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The Insider's Guide to Law Firms

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The information is this book is totally out of date and is approaching uselessness at this point. Try the Vault.com Guide to the Top Law Firms, or check out the Vault.com site, where all the law firms profiles are updated in real time.

I just graduated from HLS and I found this book to be pretty useful. Many of my classmates also used it. On balance, however, I'd say the Vault Reports guide was more useful. The Insider's Guide covers many firms, but the books sounds like it was written by law students -- a bit stilted and risk-adverse. The Vault Reports Guide was fresher and had deeper, edgier detail. In sum, I'd say both books are good efforts, but the Vault guide was my favorite.

A lot of the information in this book seems out of date. I thought the Vault Reports Guide to America's Top 50 Law Firms, from VaultReports, was more current and had more information on each firm. But the Insider's Guide is still worth reading.

This is the best review of the law firms for the prospective associate. In contrast to similar resources, its reviews do not merely parrot the happy-face PR from the firm's web page. There is a big difference between law firms that is difficult to ascertain from the firms' published materials or from a handful of half hour interviews -- every law student choosing between bigfirm jobs should read the Insider's Guide.

On the downside, the selection of firms which are reviewed is somewhat limited.