A good headhunter can help you make a wise lateral move. Here’s how.
Stewart Marks wasn’t unhappy with his job when a headhunter from New York City’s Howard-Sloan Legal Search called him in March 1999. But Marks went ahead and took the call. A fourth-year corporate associate at a Los Angeles–based firm, Marks had been thinking [...]

The law is different—very different—in Jakarta.
Practicing law in Jakarta is like trying to land a biplane on the deck of a fishing trawler in a monsoon at midnight. Your equipment is fragile and out-of-date, the target is moving, and visibility is zero. Oh, and the captain won’t radio you permission to land until you make [...]

Sorry no posts in a while.. “We’re Back”
When you spill the beans to your spouse, should you ‘fess up?
Q: A corporate associate mentions a merger she is working on to her husband. Her husband inadvertently refers to the deal over drinks with a friend. The friend has a material interest in the deal’s closing. [...]

Whenever I’m feeling down, I scan the message boards of Greedy Associates. Reading five minutes’ worth of whining from a bunch of rich, spoiled brats makes me feel better about my problems.
Consider this gripe from “Francine”: “$165,000 is just not as much as you think. Take out $70,000 for taxes. That’s $95,000. Then there’s a [...]

Plenty of lawyers talk about leaving a big, comfortable job to defend the weak and powerless. Tom Myers walks the walk. As general counsel to the Los Angeles–based AIDS Healthcare Foundation—the country’s largest grassroots provider of HIV- and AIDS-related health services—Myers fights to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and to protect the rights of the [...]

Don’t read this if you’re a week into law school and you constantly raise your hand; practically yell out answers; and feel certain you’re going to ace every test, make law review, and become the first female nameplate partner at some major New York firm. You don’t need my help. No, this is for those [...]

When I was a law student, we had heroes. Clarence Darrow was the attorney for the damned. Thurgood Marshall risked his life to bring about racial equality. Our fictional heroes were perfect, too. Perry Mason never lost. Atticus Finch acted solely on principle. Then, of course, there were the Supreme Court justices: black-robed icons who [...]

We figure you know the basics about how to conduct yourself in front of a jury. Hell, anyone who’s ever watched Matlock knows how it’s done. So we’ll skip the kid stuff and move straight to the tactics you haven’t heard of—or seen on TV. Here, then, ten tips from real-world lawyers, jury experts and [...]