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Nail Your Law Job Interview (by Natalie Prescott & Oleg Cross) is one of several interview-preparation resources in the Law Career Services library. The book provides tips, examples, and substantive advice. The authors describe this as the only comprehensive interview guide for lawyers interviewing for any type of a legal job.
Through real-life examples, interviews, and tips from hundreds of prominent legal professionals, judges, recruiters, and firm partners, this book reveals successful interview strategies, insider perspectives, bold moves, and unique challenges facing candidates in a difficult economy. Some topics covered in this book include:
- Questions to ask and not to ask
- Dangerous answers and risky interviewing techniques
- Body language, gap-fillers and sample lists of effective questions
- What to wear, bring and how to do your homework before the interview
- Lunch interview etiquette
- Tips for working with a headhunter and negotiating an offer
- Specific advice for government, clerkship foreign and in-house job applicants
- Interviewing after getting laid-off
Oleg Cross is an attorney with Cooley Godward Kronish LLP in San Diego, California. He holds a JD and LLM from Duke University School of Law. He frequently writes and speaks on various emerging legal issues. In 2007, the San Diego Daily Transcript named Cross one of the city's best lawyers.
Accolades
- 2009 gold medal winner of the Career Book of the Year Award in Foreword Magazine
- 2009 finalist BOYTA Awards from Foreword Book Reviews
- 2010 Career Category finalist in Next Generation Indie Book Awards
"This book goes beyond the cookie-cutter guidance found in most other legal job-hunting publications. Its in-depth research and in-the-know, superb real world advice is particularly helpful to candidates interviewing in an increasingly competitive job market." --Alan Surchin, Esq., Executive Recruiter, Pittleman & Associates
"This book provides candidates with succinct advice, elucidating anecdotes, and inside tips that will allow them to take the guesswork out of the interview process and nail their interviews." --T.J. Duane, Principal, Lateral Link Group LLC
"Nail Your Law Job Interview is well written and wonderfully comprehensive. It provides specific examples, directions, and instructions in every aspect of finding a law job. Although it's written for the new grad, experienced lawyers will benefit from it as well." --Judi Perkins, the founder of Find the Perfect Job
