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Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms
Find the most detailed profiles of law firms, from firm overviews, to the scoop on getting hired, to insider insights on the real environment at law firms - straight from the associates themselves.
Vault Guide to Labor & Employment Law Careers
Employment law offers opportunities ranging from working in law firms to working "in-house" at company's as employment counsel, to government work.
Vault Guide to Government and Non-Profit Legal Employers
From the DOJ and FBI to the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, read more than 50 profiles of top legal employers - including internship, compensation and other hiring information.
Vault Guide to Tax Law Careers
The complex and ever-changing nature of tax law has spawned an entire industry for professionals who have mastered it, including attorneys who work for a wide variety of employers, including law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and the U.S. government. This Vault guide will bring you the inside scoop on these careers.
View from the Top: Q&A with Law Firm Leaders
Every would-be law student, young attorney or law student longs for a mentor to help them plot the road ahead. In this new guide, Vault provides not just one mentor but close to 100!
Vault Guide to Corporate Law Careers
Take an inside look at the major career paths in corporate law, including work at law firms, in-house at corporations, for the government and as a contract attorney. With tips on how to prepare for a corporate law career while in school, and real life �days in the life� of corporate attorneys.
Vault Guide to Litigation Law Careers
Find out everything you need to know about litigation careers, including work at a firm, as a district attorney, a public defender and more. Includes an inside look at the skills needed to be a topnotch litigator.
Vault Guide to Bankruptcy Law Careers
Not everyone has difficulty finding work in a down economy. Read about bankruptcy law careers - a position that requires broad expertise.
Vault Guide Law Resumes
This guide brings you expert tips for writing a killer law resume, with a couple of resume makeovers so you can see common mistakes, and more than 30 top sample resumes.
Vault Guide to Schmoozing
These days, law students who know how to schmooze get the best jobs. Learn to put personal contacts to good career use with Vault's Guide to Schmoozing.
Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms
Law students' other major alternative career path is consulting. The real scoop on consulting careers with helpful career tips and skills.
Vault Guide to the Case Interview
If you want to join a consulting firm, you have to face the case interviews. Ace them with the help of this crucial guide.
Vault Career Guide to Investment Banking
A great number of law students consider investment banking. Want to tackle the investment banking industry - but don't know where to start? You'll know banking cold for your interviews after reading this guide.
The Vault 100
Find out which firm is the most prestigious in Vault's 2007 list of the top 100 law firms.
Read our ranking methodology. Best 20 Law Firms To Work For
Care more about quality of life than reputation? This is your key resource. Read it here.
Read our Best 20 methodology. Law Firm Q&A
Let featured law firms tell you why working for them might be the perfect fit for you. Get info on benefits, firm culture, recruiting process and more. Diversity Program Profiles
Get the inside scoop on diversity programs at 150+ top law firms. With Vault’s Diversity Program Profiles, get
Statistics on the number of minority, women and GLBT attorneys at each level (associate, non-equity partner, partner)
Information on women, minority and GLBT attorneys heading practice areas or offices at each firm
Firm descriptions of initiatives for diversity recruiting and mentoring
Pro Bono Program Profiles
Service to clients who cannot afford legal counsel has always been an ethical imperative of lawyers. Vault brings you profiles of pro bono programs at top law firms. Read info on recent pro bono clients, special training and supervision for pro bono cases, typical pro bono assignments and more!
Departmental rankings
Which firms have the top departments? Associates rank 'em for you.
Get advice and information and network with other job seekers on the largest online career community with Vault's Electronic Watercooler - called a "killer app" by the New York Times.
This Online Career Library is for the sole use of George Washington University Law School current students, faculty and staff. Use by any other individuals or organizations, including without limitation students or alumni of any other departments of this university, is unlawful. Any other use constitutes copyright infringement and theft of services. Any unauthorized use or distribution will be traced and may result in civil and criminal liability.
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