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- The Top Reasons Why Money Is the Dumbest Thing Any Attorney Should Focus on When Joining a Law Firm
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- When You Should and Should Not Leave Your Law Firm to Get Ahead
- The Best Ways to Get a Reduced-Hour Position Inside of a Law Firm
- How Important Are Intelligence, Work Ethic, Perseverance, and Social Intelligence to Succeeding in Large Law Firms?
- Take This GIFT for Granted and Your Legal Career Will Be Dead
- The Only Two Ways to Be a Rich or Famous Attorney
- Why Do Attorneys in Large Law Firms Work So Hard and Bill So Many Hours?
- Bureaucrat Attorneys versus Producer Attorneys
- The 'Dark Side' of Going In-house
- Why Attorneys with 5+ Years of Law Firm Experience Are in Serious Trouble (and Seven Steps They Need to Take to Save Their Legal Careers)
- Why You Should Quit Practicing Law
- Choosing Between Corporate and Litigation Practice Areas: Which Is the Better Choice for Your Legal Career?
- How to Hire the Best Lateral Attorneys: 23 Types of Attorneys Prestigious Law Firms Avoid Hiring
- Why Do Some Legal Recruiters Lose Interest in Their Candidates?
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ARTICLES FOR EMPLOYERS
- Can Rethinking the “Billable Hour” Lead to More Law Firm Gender Equality?
- Why Law Firms Are Hiring More and More Staff Attorneys: Should You Work as a Staff Attorney?
- The Only Six Factors Prestigious Law Firms Care about When Hiring Lateral Attorneys
- How Legal Recruiters Manipulate You
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Law Firm Compensation Plans
- The Real Deal about Law Firm Telephone-Screening Interviews and How to Handle Difficult Questions about Your Past to Show Commitment to Your Phone Interviewer
- Is an LL.M. Degree Worth It?
- State of the Law Firm Hiring Market - Fall 2016
- What Yale Law School Teaches about How to Approach Your Legal Career That No Other Law School Does
- State of the Law Firm Hiring Market - Spring-Summer 2016
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FEATURED ARTICLES FOR LAW FIRM PARTNERS
- Three Simple Ways to Tell If You Should Work (or Continue to Work) in a Law Firm
- Top 10 Reasons Why Older Attorneys Have a More Difficult Time Getting Law Firm Jobs
- What Happens When You Work with a BCG Attorney Search Legal Placement Professional?
- The Business Plan Revisited
- 21 Reasons Why Being a Large Law Firm Partner Is More Difficult Than Being an Associate
- Why You Should Find Your “Tribe” and Not Just Focus on Money in Making Law Firm Job Decisions
- Why Most Attorneys Are Unhappy
- Why Most Attorneys Are Angry
- Two Things the Most Successful 5% of Attorneys Do That the Rest Do Not
- How to Easily Determine the Best Attorneys and Law Firms: The Five Prestige Levels of Attorneys and Law Firms
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