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1 min read 2021-12-07 20:00:10

Podcast Episode 320: Goals for Your 1L Summer Job (w/Sadie Jones)

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re chatting with ex-BigLaw recruiter Sadie Jones about some goals for your 1L summer

1 min read 2021-11-03 21:52:13

Short answer: From you. So let’s turn it into a positive. It is that time of year, when 1Ls are starting to think about and explore job

1 min read 2021-10-31 17:45:37

Boomer retirements ought to be a boon for law school clinics. The Hidden Brain podcast episode Cultivating Your Purpose begins with an effective

1 min read 2021-09-05 18:44:24

Millennials were already skeptical of the law firm model. Then the pandemic hit, reinforcing the legal profession’s worst tendencies. A walk

1 min read 2021-08-30 07:43:15

Pretty much everything was a counterintuitive curveball. In April of 2006, more than 15 years ago, I wrote a memo to file that would go on to exert

1 min read 2021-07-27 19:00:43

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we have former BigLaw recruiter Sadie Jones back with us to talk about the basics of

1 min read 2021-07-11 17:56:45

Yes. The Cravath system. The case method. And much more. Here’s the technical definition of the “Lindy effect“: The robustness of an idea or

1 min read 2021-07-08 01:17:00

A slice is reserved for everyone who predicts the future of law. Today is the debut of Anusia Gillespie’s monthly Q&A column on NewLaw

1 min read 2021-06-29 19:00:22

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re excited to have ex-BigLaw recruiter Sadie Jones with us to talk about what matters in

1 min read 2021-06-28 00:53:43

Diversity is indeed associated with higher law firm profits. To accept this fact, the profession needs to understand why. Figure 1 above reports

1 min read 2021-06-15 19:00:05

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re discussing the ins and outs of the 3L job market with our guest Sadie Jones. We take

18 min read 2021-04-08 16:42:44

Over the past year, many of us have said “I guess all law firms are virtual law firms now.” While that may technically be true, there are many

1 min read 2021-03-30 19:00:52

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re talking with ex-BigLaw recruiter Sadie Jones about what you can learn from a summer

1 min read 2021-03-25 23:30:19

Count me among the skeptics. We are all familiar with the allegations that CEOs of publicly traded companies manipulating their earnings from

2 min read 2021-02-11 19:30:10

‘Cut your own path it’s ok to be defiant… BigLaw is big, but for change we need giants’ A US law firm has come up with a unique way of