Q: Dear Legal Eagle,
What is the story with intellectual property law?
Signed . . .Future IP Attorney MORE
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''The Road to In-House Employment: Why Legal Authority Works''
Legal Authority probably helps more attorneys market themselves to in-house positions than any other organization in the United States. Every day of the week, numerous attorneys land in-house jobs using Legal Authority. MORE
Article Type: Eagle In House News
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''An Attorney Without a Job is Not the Typical Legal Authority Client: But This is One Success Story You are Likely to Remember''
Legal Authority's clients are typically in-house attorneys seeking jobs in large corporations and law firm attorneys moving into other law firms. In fact, the majority of attorneys we assist are currently making in excess of $100,000 a year and are coming from respected law firms. Also, we place many new law school graduates. We suspect that this is true because the smartest attorneys generally conduct their job search in the most effective way. Indeed, it is astonishing to us that so many attorneys out there do not take their job search more seriously when it is so fundamental to their lives. This month's success story is about a different type of attorney, who had to overcome several serious problems with his career history. MORE
Article Type: The Bird's Eye View of Success
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''How to Get a Permanent Position Following Graduation if You did not get Legal Experience During Law School''
Choosing not to work for a firm or clerk for a court during law school is not always the best career move. Most law students find that getting good summer jobs increases their chance of finding a position after graduation. Using Legal Authority, hundreds of law students get summer positions each year. Graduating without work experience will require an aggressive job search and careful marketing. MORE
Article Type: Eagle Law Firm News
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''Another corporate attorney in the Bay Area comes through with Legal Authority''
Mark*, a 2000 graduate of a top ten law school, had little more than a year of experience as a corporate attorney with a major Silicon Valley law firm. Mark's circumstance was particularly dire because he (1) was a corporate attorney, and (2) had failed the California Bar Exam not once-but twice. Mark's law firm had the same policy as others: If you failed the bar exam more than once you were out. MORE
Article Type: The Bird's Eye View of Success
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Q: Dear Legal Eagle,
What are the benefits of working in the government as opposed to a law firm? Signed . . .Not Ready for a Law Firm MORE
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Catherine Fobi ''A Real Legal Eagle''
What do data analysts do at Legal Authority?
Catherine, a graduate of Bates College, is a data analyst at Legal Authority. With the assistance of our data entry center, Catherine reviews and revises over 10 client files per week. Legal Authority clients are quite surprised at the amount of work required to perfect each customer file. In this Employee Profile, Legal Authority profiles its employee of the month, Catherine Fobi. MORE
Article Type: Featured Legal Authority Employee
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''When Law Firms Turn Mean''
One of the more interesting aspects of the current economic slowdown is the fact that many firms have become increasingly ''meaner'' to their associates. Not that all firms are mean, however, attorneys often need to be aware of the conditions within firms to survive. As this article will demonstrate, firms that are doing well economically are often not mean, and it is important for attorneys to seek out firms that consistently perform well economically. MORE
Article Type: Eagle Law Firm News
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