Career Advice – Page 6

Top Tips For Dealing With Millennials in Law Firms

Career Advice, Law Job News, New Zealand Law News, Press Releases / July 23, 2018

There’s a new generation in town and they are steadily becoming your employees. But, contrary to popular belief, millennials don’t overtly want to be treated differently, and instead, are looking to assimilate into your workplace with as little fuss as possible. Characteristics associated with this generation include different ways of communicating and differing expectations from […]

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The Law Associate Pay Surge Continues, Hitting $190,000

Career Advice, Law Job News / June 9, 2018

The Law Associate Pay Surge Continues Hitting $190,000

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Looking For a UK Law Job? It Pays To Be Posh

Career Advice, Headlining, Law Firms, UK Law / February 18, 2018

It pays to be posh if you’re looking for a top UK law job. A private education will secure you a better paid law job in the UK, a new survey has shown. A ‘conscious or unconscious bias’ exists in favour of those students who studied at private schools compared to state-schooled students, the survey

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2 Maori Women Who Used Their Law Degrees Via Different Paths To Reach The Same Employer

Career Advice, Law Job News, New Zealand Law News / February 5, 2018

Two women lawyers, both Maori, have wound up working for the same company after taking entirely separate routes to their current jobs: One a varied and more circuitous journey and one a more traditional one. Both demonstrate the opportunities that exist for women lawyers notwithstanding the obstacles that confront many in the profession. VUW Law

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3 Things Judge Judy Can Teach Women Lawyers

Career Advice, Headlining, Law Firms, LawStars / January 18, 2018

Sandra Mahoney* I deal daily with women in the law who make the oft-heard complaint about the lack of fairness and parity with their male colleagues in the law. One – in fact three, things – that struck a chord with me was comments made by the highest paid lawyer in the country, Judy Sheindlin,

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6 Non-Traditional Career Paths For Lawyers

Career Advice, Headlining, Law Job News / January 11, 2018

Whether you have just graduated, or you have been practicing law for many years, you may find yourself wondering where you want to be in a few years’ time. After all, a law degree is extremely versatile, and open doors to an impressive array of potential career paths. Yet competition is fierce. In fact,

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Why I Don’t Want A Partnership: The Millennial Change in Law Firm Career Aspirations

Career Advice, Law Firms, Law Job News / January 10, 2018

Rachel Howard* Making partner – especially making partner in a Big Law outfit – is the holy grail for many who enter the hallowed halls of such places. Or is it? An increasing number of lawyers appear to be rejecting the ambitious route towards wealth, prestige and power, in favor of other things – like

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Being a Mom And an Attorney: How To Meet The Challenge To Be A Successful Working Mom Lawyer

Career Advice, Lawyers / December 25, 2017

Barbara Bowden* – Only about a third of all attorneys are female— and that number is hard-won, as in this typically male-dominated world, women have worked hard to carve their niche. A bit of history regarding women in the law profession: In 1868, Mary E. Magoon opened her own law office in Iowa, although

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The Personal Payoff For a Young Kiwi Lawyer Passing the ‘Tortuous’ California Bar Exam

Career Advice, Featured, Law schools / November 19, 2017

Clerking for a Supreme Court Justice to working on Death Row are career extremes even for a young lawyer just embarking on his legal career, but the California Bar is “pure torture” but for this young lawyer there was also a personal payoff too. But for kiwi lawyer Andrew Row one of the seminal moments

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The Barrister Who Beat “Blowtorch Competition” And Pressure

Australia Law News, Career Advice, LawStars / October 11, 2017

The pressure for lawyers to succeed – or anyone to succeed for that matter – is increasing and also increasing at as younger age. But one Sydney barrister has ‘come clean’ over her secrets of failure and the fears that came with it. The Sydney Morning Herald carried an article about Sharna Clemmett, 38, a

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