Are you a practicing attorney looking to transfer to a Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) jurisdiction? Or maybe you are a full-time worker looking to study for the UBE? Either way, our UBE Course is a great solution for you. Read below for five reasons why the UBE Course is the best solution for full-time workers taking the UBE!
Five Things to Get Out of Your 1L Summer Experience: Whether you are working at a firm, in-house, or courthouse this summer, all 1L students should be thinking about maximizing their potential and getting the most out of their 1L summer experience.
An important part of searching for a legal job is networking. Besides your credentials, who you know might be the key to finding the right job.
Obtaining a judicial clerkship can be a valuable experience to include on a legal resume. Judicial clerkships typically teach research and writing skills, usually at appellate-level courts, and provide exposure to the courtroom, usually at the trial level. There are federal clerkships and state clerkships. Federal clerkships are considered more prestigious than state clerkships, but both provide great opportunities to develop legal research, writing, and lawyering skills.
After all your hard work researching and writing, the last, and most important, step before submission is to edit your legal document. Here are a few general legal editing tips to look out for to make the piece clean and precise before submission to a court, boss, professor, or client.
How to Start Your Own Law Firm How to Start Your Own Law Firm: Starting a law firm can be an extremely rewarding endeavor. If you have your own firm, you can set your own hours, hire people to work for you as you please, and choose your own clientele and specialty.
It can also be exhausting to start your own law firm! In the beginning, you will have to work a lot of hours. You will also have to get used to wearing multiple hats — lawyer, marketer, secretary, accountant, janitor, etc. As you gain success, you can start to hire help and delegate (which are two other skills that are difficult for some). Read more
You’ve graduated after a successful law school career, and now have the big law firm position you’ve always wanted. Now, the only thing standing in your way is to pass the bar exam! Much like the rest of law school, bar review courses are expensive. You’ve heard firms sometimes help cover bar preparation services, but are not sure how true this is. So, generally, do big law firms pay for bar prep? And how do they do it?
Studying for the bar exam is one of the most important things you will ever do in your professional career. For this reason, it is critical that you put as much effort into it as possible and that you try to do it correctly. Taking the bar is incredibly stressful and time consuming, which is all the more reason to do everything you can so that you only have to take it once! Many people preparing for the exam also have a job, making wondering whether you should take time off work to study for the bar exam a very common question.
JD Advising founder, Ashley Heidemann, is proud to have an article published in the May 2017 edition of the Michigan Bar Journal.
Ashley Heidemann’s article is titled “The Business of Practicing Law: Targeting Millenials.” The article discusses how law firms and laywers can better tailor their practices in order to reach the millenial generation. The Michigan bar journal article outlines 7 steps for lawyers and firms to take if they seek to make their businesses more “millenial friendly”.
To read the article on “The Business of Practicing Law: Targeting Millenials” please click on the link. Read more
Should I Ask My Boss To Pay For Bar Review?: While law school itself can be incredibly expensive, unfortunately, it does not end there. Bar review courses can cost in excess of thousands of dollars. Now while that doesn’t sound appealing, it is a necessary evil, and something you need to commit to. You didn’t just work your way through three years of law school to put your career as a lawyer in jeopardy by not preparing properly for the bar. A bar review course is well worth it, especially for first-time takers. The bar exam is not something you want to tackle on your own.
What Is Document Review?If you went to law school and are looking for a job outside of a traditional law firm, or need some work while preparing for the bar exam, document review might be for you! Below, a recent law school graduate gives an inside look at document reviewer positions.
Document Review Pros and ConsDocument review is a growing field of employment for attorneys, especially given the challenging job market in many parts of the country. Below, a law school graduate details the pros and cons of a document review position.
The follow post is by a recent law school graduate who passed the bar exam and is looking for employment as a lawyer. These are the two critical tips to law students she wished she knew during law school!
Should I start studying for the bar exam early?: Many students worry about when they start their bar prep. Typically, most students for the July bar will start in May, and for the February bar exam, they will start in December. For some, though, bar exam prep needs to start earlier, for a variety of reasons. In our experience, the people who need to start their bar prep early are those who:
Our 7 Best Workflow tips: Nothing is more annoying than spending a day unmotivated, dragging your feet. Or realizing you have spent the past two hours on Facebook instead of getting anything done. Or, seeing half of your to-do list left for tomorrow. Here are our seven best workflow tips to combat unproductivity and inefficiency. Whether you are a law student, a lawyer, or something else entirely, we hope our seven best workflow tips can help you! Read more
