For several years now, the focus of law school admissions offices has been trending more and more toward employability. What does this mean for law school admissions strategy?
Employers and clients value a lawyer who can succinctly and informally explain a legal issue or communicate effectively by email, and those are skills that (probably) will not be covered in your first year of law school.
You have probably heard before that networking is crucial in this day and age. The lawyers who have the most success in law firms are the “rainmakers,” those who bring in new clients and new business, and the lawyers who have the most success finding new clients are also masterful networkers.
Law school, you may have heard, trains you to “think like a lawyer.” What does it mean to think like a lawyer?
Too few applicants know this — this is actually what starting salaries look like for those right out of law school.
Every ladder has a first step. Enjoy!
In a sense, this is a blog post 25 years in the making.
Every year at the end of the summer, law schools invite law firms to their campuses to interview students for jobs.
We've reached out to a number of friends at law schools and firms and companies to see what things applicants did that made them grouchy.
In this podcast, Mike Spivey takes questions from Reddit!
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Happy holidays from all of us at Spivey Consulting Group!
In this newest episode of our podcast, Mike Spivey talks about how to stay calm in the law school admissions process.
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In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses the phenomenon in law school admissions known as "yield protection," and explains steps you can take to prevent being waitlisted as a result of it.
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As promised in the podcast, here are some resources for how to choose which law school to attend:
In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses some of the most commonly held misconceptions about the law school admissions process, and how understanding them can help you get admitted.
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For today's podcast, a little something different — some advice on resiliency in the face of watching others succeed in the ways you'd like to be succeeding.
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In this podcast, Mike answers a few questions from Reddit.
You can listen to this podcast below, or on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.
