We've been getting a lot of emails from nervous job seekers, who we assume are studying for the bar exam, asking if anyone is hiring.The following job-seeking advice editorial comes from WWL's professional etiquette editor:
1) if you're studying for the bar, focus on the bar exam and drinking and/or praying your way through it;
2) check out the Boyd School career services postings, craigslist legal jobs and the billboard Plaintiff's firms for work [may not lead to the best job in Vegas, but it's better than working at Denny's];
3) open up a solo practice and develop a niche area of practice (family law might work--people won't stop getting divorced in Nevada);
4) Alverson Taylor will be hiring in 3-6 months when it's current crop of new associates have escaped;
5) look to smaller construction defect and bankruptcy firms. They seem to still have a solid book of business;
6) network every day and night and inform everyone you know that you're still looking for work;
7) maybe Denny's is hiring. It beats being unemployed.
A waiter at the Denny's underneath the Stratosphere told me he works evenings at the Wynn and makes 70K a year and just bought a home in Summerlin. So, maybe it isn't that bad a plan.
ReplyDeleteTelling law school grads to open up their own shop right out of law school. Has anyone ever actually done that and succeeded?
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