Leaving The Law: Finding the Right Mix for Your Passions
Offering legal career advice or mixing up cocktails—both can help members of the bar. Don’t forget to find your passion.
Author: Cheryl Rich Heisler
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What happens when a legal career path isn’t right choice for you?
If you choose not to pursue a career in justice, remember that the law isn’t bad—and you’re not bad—it’s just that the fit is wrong. Figure out where you do fit, and then use the amazing skills you gained on the way to becoming a JD to pursue most any path you like.
Change begets change: Six post-COVID trends shaping the legal profession
Whoever remarked that “the only constant is change” was clearly onto something. Here are six post-pandemic trends to consider as you continue to plan your legal career.
Don’t let law school grades determine whether you make the grade
Law school grades are simply one indicator of your legal potential. Those little letters don’t define or determine your future.
Law careers in the wake of COVID
Nobody can predict the future, something COVID has so painfully taught us. Anyone who feels certain they know what’s going to happen next is either prescient or prophetic. While I’m a huge believer in doing what you love, I’ve also been around the career-transition business long enough to
Putting the pro into pro bono
Simply put, we need more productive people to provide more help to more people. If living through this pandemic has taught us nothing else, at least we’ve learned how interconnected we truly are. To borrow a line from Disneyland, “It’s a small world after all.”
Civility made simple: It's the right choice
There’s no shortage of incivility in the country today. On what seems like a daily basis, we’re witness to more divisiveness, more violence, and more ugly rhetoric than I’ve ever experienced in my lifetime. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we, as lawyers and future lawyers,
Chaos and your career: Welcome to 2020
From pandemics to protests, 2020 has jumbled personal lives and career paths, and it’s nowhere near over. No one can guarantee an uptick in the number of legal jobs, where those jobs will turn out to be, or even when new hiring might occur. What does that mean for you? Here’s what we know.
The life cycle of a student lawyer
Back in my undergraduate days, I learned about product life cycles. As a communications major, we studied how consumer products moved in a fairly predictable path from introduction to growth to maturity and, ultimately, to decline. Each phase was accompanied by certain pros and cons,
To be, or not to be? Tradition isn't the only answer
Tradition, especially in the law, means a lot. Traditions connect us to people and ideas that came before. They can add meaning to the things we say and do. But tradition can also hold us back from addressing choices that need rethinking. It’s OK to start fresh every
The flip side of doing good
No one says that doing good for others can’t also mean doing something good for yourself.
Are you asking the right career question?
To make the right career move, be sure you’re not asking the wrong career-change question.
Three ways to maximize the career potential in each of your law school summers
What are you planning on doing this and maybe the next few summers? If you plan it well, three years of law school can provide you with up to four summers’ worth of work experience in law/related fields. From traditional law firm summer associate roles, to courtroom clerkships,
Be 'discriminating' yourself: Taking control over interviews
Uncomfortable situations, even if not technically “discriminatory,” can occur even before you land your new job. Make your best defense a strong offense.
The realities of the 2019 legal job search
How do today’s law students (yes,we’re talking about students like you) stack up when it comes to making smart job-search moves?
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