The Associate Pirate

Legal Blog Watch just posted about my post on ATL today:
If you’re trying to figure out which practice areas are hot, why not go to the source: the law firm associates who work in those areas. And that’s what Above the Law’s David Lat has done. Last week, he asked readers to […]

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So, now that we’ve been doing surveys together on Above The Law for a bit, Dave invited me to try my hand at writing some posts, so yesterday I posted on ATL.
Yesterday’s survey was on ATL’s Lawyer of the Year poll, and it will be interesting to see whether ATL readers mirror the Wall Street […]

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One thing that I kicked around with the guys at Lateral Link before joining the company was the concept of doing some online surveys, and generating some data that we could share with the associates we work with.
Well, we’ve gone from concept to execution in about 2 1/2 weeks. Starting today, I’ll be helping […]

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I don’t think I realized until my sixth or seventh year out of law school that there were legal recruiters out there who had actually been practicing lawyers first. This is a profession largely populated by sales folks, many of whom have never set foot in a law school, much less a courtroom or a […]

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The Associate Pirate (Arr is for Resume!) is a blog about law firms, lawyers, and legal recruiting. Specifically, it’s about my experiences and views as a legal recruiter.
Although legal recruiters tend to blog anonymously, I just don’t think there’s much point to having a secret identity. Sure, I’m a placement superhero, but it’s not like I have […]

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