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Susan Gainen

Pursuing an Alternative Legal Career

January 26, 2010

If your vision of an alternative career is leaving private practice for a corporate job, your path will look like a traditional job search: revising documents, networking and information interviewing, lining up references, and a good supply of patience. You might find job postings, and you may be able to use a headhunter.
Searching for a [...]

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Lawyerist Contributor: Susan Gainen

January 23, 2010

I am delighted to become the newest Lawyerist blogger, and I bring the perspective of an enthusiastic Boomer who has had more than her share of careers and career paths.
I have been an administrative secretary and sales rep for a food broker, car sales rep and finance and insurance manager, typesetter (on stone-age and space-age [...]

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Career Services Professionals Do Their Best

January 18, 2010

In “Where Law School Career Services Fail (and Some Fixes),” Aaron mixes excellent suggestions with some incorrect assumptions. I wish that his transformative goals for law schools could be readily achieved, that his assumptions were correct and workable, and that the powers he ascribes to career offices were real.

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