job interviews

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If I get an offer from the second firm, I’m bailing on the first one in a heartbeat. Is this unethical?

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With on-campus interviews starting this week at most law schools, we go soft and pull out the bitter highlights of our advice for law students.

The down and dirty of the law school OCI process. (Click the image to see the full comic.)

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QThis is probably a first-year level question, but I was looking for advice on how to select proper writing samples to use when applying for jobs. I am four years out of law school and have accumulated a decent collection of memorandum and demand letters over the years at my current firm and was wondering [...]

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QI’m a third-year student at a T1 law school and near the top of my class. I have done fairly well in my interviews, and I am confident that I will be hired into a New York BigLaw firm, which has been a goal of mine since the tail end of high school. Problem: I have [...]

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The end of the road for Bitter Lawyer’s series on OCI, law school interview tips, and how to impress hiring partners.

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The latest in our OCI/interview/job hunting series for law students with all the down and dirty details you want to know from hiring partners.

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The OCI season is in full swing. And while we totally understand that all schools are at different points in the process (first rounds, callbacks, etc.), everyone is freaked out about interviewing well enough to receive a job offer. An offer to actually work as a lawyer and not a paralegal or building contractor. What’s standing between [...]

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[Ed. Note: A refreshed version of our 9.2.08 post, this list kicks off our focus on the OCI/interview/job hunting process for law students.  We’re working on several exclusive pieces that will be sporadically posted over the next weeks as a flint of guidance for bitter law students living in this insane legal era. Update: Check [...]

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The TemPimp works out of some suburban strip mall hell-hole in an office sandwiched between a rundown H&R Block and one of those ghetto Chinese food joints that also serves sushi. I park my car, taking note of a blonde who reminds me of the Swiss Miss girl. But with a better rack. Apparently, she got [...]