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Navigating the firm invasion<br />
The suits are coming! The suits are coming! Within a week, a remarkable visual transformation will occur on campus. The Fall Recruitment Program, formally called "OCI" for On Campus Interviewing, is about to begin. Students are dressed for success as they embark on an odyssey to secure summer or post-graduate employment.
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Negotiating the clerkship maze<br />
A judicial clerkship is an excellent foundation for any type of legal career. A clerkship provides the unique opportunity to work as basically an assistant judge (although purely behind-the-scenes), typically at the beginning of a legal career. Clerks generally serve for a one-year fixed term, although some judges hire clerks for two-year terms.
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Clerking: View from the trenches<br />
Reality check: If you haven't applied for clerkships already, you are behind. Sorry, but it's true. I'm not saying it's time to panic. But despite what the HLS clerkship interview tracking site says, Selya, Lynch, Boudin, Reinhardt, Tattle, Garland, Williams, Calabresi, Ginsburg, Cabranes, O'Scannlain, Kozinski and Ebel, are already interviewing and most have hired HLS clerks already for the 2003-2004 term.
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Finding your field of dreams<br />
Without becoming too philosophical, as law students, you must regularly examine your motives for joining and staying in the profession. Your reasons for practicing 15 years after graduation are likely to be far different from those when you submitted your law school applications.
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“If” (For Law Students)<br />
If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs in every interview,If you can trust yourself when recruiters doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting, too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, And though keen to please, refrain from lies; Or being rated, don't worship rating, You'll sound your best, yet be truly wise.
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Despite slowdown, Boston welcomes young lawyers<br />
Why stay in Boston? Although the high-tech boom has ended, Boston remains endowed with a wonderfully diverse industry base. With strengths in software, Internet, telecommunications, biotechnology, biomedical, venture capital, investment management, mutual fund, health care, defense and education industries, Boston is a balanced economic market.
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California markets are changing — and not for the better<br />
Law firm hiring, like the economy, is cyclical. We have seen ups and downs over the past 20 years, and following explosive growth in the late 1990s, we are, once again, in a downswing. Dramatic law firm growth began in the exuberant 1980s, with the expansion in the size and number of offices of California-based firms.
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The Road Less Taken<br />
Like everyone else, we at the Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA) have found it hard to focus on much beyond the tragic events of this week. However, we do have some strongly held beliefs about the importance of helping our students and alums find the right career paths.
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Splitting with the DOJ casts new light on lush firm life<br />
Setting aside the political partisanship and recent electoral history, the day Attorney General John Ashcroft hosted the annual summer DOJ intern event, college undergraduates, law clerks and other professional degree candidates from divisions as varied as Commercial Litigation, Computer Crimes, Environmental and Natural Resources, the FBI and INS thronged into the inner halls of Main Justice, filling every fold-up chair in the Grand Hall.
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Burning the midnight oil in the nation’s capital<br />
Summertime and the living is easy. Although Gershwin's lyrics ring true for most (if not all) law students throughout our nation, they are particularly appropriate for those who spent the halcyon days of summer 2001 in our nation's capital. From Georgetown to Adams Morgan, Capitol Hill to Alexandria, Dupont Circle to Bethesda, the Washington, D.
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Life is good in the heartland<br />
When asked about my summer work experience, the first question most people ask is, "Why Kansas City?" I grew up in California, went to school and worked in Washington, D.C., and now live in Boston -- to most of my acquaintances, Kansas City seemed like an eclectic choice.