How to Conduct a Job Search When Relocating
In today's workforce, individuals are constantly switching employers for both personal and professional reasons. For example, what's one to do when an opportunity that matches so perfectly with his o...
Your Job Search Is All about the Numbers
Have you ever heard of Legal Authority?Think hard. You may have seen it somewhere in a magazine or on a website or on a billboard. Did you every wonder what Legal Authority is?...
Origins of an Altruistic Endeavor
Legal Authority was started some years ago by a law professor who saw how difficult it was for some of his brightest students to find legal positions. One student in particular had graduated at the to...
Job boards and advertisements: how helpful are they?
When you start thinking about a career move, you may choose to begin by looking on Internet job boards and in the classifieds-either those in the legal newspapers or those on the Internet (such as Law...
Customer Service Corner
Our goal at Legal Authority is for each client to get his or her dream job. We, as a team, often go ''above and beyond'' to do whatever we can do to achieve that goal! The role of Customer Service is ...
Common Resume and Cover Letter Pitfalls
As a resume counselor to attorneys from all types of practice areas and career levels, I am always surprised to see many of the same errors in my clients' original resumes and cover letters. The comp...
Legal Authority is the Most Effective Way to Get Your Next Attorney Position
Legal Authority is made up of attorneys, writers and researchers who bring a high degree of understanding, competence and a proven track record of achievement to your job search. Our team has attorne...
Why Legal Authority Works: Myth versus Reality
The most common means of obtaining a job was a letter or other ''self-initiated contact'' with the employer ...-National Association of Law Placement...
Your cover letter
Employers do read the cover letter, don't they? Well, yes, but briefly. Since employers only spend about a minute looking over all application materials and most of that time is spent on the resume, a...
Some Things You Probably Did Not Know About Legal Authority
Does this work?
Many attorneys who have used self-initiated targeted mailing originally tried the other ways to find a job that you may have. It did not work for them either. Beyond even compensating...
