Checking In – Reflection on Maker’s vs. Manager’s Schedule

Hi Everyone!  It’s been quite a few days since I’ve updated here.  After reading Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule, I realized that I’ve been working under a manager’s schedule when the growth of this site requires me to follow a maker’s schedule or at least come up with a better compromise. First, let me summarize how the article explains the two schedule types.  A manager’s schedule breaks up the day into hourly chunks or intervals (i.e., daily...

Tags: bluebooking, e-books, maker's schedule, manager's schedule, productivity, time management
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Alternative Listings at Am Law 200 Firms

I was on a roll so I decided to update the Am Law 200 jobs. Who knows, maybe if I keep it up, I’ll update the lists every other week? I will post the updated Am Law 200 job listings in the next post (members-only, folks but see: this good news!). In the meantime, I wanted to point out a few alternative job listings that caught my eye: Barnes & Thornburg seeks an employment law staff attorney. Dykema seeks a Director of Marketing. Fox Rothschild seeks a Legal Research Training Coordinator. Gardere...

Tags: Am Law 200, Barnes & Thornburg, contract-to-perm ISDA attorney, Director of Attorney Development, Director of Human Resources, Director of Marketing, Dykema, employment staff attorney, Fox Rothschild, Gardere Wynne, Honigman Miller, Jackson Lewis, job listings, Kasowitz, Kelley Drye, Lateral Listings, lateral positions, Lathrop & Gage, Legal Research Training Coordinator, Lowenstein Sandler, McKenna Long, Robbins Kaplan, senior brief writer, Staff Attorney, staff attorneys, Stoel Rives
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Two Weeks: Membership Open

Now that I worked out a few glitches, I’m also going to extend free membership to anyone who signs up for my newsletter on or before March 1, 2010 at 12:01 am EST. After you sign up for the newsletter, you will receive an e-mail with your username and password within 24 hours. It will come from WordPress with [RecruiterEsq] in the subject line. Finally, anyone who signed up for the newsletter after membership was closed last time will also receive free membership to the website.

Tags: membership, newsletter
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Viewing Am Law 100 Listings As Google Doc

I sent out this e-mail last night to all site members. I’d also like to post it here as a general announcement. Hi! This is the Google document for the Am Law 100 job listings that I posted yesterday on the site. Remember, if you’d like to sort by practice area or location, view it in the Google doc as a list. (Under View, pick List view.) Once it’s in list view, click on the link to sort how you’d like. From now on, I will automatically give you access to the Google...

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Firms Take Recruiting In-House and Other Am Law Job Observations

I love updating the Am Law job listings. You can really see the industry through the eyes of how its recruiting.  I will publish the list in my next post but I’d like to note some brief observations here. (Remember, the list is accessible by members-only whereas this post is public.) Observation #1:  Firms Get Smart About If/When to Use Search Firm Although I don’t note it on the list, many of the firms explicitly state that they are not accepting resumes from search firms for XYZ...

Tags: Akin Gump, Am Law, Am Law job listing, Am Law jobs, BigLaw hiring, contract attorney, contract attorney jobs, Director of Knowledge Management, Diversity Coordinator, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, Greenberg Traurig, Hunton, Kilpatrick Stockton, King & Spalding, legal search firm, Manager of the New York Library, Morgan Lewis, O'Melveny, part-time attorney, recruiter, Reed Smith, Ropes & Gray, Staff Attorney
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[Product Review] Freshbooks

Disclaimer: I use FreshBooks. A lot.1 Based on my use, these are my opinions and this is my endorsement.  While I’d like for you to sign up using my affiliate page (at not cost to you!), I’d like even more if you trusted my recommendation to go check it out. Freshbooks proclaims on its website that it’s: Then it goes on to say, “Send, track and collect payments quickly. Great for teams, freelancers and service providers.” Why law firms, specifically, should use...

Tags: billing, Freshbooks, iPhone app, law firm accounting, product review, SAAS, time tracking, web based
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Twitter Lists: Legal Job Market

Enough has been said about using Twitter to find a job that I don’t feel the need to repeat it here.  For background reading and helpful tips targeted for a job search in the legal industry, I’d recommend Amanda Ellis’s newsletter from September, 2009 (Attorneys Finding Jobs on Twitter).  She explains three ways in which attorneys can integrate Twitter into their job search. Instead, I’d like to use this example – conducting a job search on Twitter – as a way...

Tags: Amanda Ellis, job search, Legal Job Market, Listorious, RSS, tips, tools, twitter, Twitter Lists
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