| ‘You’re History.’ Now What? | What do you do if you are one of those laid-off or fired lawyers?
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| Alumni 101: It’s all about who knows you (not who you know) | Students are often confused about how to approach and best utilize their alumni network. If done right, working with alumni in your job search can open doors in a way unlike any other. Here's how you “do it right.”
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| Does Looking Old Hurt the Job Search? How One Makeover Worked | A 49-year-old entertainment broadcaster and film reviewer couldn’t help but think she was being rejected for jobs because she was looking old, at least on paper.
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| How to Get Experience When You Can't Get Hired | You have just passed the bar exam. All you need now is your first job, but you have no job offers. What do you do now? How do you get experience? Do what many other attorneys have done: work for free. Here are a few suggestions to get you started.
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 In-Office Interviews: How to Stand Out and Fit in | Employers hold interviews at their offices to assess candidates’ qualifications and abilities to assimilate into the organization’s culture. Both factors are important in hiring decisions. Attending to the details before, during, and after an office visit can give you the edge you’ll need to secure an offer.
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| Lawyers Between Jobs: Staying Marketable, Staying Connected, and Staying Visible | More than ten thousand lawyers and legal professionals were laid off in the past year; thousands of small firms and sole practitioners have seen a dramatic slowing of business; thousands of new law school graduates are still looking for work. What can lawyers who are in between jobs do to increase their chances of finding work? What can lawyers who are out of work do to stay in touch with colleagues and stay on top of developments in the law? How can lawyers who still have a job, but who fear an impending layoff or who are seeking a new situation, best put themselves into the marketplace?
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| Legal Career Paths: Finding the Right Job In a Difficult Economy | Finding the right job, and tending to your career path, is important yet difficult even in the best of economic times. Doing so in a recession can seem nearly impossible. Listen to noted author and lawyer Ursula Furi-Perry as she shares guidance on such issues as:
what factors should you consider before changing jobs?
what are the main factors you should consider, in order to make sure your prospective employer is actually a good fit?
how do you create a career plan?
what interesting or unique legal jobs are out there today?
what should recent grads do to find a job?
what should the recently laid-off do to find a job?
and what should those worried about future layoffs be doing?
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| Managing Your Career in Turbulent Times | Because of the difficult economic times we currently face, and the layoffs that have already occurred in the legal market, attorneys are understandably concerned about job security, and what to do if they are victims of downsizing.
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| Navigating Turbulent Times: How to Keep your Career and Business Development Activities on Track in Today's Troubled Economic Climate | Michael Melcher, author of the best-selling ABA book The Creative Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Authentic Professional Satisfaction, and nationally-known career counselor provides practical advice on how to proactively turn job insecurity into a time of planning and rejuvenation for your career. Learn about perspectives on what the recession means for you and the legal profession, tactical tips to achieve job security, directions for developing new business when clients are cutting back, approaches to avoid common mistakes when you’re out of work, and strategies to help you stand out to potential employers in a competitive job market.
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| New Edition of Legal Career Guide Offers Crucial Job-Hunting Advice for Young Lawyers | Many in the legal profession are worried about job security, but it's especially daunting for law students and recent graduates. In their new book, authors Gary Munneke and Ellen Wayne offer advice to help land a job despite the economic pinch.
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| Resolve to Manage Your Job Search | Learn how to effectively manage all aspects of your job search, from economic through emotional, and wind up on the other side in a better place.
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| Sample Interview Questions | When interviewing an attorney candidate, especially one who is inexperienced, law firms might want to describe scenarios that are intended to reveal how a candidate would deal with a difficult or awkward situation.
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| SEC Lawyer Talks Internships | A young corporate finance lawyer talks about his work at the Securities and Exchange Commission and how student internships can lay the groundwork for professional success.
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| Tips for Changing Jobs in the Current Market | Navigating the legal employment market is tougher than ever. Here are some tip to help ease the anxiety of jobseekers.
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| Turning a 2L Summer Associate Job into a Golden Full-Time One | In today's economy, your performance in your summer internship is more important than ever. If you want a full time position, read this timely article for critical tips about how to land a coveted job.
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| Understanding the Job Search Process | It is important to find a job that energizes you, involves skills that come naturally to you, and is situated in a setting you find compatible.
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| A Lawyer's Guide to Networking | This hands-on workbook is an invaluable tool for lawyers at all stages of their professional life, from law students to high-level professionals transitioning careers.
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| Ask the Career Counselors. . . Answers for Lawyers on Their Lives and Life's Work | Ask the Career Counselors is the third work in the trilogy on job search matters and mechanics.
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| Etiquette: Impeccable Manners Offer a Competitive Edge (Podcast) | Learn about the rules of etiquette as they apply to layoffs, networking, job searching, and interviewing in this free podcast.
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| Fifty Unique Legal Paths:How to Find the Right Job | One of the best-kept secrets about the law degree is its versatility. Few degrees can match the 600 career tracks that can be followed upon its receipt. A law degree can provide diverse career choices and many legal paths that still allow you to impact the lives of countless people through your work.
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| How to Use Social Media in Job Searches | Learn how to define goals, make efficient use of your time online, develop networking strategies, and brand yourself. Also, learn how potential employers use social media in their candidate searches.
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| Lawyers Between Jobs: Staying Marketable, Staying Connected, and Staying Visible (Podcast) | This free webcast addresses networking, job seeking, and self-marketing for lawyers.
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| Legal Career Paths: Finding the Right Job In a Difficult Economy (Podcast) | This free podcast offers guidance on factors that should be considered before changing jobs, how to create a career plan, what recent grads and those recently laid-off should do to find a job, and much more.
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| Navigating Turbulent Times: How to Keep your Career and Business Development Activities on Track in Today's Troubled Economic Climate (Podcast) | Listen to this free podcast for practical advice on how to proactively turn job insecurity into a time of planning and rejuvenation for your career
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| Objection Overruled: Overcoming Obstacles in the Lawyer Job Search | This handbook covers common barriers to the successful lawyer job search, and provides practical, engaging advice about overcoming the stopping blocks.
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| The Legal Career Guide, Fifth Edition | This is one of the ABA's bestselling career guide books that has been updated to address the unique needs of today's law students seeking both career satisfaction and a healthy life balance in the profession.
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| ABA Career Productivity Series | Join us for one or more of three teleconferences, complimentary to ABA members (limited space is available), for insight on how to overcome career challenges during this volatile time. The programs in the series focus on how to identify job opportunities, utilize social media, and develop strategies for succeeding as a solo practitioner.
| | ABA Job Board | Search for jobs, upload your resume, post a job, and more. This tool is for both job seekers and employers.
| | Career Counsel | Podcasts, legal news, mentoring opportunities, articles and about finding jobs and other resources enhancing careers
| | Center for Pro Bono | Includes news, publications, advice, projects and opportunities for lawyers interested in pro-bono work
| | Deferred Associates Judicial Clerkship Program | Online public service job database and “virtual career center.”
| | Disability Discussion Docket (3D) | Networking and job development opportunities for lawyers/law students with disabilities and lawyers who practice disability law, in addition to job announcements and postings in the field of disability rights and disability law.
| | FJE Project Fellows Program | Provides meaningful volunteer experience for recent law school graduates who may be unemployed, underemployed or deferred and who would like to engage in substantive law-related activities.
| | LegallyMinded | Online Networking for Legal Professionals
| | LPM - Young Lawyer Resource Center | Articles, books, teleconferences for lawyers just starting their careers
| | Other Legal Job Websites and Resources | Links to legal employment websites to help you in your job search.
| | Pro Bono and Public Service - During the Recession | Resources for lawyers who were laid off or had their start date deferred, as well as pro bono, legal services or public interest organizations that have opportunities for those lawyers during the economic downturn.
| | Resume Tech Tips | Resume tech tips from Catherine Sanders Reach, Director of the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center.
| | SOLOSez | Web resource for all solo attorneys, including the SoloSez email discussion list
| | What to Do Next?: “Managing a Legal Career Transition in Tough Times” - Podcast | Free ALI-ABA and NALP-produced podcast featuring advice for lawyers on how to handle a career transition in today’s economy.
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