How to Get an Inhouse Legal Job on Wall Street: One General Counsel Reveals a Wall Street Insider s Hiring Secrets for Biglaw Associates

Thomas Darby-Jones

ISBN 10: 152073087X / ISBN 13: 9781520730875

Published by Independently published, 2017

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31 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.08 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Get an Inhouse Legal Job on Wall Street: One General Counsel Reveals a Wall Street Insider s Hiring Secrets for Biglaw Associates
• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 152073087X
• ISBN 13: 9781520730875
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

So you want to go inhouse? Many biglaw associates are intrigued by the notion of going to the inhouse legal team of a corporate. And let me tell you, it's true. It's a good gig. I am a general counsel for a line of business at a Wall Street financial institution. I would never go back to private practice. I meet so many stellar candidates who would do fantastically well if they came inhouse, but I see them continue to trod along the biglaw associate life. I finally had to reveal the secrets as to why no better opportunity is coming their way (except maybe from random headhunter calls here and there). This book shows you exactly how to land an inhouse legal job. Instead of trawling through the internet news during your daily sandwich and drink at lunch, spend your lunch reading this book. It will open your eyes to a whole new world of how we hire for inhouse on Wall Street. It's not just luck or substance that wins. It's beating the system. Because the system is fixed. So please allow me show you how to make it work in your favor. TABLE OF CONTENTS -Foreward -Introduction -Part I – Wall Street's Inhouse Legal Hiring is Fixed. Like a Fixed Sporting Event, the Outcome is Pre-Determined. Learn How It Works In Order To Beat the System -Chapter 1. Our dirty little secret: our public job listings are fake. It is pre-ordained who we are going to hire a. Don’t bother responding to a job listing. We post a job listing AFTER we have already decided who to hire b. Why we still go through the charade Chapter 2. Implement this 3-step plan and become the pre-ordained hire a. Step 1 – make a wish list b. Step 2 – take a hard look at your law firm, the partner you work for and yourself c. Step 3 – get on my hiring radar: the secret to standing out from all the other fantastic biglaw associates out there Chapter 3. This job is now yours to lose and you don’t even know it yet Part II – You Still Have to Come in and Interview. Here's How to Absolutely Crush the Interviews Round by Round Chapter 4. You will interview with me first. I am setting you up for success. I wouldn’t set you up for failure. Use me as your interview cheat-sheet Chapter 5. Interviewing with the other stakeholders in your selection process a. The rest of the inhouse legal team b. Front office business side c. Compliance d. Human Resources e. Random other stakeholders in a financial institution Chapter 6. “I want to be closer to the business side” and other canned answers for inhouse legal interview questions Chapter 7. References: how to deal with good ones and bad ones Chapter 8. Conclusion