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Jobs for Lawyers: Effective Techniques for Getting Hired in Today's Legal Marketplace

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I have read almost all of the legal employment advice books, and I find them almost all to be misleading. It seems that authors of this genre of books are either: (1) completely out of touch with how the legal marketplace actually works; or (2) understand how the legal marketplace works, but do not want to explain things clearly for fear that they will frustrate the hopes of readers.

This book is little different from the others. It starts out by offering a few "insights" into the legal marketplace today--i.e., large firms increasingly have both equity and non-equity partners, smaller firms have stepped up hiring, etc. The actual finding a job component of the book tells you nothing that you probably would not have thought of on your own--network with friends, former professors and graduates of your school, be aggressive but polite, etc., etc. You probably will have gotten this same advice elsewhere. There is nothing new in these pages.

I am waiting for the day when an author will state that landing a legal job nowadays generally requires either that: (a) you have good grades from a good school; or (b) you wear a yarmulka. Instead, authors refuse to tell it like it is and instead offer platefuls of bromides like the ones contained in this book.

This book provided fairly useful advice. Another book I found very useful in my legal job search was the "Vault Reports Guide to America's Top 50 Law Firms."