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Description
Transitioning from law school into your first official legal job is no easy task, and the ABA Career Resource Center has developed guideposts to help you overcome feeling overwhelmed. "100 Plus Pointers for New Lawyers on Adjusting to Your Job" guides lawyers and law students through what you need to know, from how to work with your new boss to how to keep the copy machine working. Get oriented to the working world through this electronic set of 100 Plus tailored tips, tactics, and tools for early success in the legal profession.
Representative tips include from this publication include:
Pointer #26
Understanding Online Research Economics
You no longer have unlimited, free access to popular online legal research systems. Remember to inquire about the specific pricing structure your firm contracts for with vendors, as the agreed-upon pricing may vary. Contact your administrator or the firm's provider representative to get a full understanding of how and for what the firm will becharged before you go online.
Pointer #48
Making Mistakes
No one expects you to know everything. Be sure to ask for help and learn as much as you can from others' mistakes and examples. If you do make amistake, let your supervising attorney know immediately. The more you try to correct a problem, the worse it might become. Most likely, after you feel the terror, he or she will admit having been in the same or a similar situation.
Pointer #82
Recognizing Your Internal Clients
Do not be lulled into thinking the only clients you have are those who pay the firm. In fact, your primary clients as a new attorney are the partners and more senior associates you serve and assist. Responsiveness and eagerness are attributes these clients want and deserve from you, as well.
About the Editor
Kathy Morris is an attorney and the Chief Career Development Officer at Gardner Carton & Douglas in Chicago. Following 14 years in the practice of law as a trial lawyer, law school Adjunct Professor and Career Counseling Director at Northwestern University School of Law, Ms. Morris served for six years as the Director of Professional Training at a 400-attorney multi-office firm based in Chicago. She is also the founder of Under Advisement, Ltd., a career counseling for lawyers practice in Chicago. Ms. Morris authors a long-running monthly column in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, "Career Question" (1992-present), is the author of the ABA career manual Objection Overruled...Overcoming Obstacles in the Lawyer Job Search, and co-author of two companion works, Direct Examination... A Workbook for Lawyer Career Satisfaction and Ask the Career Counselors... Answers for Lawyers and Their Life's Work. She hosts a weekly online career question-and-answer forum, the Tuesday Job Search Answer Board, on the ABA Career Counsel website. Ms. Morris earned her J.D. in 1975 at Northeastern Law School in Boston and her B.A. with Honors in 1971 from the University of Michigan.
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