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- An Attorney's Guide to Achieving Harmony: Balancing Work and Personal Life in the Legal Profession
- Managing Lawyer Stress: Strategies for Well-being and Success in the Legal Profession
- What to Do if You Are Fired as an Attorney from a Law Firm (or Worried You Are Going to Lose Your Job)
- The Top 10 Ways Working as an Attorney in a Law Firm Ages (and Kills You) Prematurely
- The Work-Life (Legal) Balance: What Lawyers Truly Need to Know About It
- Another Lawyer Suicide: How the Psychology of Being a Big Firm Lawyer Can Tear You Down
- How an Attorney's Ego Makes Them Unhappy Practicing Law and With their Lives
- How an Attorney Can Get a Reduced-Hour Position Inside of a Law Firm
- The Seven Deadly Burdens of Being a Law Firm Attorney: Rejected, Criticized, Never Enough, Marginalized, Lied to, Insecure, and Cast Out
- How to Not Fail, Die or Go Crazy Practicing Law: How I've Seen Attorneys Find Enjoyment and Satisfaction in the Legal Profession
- Another Big Law Attorney I Know Just Died Young
- Lawyer Depression and Anxiety: Why Most Lawyers are Depressed and Anxious Due to Practicing Law
- What Can a Law Firm Attorney Do if they Are Sick and Tired of Working Long Hours?
- Taking Time Off from Practicing Law: How Will It Impact Your Future Marketability?
- Is Work-life Balance a Realistic Goal at “Biglaw” Firms?
- Work-life Balance & a Biglaw Job
- Associate Stuck Working with Difficult Partners
- The Role of Emotional and Social Intelligence in Your Career
- The Five Toughest Questions Attorneys Face When Considering Making a Later Move to a New Law Firm
- ''If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It'': Yogi-ism's for Tough Times
- To Snuggie TM... or Not To Snuggie TM: Finding Warmth and Humor in a Chaotic Legal Market
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- Lawyers See Benefit in Professional Coaching
- Meditation, Mediation, Marketing and Medication
- Striving for Professional Mediocrity
- Is Anyone Out There Happy?
- How to Know When You Should Stay in Your Law Firm Job or Move to a New Law firm Job
- The Power of Self-Awareness and Positive Thinking during Your Job Search
- How Golf Found Me
- How Important is it to Know Your 'Self' Before the Job Market Knows You?
- In Search of Work/Life Balance
- Is Lifestyle the New Black? A Recruiter Talks About the Concept of the Lifestyle Firm, and What It Means for the Next Wave of Associate Hirings
- How to Ensure Career Satisfaction and Happiness as an Attorney
- The HAPPENING: The Quiet Unsettling of U.S. Lawyers in the Face of a Tough Economy
- Weathering Uncertainty
- Finding Work/Life Balance
- Achieving Career Satisfaction: Make the Investment, But Choose Your Investments Carefully
- Battered Associate Syndrome
- Battered and Bewildered? Maybe It's Time to Rethink Priorities, Repair your Self-Esteem, or Even Look for a New Job
- 6 Things You Should Consider Before Making a Lateral Move to a New Law Firm
- The Dangers of Myopia—Do You Have a Clear View of Your Own Professional Value?
- First Things First: Build Your Legal Career from the Inside Out
- 5 Tips for Attorney Well-Being and Job Satisfaction: How to Achieve Bliss at the Legal Profession
- Flex Timings and Reduced Hours: Too Good to be True?
Attorney Career Advice ¬ Advice for Associates ¬ Moving Up or Moving On
- Partner-Level Transitions: What Law Firms Look for and How to Stand Out
- Breaking Away from BigLaw: Career Strategies in Tough Times
- Solo Practice Success: 13 Questions Every Aspiring Solo Attorney Should Ask
- Taking the Leap: A Comprehensive Guide for Attorneys Starting a Solo Practice
- Comprehensive Q&A: Navigating Career Transitions in the Legal Profession
- Navigating Career Transitions: When and Why Attorneys Should Consider Moving Between Law Firms
- Understanding Red Flags in Long-Term Employment Potential: Strategies to Address Frequent Job Changes and Career Pivots
- Unlocking the Path to Partnership: Strategic Career Advancement for Attorneys
- Navigating New Horizons: Mastering the Art of Lateral Moves in the Legal World
- From Associate to Partner: Essential Steps for Climbing the Law Firm Career Ladder
- Mastering Your Law Firm Exit: Essential Strategies for Attorneys on the Move
- What You Need to Know About Leaving Law Firms
- Why You Should Never Give Up Your Law Firm Job Search: Lessons in Law Firm Job Search from an Abandoned Bangkok Street Puppy, Two Attorney Crystal Meth Addicts and an Attorney Computer Repairman
- Why You Should (and Should Not) Open a Solo Law Practice
- Why You Might be Better Off Being an Average Attorney Than Trying to Be an Exceptional One
- What to Do if You Are Fired as an Attorney from a Law Firm (or Worried You Are Going to Lose Your Job)
- How Any Senior Attorney with No Business Can Get a Job in a Law Firm
- What to Do if You Are a Law Firm Partner Without Business
- How Can an Attorney or Law Student Find a Job in a Tight Legal Market?
- Can an Attorney Make Partner in a Law Firm or Move When Senior Without a Book of Business?
- 23 Types of Attorneys Prestigious Law Firms Avoid Hiring
- Why Attorneys Often Fail as Businesspeople and Entrepreneurs
- Don't Give Up! Why You Should Work with the Best Law Firm You Can as Long as You Can
- The 18 Most Important Decisions Law Students and Attorneys Make With Their Legal Careers: A Definitive Career Guide
- Why Relocating to a Different Market Is the Greatest (But Little Known) Way for a Law Firm Attorney to Get Ahead in the Legal Profession
- Law Schools That Send the Most Attorneys to United States Supreme Court Clerkships
- Why You Are Unhappy Practicing Law: You May Only be Happy When You Reach the Point of Giving Orders and Not Taking Them
- Why You Should NEVER Quit a Law Firm Job Without Another Lined Up: Once You Start Working in a Law Firm, If You Leave You Will Almost Certainly Not Be Able to Return
- Top 10 Reasons Why Older Attorneys Have a More Difficult Time Getting Law Firm Jobs: Why Law Firms Prefer Younger Attorneys With Less Experience
- Simplifying the Complications in Your Story
- Why You Should Find Your 'Tribe' and Not Just Focus on Money in Making Law Firm Job Decisions
- The Only Seven Reasons a Law Firm Will Ever Make You a Partner
- Judicial Clerkships: Not All Are Equal But Not All Need to Be
- Should You Start Your Own Law Firm? Top 10 Reasons to Start or Not Start Your Own Firm
- How to Handle a Big Law Layoff
- Why is Too Much Experience Held Against an Attorney When they are Looking for a New Job?
- How Can a Partner Make a Lateral Move Without a Book of Business?
- Should a Law Firm Associate Move from a Large Law Firm to a Smaller Law Firm to Increase Their Odds of Making Partner?
- How Likely Am I to Be Laid Off as a New Junior Associate in a Law Firm?
- As an Associate, Should I Worry about Getting Laid Off during a Merger?
- If I Make the Olympic Team, How Will My Law Firm React?
- Should You Start Your Own Law Practice After Losing Your Attorney Job at a Law Firm?
- The 7 Steps Attorneys with 5+ Years of Law Firm Experience Must Take to Save Their Legal Careers
- Going In-house? Why You May Be Saying Goodbye to Law Firms for Good
- These 8 Tips Will Make New Attorneys More Effective Communicators
- The Importance of Gathering Intelligence
- Senior Associates - How to Make Oneself More Marketable to Law Firms
- The Importance of a Great Business Plan
- How to Successfully Network in a Law Firm
- When Your Surroundings Dictate a Passive Search
- The Benefits to Living and Working in a Smaller Market
- Should I Look for Other Opportunities If My Firm Recently Laid Off Staff?
- What to Tell Your Recruiter after You’ve Been Laid Off
- Is it Pointless for Attorneys to Move Law Firms Because They Are All Basically the Same?
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Duke University School of Law, Class Of 2007
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University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Class Of 1998
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Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Class Of 2003
Placed at Ladas & Parry LLPI don't have experience working with any other search firms, but my legal placement professional was just really availab....Read more >
Nicholas Contento
University of Notre Dame, Class Of 2017
Placed at Baker Botts L.L.P.With respect to my legal placement professional specifically, I think she was very responsive, she was very proactive an....Read more >
Gregory Sergi
Duke University School of Law, Class Of 2007
Placed at Keller/Anderle LLPI felt that the individuals that I worked with were very responsive and worked hard to figure out and find a job that wa....Read more >
Cameron Williamson
Duke University School of Law, Class Of 2015
Placed at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.Some of my favorite things about working with BCG were that my recruiter was very responsive and encouraging.BCG made my....Read more >
Jutta Frankfurter
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Class Of 1998
Placed at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP[My] favorite thing [about BCG] is my legal placement professional. She's a really, really nice person, straight shooter....Read more >
Steven Phillips
North Carolina Central University School of Law, Class Of 1993
Placed at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLPIt really seemed like my legal placement professional and BCG had a plan and were willing to work the problem. I had con....Read more >
Douglas Gallagher
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Class Of 2003
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