plan that eliminates the uncertainty and anxiety from one of life's biggest stressors - landing that next job.

A people-skills book for new lawyers, law students, paralegals, and pre-law students. Identifies skills lawyers need; addresses getting practical lawyering skills and help you need--on the job and in law school. Chapters on emotional intelligence, diversity, meetings, time management, managing writing and research assignments, meeting with clients, working with your supervisor, supervising others. How to get feedback, cope with stress and conflict, seek balance, master public speaking and oral communication. Addresses the first day, shyness, meals, dress, cultural differences, networking, judgment, values, ethics, e-mail, and e-professionalism, building a career plan, career office resources, deciding if a job is right for you, negotiating salary, law firm economics, managing money. Advice from employers, insights from students. Excellent advice for new professionals in any field.

Choosing a legal career that fits a student's personality, skillset, and aspirations is the most important and difficult decision a law student faces, yet only a small number of law schools incorporate career-planning into their curriculums. Law Jobs: The Complete Guide seeks to fill the gap. Written by three award-winning professors, Law Jobs is a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide to every type of legal career. Packed with authoritative research and featuring comments from more than 150 lawyers who do the jobs, Law Jobs offers in-depth exploration of each career option, including general background, pros and cons, day in the life descriptions, job availability, compensation, prospects for advancement, diversity, and how students can best position themselves for opportunities in the field. Covered jobs include:Large and Medium-Sized Law FirmsSmall Firms and Solo PractitionersIn-House and Other Corporate CounselGovernment Agency LawyersNon-Governmental Public Interest LawProsecutors and Public DefendersPrivate Criminal DefenseJD Advantage JobsContract (Freelance) LawyeringJudges, Mediators, and ArbitratorsJudicial Law ClerksLegal Academic JobsOther chapters address lawyer happiness, the rapidly changing face of the legal profession due to technology and other forces, the division between litigation and transactional law, and the top-50 legal specialty areas.Together, the authors have received more than thirty awards for teaching and research, and have written extensively about law students and lawyers in books such as 1L of a Ride (McClurg), A Lawyer Writes (Coughlin), and The Happy Lawyer (Levit).

Legal skills are only one-third of what you need to succeed in law -- Using law school opportunities to help you succeed -- Addressing the debt dilemma -- Other gold mines for developing necessary skills -- Making networking a part of your life -- Mind your manners: a primer on business etiquette -- Traps for the uninitiated: technology pitfalls -- Putting it all together: professionalism in the job search -- Putting it all together: legal interview savvy -- On the clock: your first summer internship or summer associate position -- Putting it all together: post-law school: your first legal job -- Putting it all together: pro bono and community service -- Putting it all together: in pursuit of happiness and well-being.

This book highlights proven techniques for enhancing your networking, marketing, and business development potential to empower your legal career from law school through partnership. The second edition is updated with over 70 pages of new content and features tips from Lawcountability.

"This book shares everything you need to know without exhausting your patience with unnecessary detail. From finding opportunities, to your online and offline search, to your cover letter, your resume, interview questions, networking, and offer negotiation, this book covers underlying principles that will accelerate your job search."