The Legal Job Interview [Paperback]

Clifford R. Ennico (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1994

The all time best-selling guide to interviewing for a job as a lawyer, paralegal or other member of the legal profession. Chapters contain "real world" advice on finding job opportunities, preparing for the interview, and making the right impression every time you interview. Offers suggested answers to the most common legal interview questions, and advice for succeeding on the job once you are hired.

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About the Author

Cliff Ennico graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College, and received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Vanderbilt University - School of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.

During the 1980s, he worked on Wall Street, where he specialized in corporate finance, venture capital, and securities law. After a brief stint as in-house counsel for General Electric Capital Corp., he worked as a corporate lawyer for two Connecticut law firms before launching his own practice Fairfield, Connecticut.

Since 1990, Cliff has produced a series of informational products on legal career management---including Legal Job Interview, The Business Lawyer's Handbook, and Your Legal Career---and has toured law schools around the country doing lectures and seminars. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the New York State Bar Association’s handbook on New York corporations, and edits the “Small Business Legal Forms” series of treatises for the West Group. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 181 pages
• Publisher: Biennix Corp; Revised edition (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963283553
• ISBN-13: 978-0963283559
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,947,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful advice, April 4, 2010

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Studious Munchkin "The Law" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Legal Job Interview: Winning the Law-Related Job in Today's Market (Paperback)

I'm a 1L who needed a summer internship and typically does poorly in interviews. Well, *did* poorly until recently. Apparently now I am awesome.

Here's the deal. When you watch movies, the one who gets the job is the one who stands out and does something spectacular. I'm thinking of an old E.R. episode where the doctor was interviewing candidate after candidate and every one of them said they wanted "to help people." Finally, a candidate said he was "in it for the money," and he got the job. I always thought that the stand-out behavior was how people get those really awesome jobs. I read a bunch of books from my school's career center. None of them shattered that notion - in fact they nurtured it. Except Ennico's. I feel like the wisdom in this book was the most effective, simple, rational, and also, entertaining. Not to say that the other books don't have their place too, but this one is a must-read. By the way, if you go to [...] you can read up to 40 pages of this!

Ennico recommends nothing bizarre or uncomfortable. In fact, the more shy or reserved or nervous about interviews you are, the more you should read this because it will put you at ease.

In conclusion, I am proud to say that this one worked! AFTER I used the advice in this book, I got every single offer. This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. I interviewed at 4 places and got those 4 offers! Even with one interviewer that was notoriously difficult, I was able to handle the interview with ease and I got the offer! I would write more but I have to read Contracts, (the Consequences of Non-performance.) If you are reading this, good luck in your job search.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good!, September 8, 2009

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Massari Riccardo "attorney" (Bologna, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Legal Job Interview: Winning the Law-Related Job in Today's Market (Paperback)

This is a book that helps handle real situations and problems with real (and effective!) solutions.
The most important thing to say about Ennico's tips is that they are effective: I bought this book before a round of 4 interviews and I got 4 offers! (It's not a big scale I know, but 100% success is the first time in my life..). Funnily, the book solved me also the problem of how to make a choice between different offers :)

I think that the reason of this success is one: this book made me considering issues and aspects of the job seeking process I've never taken care (or even had consciousness) before.
I am an Italian lawyer and I was seeking a lateral to a senior associate role in a new firm. There are no books focused on legal job interviews in Italian, and before buying this one I feared that cultural differences in the hiring process between US end Europe might render the insight of the book less useful, but that was NOT the case; Ennico's tips are really "worldwide" useful!

This is why I feeled I had to put my review (sorry for my bad English sytntax but I am Italian...).

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars review, January 5, 2010

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Maria - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Legal Job Interview: Winning the Law-Related Job in Today's Market (Paperback)

I bought this book together with another interviewing book ("Nail Your Law Job Interview") as a gift for a friend's law school graduation. She thought this book offered very little practical advice and was a long and boring read. She really liked the other book though and felt it was much more useful. Having reviewed both of these books myself, I tend to agree with her. This book reads more like a personal bio than a practical guide. I don't think it's worth the money. But I would recommend buying "Nail Your Law Job Interview" - it was a fun read.