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5 Tips on How To Effectively Market Your Law Firm
By Anonymous • January 09, 2022 •Careers, Firms and the Private Sector, Issues, Mentoring and Networking
Marketing can be done using various mediums, like social media, TV commercials, billboards, print ads in newspapers and magazines, etc. It is imperative to have a strong marketing team to ensure that your firm's message reaches its intended audience. Every company has a sales team that caters to new clients and makes them aware of the company's value proposition. A legal marketing team does the same for a law firm. The only difference is that the buyers in legal marketing are your law firm's clients. Why is Marketing Important for Lawyers? Online coaches and Internet gurus like Anthony Morrison believe…
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Classroom to the Courtroom: Dynamic Legal Careers for the Former Educator
By Ms. JD Editor • November 12, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Careers, Other Career Issues
You taught in K-12 schools and now may want to “use” your education experience in law. If so, this blog post is for you. By way of background, I went to law school knowing that I wanted to somehow remain connected to the education world. I was an elementary school teacher in local public charter schools for three years immediately prior to law school. But my law school at that time had no professors with this experience and I was the only one of my peers who wanted to go into this area of practice. The career counselors at my…
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Making the Most Out of Attorney Performance Reviews
By Ms. JD Editor • October 18, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Careers
Every law firm or legal organization conducts performance reviews, albeit differently. Some have formal evaluations and many actually offer informal evaluations, but you have to be proactive and ask. However, I have many lawyer friends who don’t have any such system at their respective organizations or they are really on their own in terms of tracking their performance. Regardless of your organization’s way of evaluating employees, carving out some time regularly to assess your work performance is definitely a best practice for any lawyer. Some lawyers find that their own firm’s annual performance review doesn’t help them or fails to…
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The Road Less Traveled: How Your Law School Professors Can Change Your Life
By Ms. JD Editor • October 12, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Law School
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William A. Ward As a first-generation law student, entering law school was a daunting and nerve-racking experience. I had no idea what to anticipate, perhaps with exception to the general saying that all law students hear: “your 1L year they scare you to death, your 2L year they work you to death, and your 3L year they bore you to death.” Although this saying is somewhat catchy, it does not prepare you for the realities of the obstacles of law school and the practice…
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Five Bizarre Cases Every Law Student Should Read
By Ms. JD Editor • September 28, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Law School
Facts. Procedural history. Issue. Rule. Holding. Concurrences or dissents. I used this case brief formula hundreds of times during my three years in law school and I fear is permanently seared into my brain. Most of the cases I briefed have long since escaped my mind, but others …well, others were just so strange that still remember telling my friends and family about them! If you’re a law student looking for cases worthy of sharing on a phone call to family back home, here are five bizarre cases that you must read. The Ghostbusters Case If there’s something strange in your neighborhood,…
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Q&A with Tsiwen Law, Esq.
By Ms. JD Editor • September 28, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence
Q&A with Tsiwen Law, Esq.: Real Estate Litigator, Civil Rights Advocate, and Adjunct Professor of Race and the Law When I was a law student at Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, I attended several bar association events with the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania. At the time, I was a recipient of the Judge William M. Marutani Fellowship, a stipend to subsidize law students’ summer work in public interest or government during their IL and 2L summers. The Judge William M. Marutani Fellowship serves to honor the legacy of Judge Marutani, the first Asian-American judge…
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It Takes A Village
By Ms. JD Editor • August 20, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Law School
Everyone has a unique experience when it comes to their journey through law school. A quick Google search about “what to expect in law school” will give you 919,000,000 results. 919 million different points of view on what to expect, how to survive, or why you shouldn’t go. There are so many paths to finding success in law school…this is mine. I was one of those people who graduated from undergrad and was completely burned out. If I never looked at another educational book, it would be too soon. I was over it. My parents made it clear that I…
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Five Reasons to Study Abroad in Law School
By Ms. JD Editor • August 20, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Law School
To paraphrase Charles Hamilton Houston, “lawyers are either social engineers or social pariahs.” Like many former educators turned lawyers, I decided to go to law school because I knew that my calling was to advance some sort of social change, especially within public education. Change can only happen by promoting cultural competency in professions, in the legal system, and as a result, I believe that it can transform the trajectory of society and communities. I am a daughter of a Filipina mother and an Ecuadorian father. Both my parents immigrated to the United States in the late 70s from different…
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Studying Abroad as a Law Student: Tips from Assistant Dean of International Programs Andrew Horsfall
By Ms. JD Editor • August 20, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence, Law School
Some of my favorite law school memories took place not within the walls of my contracts class, but throughout the streets of Europe. My law school offers several unique study abroad opportunities for law students, and I was lucky enough to seize the opportunity twice! During the summer after 1L year, I worked as a legal intern in London by day and studied UK law by evening. On the weekends, my classmates and I took in the sights and sounds of London or took impromptu trips to neighboring countries. For nearly three months, I felt like I really was a…
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The Road Less Traveled: An open letter to my younger self.
By Ms. JD Editor • August 20, 2021 •Ms. JD, Writers in Residence
“Don’t aim to break the glass ceiling; aim to shatter it.” - Matshona Dhliwayo Alana, I am so proud of you. Right now, you are sitting as the co-pilot in your grandfather’s plane with the belief that you can do or be anything. You are unapologetically yourself. You aren't afraid to walk into any room or face any challenge against all odds. You don’t let anyone define who you are or what you are supposed to be. You are the type of girl to join the tee-ball team and stay in the outfield picking flowers because that’s what you want…Connect with us
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