Mike Spivey served as a law school dean of career services during the Great Recession, and in this podcast he shares actionable advice for legal networking that you won't hear from your CSO.
Read full postToo few applicants know this — this is actually what starting salaries look like for those right out of law school.
Read full postIn a sense, this is a blog post 25 years in the making.
Read full postEvery year at the end of the summer, law schools invite law firms to their campuses to interview students for jobs.
Read full postIntroduction We were asked to write about choosing between a T14 school at sticker (full tuition) versus a T20 to T30 school with merit aid. The below constitutes our best stab at that, but please keep in mind that, as always, these are arbitrary cutoff points based on one flawed rankings system and not designed for you as an individual. Point being that a school ranked 18 may be much more valuable to you for any number of reasons that a school ranked 13, etc. If you want to read or watch more
Read full postIf you can be good at one thing, you can be good at anything. Leadership has always fascinated me (in fact much of my doctoral program work in Higher Education Leadership was on just that) — but more precisely — people who always seem to successfully lead organizations and teams are the most intriguing, and for obvious and self-serving reasons — I'd like to emulate them. That number of "successful at whatever they do" leaders, however, gets surprisingly low very quickly. There are many people
Read full post(Updated 5/26/2017) We've reached out (three times now!) to a number of friends at law schools and at firms and companies to see what things applicants did that made them grouchy (pro tip — it isn’t in your best interest to make them grouchy!). This is what we got; not surprisingly, a good deal of the items mentioned are related to emails. Law School Admissions/Employment Pet Peeves 1. When they launch into a sales presentation about themselves the moment we meet. -CEO of Company
Read full postThe Quest for the Golden Ring – Advice for Summer Law Clerks, Part 2 of 2 Guest post by Jay Price This is a continuation of my earlier blog [https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/summering-this-summer/] with advice for incoming summer clerk classes. Start dates are around the corner. A handful of additional tips: * Don’t Complain. You can’t always pick every project or partner you work for. Take advantage of opportunities to learn about all practice areas and don’t complain about or turn do
Read full postHere is some more advice from Hiring Partner/Committee Member Jay Price. More advice, don’t use the same word twice in one 3 word sentence. The Quest for the Golden Ring – Advice for Summer Law Clerks, Part 1 of 2 Guest post by Jay Price My earlier blog entitled The Biglaw Devil Wears Brooks Brothers/Ann Taylor focused mainly on the importance of summers getting along with others, not taking anything for granted and being team players. With summer approaching, here are some additional tips. W
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