Have you heard of martindale.com?
Here in the Career Development we talk about building relationships and making friends. One good website to begin searching for new friends and relationships is martindale.com. You can search for attorneys, law firms, and a few companies through this site. Once upon a time, this site use to be a volume of books! Here are [...]
Recap: Da Vinci’s Cover Letter
Leonardo Da Vinci, renowned inventor and artist, probably never invented the Code with which he is most recently associated. However, like any other person, he did once need a job, and he did write a cover letter to try to get that job. The employer was the Duke of Milan, and Leonardo wrote this letter [...]
Write to the Right Audience
Sara Cuniff, with the UC Berkeley School of Law, wrote an interesting article for the NALP bulletin, in which she identified something I hadn’t thought of before. In her brief article, Ms. Cuniff suggests, “It is the academic admissions statement that often peeps through the lines of the letters students submit with job applications.” That’s [...]
The Infamous J.D. Conundrum
Have you ever noticed the small quirks to degree titles? Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy (when it seems that should be a DPh), for example. M.S. is a Master of Science, which you would refer to as a Master’s degree. B.A. is a Bachelor of Arts, which is then referred to as a Bachelor’s degree. [...]
In Case You Missed It: Lavender Law 2011 Recap
One of the members of our office staff had the great opportunity to attend Lavender Law 2011 out in Los Angeles, and came away with a lot of new knowledge. We shared this in a Lunch and Learn Friday September 16th, but in case you missed it, here is some of the information about Lavender [...]