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by Kaitlin Edleman|July 22, 2014
It's the final countdown-the bar exam is one week away. Despite
reassurances from your mom that you're "definitely going to pass,"
the truth is…you might not. And.That's.Okay. Your friends won't
judge you, and no one will think less of you. Anyone who has had
the unfortunate pleasure to sit for a bar exam knows that the line
between passing and failing is as thin as a page in your Barbri
review book. The bar exam is hard, people are supposed to fail.
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by Vault Careers|July 21, 2014
There's no doubt about it-law school grads today are feeling the
student loan squeeze. A recent New America study showed that the
average law student leaves school with more than $140,000 in loans,
the second highest debt burden behind medical degrees. That's
up 63% from just 10 years ago, and translates to a typical monthly
payment of $1,611 (at a 10-year term and 6.8% interest rate).
Not an easy load to bear for a decade or sometimes more. Want
to be done with your loans sooner?
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by Vault Careers|July 17, 2014
If you were interviewing someone who couldn't make eye contact,
would you give them the job? Probably not. I got the same answer
from a colleague who works in Human Resources, who's had the power
to hire (or to say thanks but no thanks) to many hundreds of
applicants. Although poor eye contact might just be due to nerves
or shyness - and completely understandable in an interview
situation-it's something you need to tackle if you think it may be
holding you back.
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by Derek Loosvelt|July 15, 2014
The East Coast-West Coast rivalry continues.If you're looking
for work in the so-called STEM sector and judge jobs by their
salaries, Bloomberg has put together several nice charts that show
you where tech compensation has grown fastest since 2008. But if
you're not a visual person, here's what you need to know when it
comes to cash: Seattle > San Francisco > Washington, D.C.
> New York.
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by Nicole Weber|July 15, 2014
Today, Vault released its Law Firm Diversity Rankings for 2015 with
a brand new No. 1 firm for Best Overall Diversity and new firms
landing atop each individual diversity category. A firm's
commitment to diversity directly impacts employee satisfaction, but
also the bottom line.
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by Kaitlin Edleman|July 15, 2014
Well, we're here. The bar exam classes have ended, and you now have
two weeks to insert the laws of an entire state into your tired,
tired brain. Here's a sampling of questions you may be asking
yourself: "Where did the summer go?" "Why did I go to law school?"
"Why is everything on this page highlighted?!?!" "Am I going to
barf on exam day?" The answers are really quite
simple: "You've been inside studying." "You have no one to blame
but yourself.
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by Phil Stott|July 10, 2014
A cautionary tale out of Washington for those of you who can't wait
to get your hands on some legal marijuana: one of the first people
ever to legally buy pot in the Evergreen State has been fired by
his employer, after being spotted on the news purchasing his bud.
Mike Boyer, a 30-year old security guard and committed pursuer of
altered states of mind, made history when he became the first legal
buyer of pot in his hometown of Spokane, Wash.
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by Nicole Weber|July 10, 2014
When it comes to finding a career in the legal industry, one of the
most important decisions prospective lawyers can make is choosing
the right summer associate program. In our annual associate survey,
in which nearly 17,000 law firm associates participated, we asked
first- through third-year associates who had summered at their
current firms to rate the program both in terms of how well it
prepared them for full-time practice and how much fun they had.
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by Derek Loosvelt|July 08, 2014
You've done your research on the firm you're applying to. You know
your resume up and down. You're prepared to pepper your interviewer
with your strengths, your weaknesses, an example of a time you led
a team, an example of a time you had to overcome an obstacle, a
detailed description of a DCF model, your view on the current state
of the stock market, and your take on the Fed's current interest
rate policy.
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by Nicole Weber|July 08, 2014
While prestige is certainly an important factor in the law firm
job-seeking process, there are many other aspects of firm life to
consider as well. In Vault's annual Law Firm Associate Survey
nearly 17,000 associates rated and commented on various areas of
their work life including overall satisfaction, compensation,
career outlook and more. Their answers generated Vault's Quality of
Life Rankings and our annual list of Best Law Firms to Work For.
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