Does your company have a climate-friendly reputation, value the importance of a diverse workforce and have grounded governance policies? When investors want to know more about your company, these are some of the investment considerations. The latest metric that … [more]
The Lawyers Career Blog
Getting the Most Out of Your Job Search Through the Candidate-Recruiter Relationship
You have heard the phrase “you get what you give.” Well, that is a truism that informs your legal career search just as much as any other endeavor. Stated otherwise, the more energy and insight you put into your next … [more]
How GCs Can Build a Legal Department Poised for the Future
The kinds of opportunities and uncertainties facing companies today are as challenging as any in modern history. As you may know, executive teams must always thoroughly analyze – and revisit – their priorities and goals and identify ways to optimize … [more]
Will Knowledge of Cryptocurrency Help My Legal Career?
Over the last few years, Cryptocurrency has garnered more and more attention. Just last month, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. While story after story has been written about the unpredictability and … [more]
Interim or Contract Work: How is it Perceived?
If you are an attorney who is currently considering career options or alternatives, then you likely have considered the world of temporary or “contract attorney” work to bridge the gap or as a career option. It is indeed … [more]
How Are Salary Wars and Remote Work Impacting In-House Recruiting?
The world of Big Law is a competitive one, and that competition sometimes results in firms trying to “one-up” each other on associate pay. This summer is another example of that periodic phenomenon. Recently we have seen firm after … [more]
Is Top Compensation Enough?
Starting salaries for first-year associates at Milbank were just raised to $200k, and for eighth-year associates to $355k. Other firms, including McDermott Will & Emery, Cadwalader, Mintz, Winston & Strawn, and Fenwick, quickly followed suit. Davis Polk, in fact, did … [more]
Market Report: The Demand for “Brand Lawyers”
“Brand lawyers” are in demand in the life sciences industry. The term “brand lawyer” is often used to describe an attorney with experience supporting a specific brand/product that is on the market. For example, a brand lawyer within the pharmaceutical industry … [more]
Tackling the Budget-Workload Conundrum as We Move Out of the Covid Crisis
At the end of last year, when Covid was still a prominent factor on the minds of all corporations, many companies decreased the size of their legal department budgets. It was a move that was designed to deal with the … [more]
“Incremental Progress” for Diversity in the Legal Industry
In February 2021, the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) released its 2020 Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms. Unfortunately, the numbers on diversity and inclusion showed only a slight uptick, revealing “incremental progress.” In a time when our … [more]
