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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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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