The Insider's Guide to Getting a Big Firm Job: What Every Law Student Should Know about Interviewing

The primary goal of most law students is to get a job upon graduation. While law school teaches many things, how to get a law job is not one of them. Thousands of law students thus graduate each year without a job, without any prospects, and without the faintest idea how to land their first job with a law firm. In law school, however, the competition for top jobs is intense - and the special needs of law firm recruiters are unknown to law students. This book is an insider's look at the secrets of landing a dream law firm job.

Erika Finn earned her law degree from the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review. During law school, she was offered summer associate positions at 19 large law firms, and worked at New York-based Proskauer Rose LLP in their Los Angeles office. Jessica Olmon earned her law degree from the Ohio State University and started her practice as an associate at Fulbright & Jaworski in Los Angeles. She interviewed law students for her firm and offers an insider's viewpoint into the interviewing process at one of the largest law firms in the world.