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Pre-Law Advising | Descriptive Career Information | Job Banks and Searching Advice | Law Firm Directories | Associations | Graduate School Information

Pre-Law Advising

Pre-Law Advising at Simmons College
Register with the pre-law advisor, Leanne Doherty, to gain guidance on your path to law school. This site includes an online registration form, testing information, and an extensive recommended reading list.
http://www.simmons.edu/academics/undergraduate/pre-law/

NAPLA (Northeast Association of Pre-Law Advisors)
Site contains information on graduate programs, associations, journals, and financial aid, among others.
http://napla.org/pre-law%20resources.htm

A Day in the Life

Career Profiles: Attorney
Provides a look at the daily duties of attorneys, and outlines the direction of the career and the prospects for those wishing to join the profession.
http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=16

Career Profiles: Corporate Lawyer
Provides a look at the daily duties of corporate attorneys, and outlines the direction of the career and the prospects for those wishing to join the profession.
http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=168

Profiles from a Law Firm
Profiles of lawyers involved in several different departments of a large, well-known law firm are provided. Personal accounts of daily activities are also outlined.
http://www.swlaw.com/recruiting/a_day_in_the_life.asp

Day in the Life: Law Professionals
This portal of career information describes the daily routine of a number of legal professionals: click on Career Advice and look for "A Day in the Life" under Work/Life. The list of careers includes: Assistant District Attorney, Bankruptcy Law Associate, Corporate Law Partner, Employment Litigator, Litigation Associate, Plaintiff's Lawyer, Public Defender, SEC Staff Attorney, and Union Attorney.

NOTE:
Current students and staff can access Vault on campus and remotely using their Simmons log-in:
http://0-www.vault.com.library.simmons.edu/cb/careerlib/
careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=2336

Alumni have off-site access to the Vault Online Career Library provided by the Simmons Office of Alumnae/i Relations with Alumnet registration with Alumnet registration. To register for Alumnet, go to:
https://www.alumnet.simmons.edu/olc/pub/SNS/register/register.cgi.
To log-on to Vault through Alumnet, go to:
http://www.alumnet.simmons.edu/olc/membersonly/SNS/career_lib.html

A free version of Vault, which also contains the Vault job board, is available at http://www.vault.com.

 

Descriptive Career Information

Lawyers - Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook provides career outlook, descriptive career, and salary information on lawyers, paralegals and legal assistants, court reporters, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos053.htm

Industry Advice: Law Careers
This portal of career information includes a collection of articles about law careeres: click on Career Advice and look for "Law Careers " under Industry Advice .

NOTE:
Current students and staff can access Vault on campus and remotely using their Simmons log-in:
http://0-www.vault.com.library.simmons.edu/cb/careerlib/
careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=2336

Alumni have off-site access to the Vault Online Career Library provided by the Simmons Office of Alumnae/i Relations with Alumnet registration with Alumnet registration. To register for Alumnet, go to:
https://www.alumnet.simmons.edu/olc/pub/SNS/register/register.cgi.
To log-on to Vault through Alumnet, go to:
http://www.alumnet.simmons.edu/olc/membersonly/SNS/career_lib.html

A free version of Vault, which also contains the Vault job board, is available at http://www.vault.com.

Job Banks and Searching Advice

LawJobs.com
Job listings for law careers from classifieds; can also search legal firms.
http://www.lawjobs.com/

FindLaw Career Center
Recruiting website that provides job listings as well as employer information for career research, view employer profiles, create a target list by location or keyword, etc.
http://www.careers.findlaw.com/

Law Crossing
Lists internships, summer associate positions and entry level law jobs nationwide.
http://www.lawcrossing.com/

Lawyers Weekly Job Listings
Job listings from the classified advertisements of this weekly journal.
http://www.lawyersweeklyjobs.com/

Legal Employment Search Site
A collection of legal employment web resources.
http://www.legalemploy.com/

Association of Patent Law Firms Job Bank
Patent Law Firm job listings.
http://www.aplf.org/jobs/

SummerClerk
Employment site for law students looking for summer employment.
http://www.summerclerk.com/

National Federation of Paralegal Associations Career Center
Job listings and relevant articles for paralegals from a professional association for paralegals.
http://paralegals.legalstaff.com/

Paralegal Links
Paralegal career links from Hartwick College with links to job banks, descriptive information, and career advice.
http://info.hartwick.edu/tcpd/webx/webx.html

See Also: General Job Banks and Other Job Search Tools

Law Firm Directories

Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
Create a list of firms or lawyers by specialization, geographic area, firm size, and law school attended.
http://lawyers.martindale.com/

Associations

American Bar Association
750 North Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60611.
http://www.abanet.org/

National Association of Legal Assistants
1516 South Boston St., Suite 200, Tulsa, OK 74119.
Includes information on the Certified Legal Assistant exam, schools that offer training programs in a specific state, and standards and guidelines for paralegals.
http://www.nala.org/

National Federation of Paralegal Associations
P.O. Box 33108, Kansas City, MO 64114.
Includes information on a career as a paralegal, schools that offer training programs, job postings for paralegals, the Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam, and local paralegal associations.
http://www.paralegals.org/

National Court Reporters Association
8224 Old Courthouse Rd., Vienna, VA 22182.
http://www.ncraonline.org/

United States Court Reporters Association
P.O. Box 465, Chicago, Il 60690-0465..
http://www.uscra.org/

National Verbatim Reporters Association
207 Third Avenue, Hattiesburg, MS 39401 .
http://www.nvra.org/

American Arbitration Association
335 Madison Ave., Floor 10, New York, NY 10017.
Includes information on arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators.
http://www.adr.org/

Boston Bar Association
16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108.
http://www.bostonbar.org/

Boston Patent Law Assocation
8 Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston, MA 02109
http://www.bpla.org

Graduate School Information

Law School Admission Council
P.O. Box 40, Newtown, PA 18940.
http://www.lsac.org/

American Association for Paralegal Education
407 Wekiva Springs Road, Suite 241, Longwood, FL 32779.
http://www.aafpe.org/

Peterson's Graduate Education Center
Peterson's online searchable graduate program database. Users can search graduate programs nationally by keyword, location, etc.
http://www.petersons.com

 

 

See Also

Pre-Law Advising

Political Science

Government

International Relations

Non-profit/Social Change

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