You Are What You… Wear (Part II)9/5/2008 Think Globally, Act Locally.
This is probably the most important lesson I learned from observing the summers and attorneys at my firm and hearing anecdotes about the dress of my friends at different firms around the country. The...
(0 comments) You Are What You… Wear9/2/2008 This past May, I was pretty psyched. I had just completed my 1L year (closing my computer after my final exam—Property—is hands down the best thing that has ever happened to me), and in a few short days I was flying home to lovely, fast-paced,...
(0 comments) This Firm Had Better Sandwiches than That Firm8/26/2008 The great thing about hindsight is that it’s 20/20. The less-great thing about hindsight is that, by definition, it comes too late. But the really great thing about other people’s hindsight is that it can be just in the nick of time...
(0 comments) Big Law and Diversity Tall Tales8/12/2008 This past winter I had the pleasure of sitting in on a diversity recruitment lunch put on by a national law firm at the Stanford Law School. This firm is among the most elite and largest law firms in the United States, with international offices across...
(0 comments) Before the Law8/18/2008 Franz Kafka wrote a very short story entitled “Before the Law” which I recommend you take a minute to read . It’s as abstract as any story I can think of: there’s no physical description of the setting, no timeframe. There...
(0 comments) Target and our Pro Bono Culture7/30/2008 Let’s talk about Target. Did you know that Target Corporation gives 5% of its annual profits back to the community? Last year that amounted to over $156 million in grants to charitable groups.
But apparently donating money...
(0 comments) Pro Bono in Your Interview8/4/2008 Approaching pro bono in an on-campus interview with any firm can be a tricky affair. While law firm websites lead you to believe their pro bono programs flow like a mighty stream of justice, this isn’t necessarily the case. Strong pro bono...
(0 comments) Gender Gap Blawg5/6/2008 A lot of ink has been spilled over women’s march into the legal profession that began in earnest in the early 1970s. Since the baby boomerettes made their initial foray into testosterone-dominated law offices about forty years ago, the number...
(0 comments) Generation Gap3/3/2008 Last summer, the organization we run, Building a Better Legal Profession , began collecting data about large law firms. We understood that there was plenty of publicly available data about...
(0 comments) Building a Better Legal Profession2/14/2008 Law students think big firms are indistinguishable. Long hours, dull work, ungrateful partners, big paychecks. But real differences exist amongst these firms and, starting last year, students are finding out just how distinguishable they are.
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(0 comments) The Limbo Zone3/3/2008 It is conventional wisdom (or perhaps for some an unwelcome realization midway through first semester of the 1L year) that you don’t come to law school with the primary aim of instantaneous monetary enrichment. For those anxious to “make it big,...
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