back to vault.com

Vault Blog

Sign Up for Vault e-news

Vault's weekly Career Update for tips and tools to help you find and manage your ideal career.

Contributor Network

Rachel Marx Boufford

Rachel is Vault’s law editor, and covers news and career advice relating to the legal industry on Vault’s Law Blog. Rachel has a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Tufts University. Prior to joining Vault, she worked as a litigation associate at a large New York law firm.

Contact Rachel​ Here >>

Posts by this author

Register Now for the Vault/MCCA Legal Diversity Career Fair!

Published: Thursday, May 30, 2013

Registration is now open for the eighth annual Legal Diversity Career Fair, sponsored by Vault and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). The Fair, which will be held on Friday, August 2nd, 2013, in Washington, DC, is an opportunity for law [...] Read More >>

Insider Advice for Law Students and Laterals

Published: Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Next month, Vault will release its annual Top 100 Law Firm rankings. Nearly 17,000 associates from across the country participated in our survey this year, rating their own firms on quality of life issues and rating other firms on their overall prestige [...] Read More >>

Why You Need a Sponsor at Work

Published: Thursday, April 18, 2013

You’ve heard a lot about mentoring, and your company may even have a formal mentoring program that matches junior employees with more senior management. In a typical mentoring relationship, mentees are free to ask their mentors questions about work policies, [...] Read More >>

Vault's New Guide to Legal Practice Areas

Published: Wednesday, April 10, 2013

What does a securities litigator do all day? Which courses are recommended for budding private equity attorneys? What does it actually mean to be an “international lawyer”? Unfortunately, a traditional law school curriculum doesn’t do much to help students [...] Read More >>

Why Are Women Lawyers Unhappy?

Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013

March is Women’s History Month (and, it seems, Sheryl Sandberg month—at least this year). Vault took a look back at our most recent Associate Survey, in which nearly 17,000 associates at law firms from across the country rated their firms in areas such [...] Read More >>

Love and Law: 51% of Lawyers Polled Have Had an Office Affair

Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Who says the law isn’t sexy? In Vault’s annual Office Romance survey, 51% of attorneys reported that they had been part of an office romance. While this number pales in comparison to the 75% of energy sector employees who have gotten frisky with a co-worker, [...] Read More >>

Smile on the Job—or Else

Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Sandwich chain Pret A Manger has been making headlines recently for a rather unique requirement—that its employees “create a sense of fun” on the job. The London-based chain, which also has outposts in New York, DC, Chicago and Boston, insists that its [...] Read More >>

Check out Vault’s 2013 Pro Bono Guide!

Published: Thursday, February 07, 2013

The 2013 edition of the Vault Guide to Law Firm Pro Bono Programs is now available! The guide features detailed information about the pro bono work that 126 top law firms across the country have engaged in over the past few years. In many ways, the firms [...] Read More >>

Jump Start Your Career with MOOCs

Published: Monday, January 14, 2013

You know LOL, BRB and even YOLO, but have you heard of MOOCs? A MOOC, or massive open online course, is an online class characterized by its open enrollment policies and large scale. Unlike most traditional online courses, MOOCs are free of charge and [...] Read More >>

Quick! Get into Harvard Law School While You Can!

Published: Thursday, December 06, 2012

Yesterday, Professor Jonathan D. Glater of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, wrote in the New York Times that right now is, in fact, a great time for you to apply to law school. Not because the economy is on the upswing or because legal [...] Read More >>

Currently Viewing page 1 out of 4

Contact Rachel Marx Boufford


* indicates required field

connect with us