Resources

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Should You Really Be A Lawyer? includes an extensive appendix (we call it the Tool Kit) with career exploration, professional development and job search resources designed to assist prospective law students, law students and lawyers alike. Here are links to just a few that can help you ...

DecisionBooks – Devoted to helping law students and lawyers with career decision-making and development, this site includes career counseling resources, online self-assessment tools and essays on various career development topics.

Findlaw.com’s Professional Development Center – Helpful reading for lawyers and law students alike, including a collection of articles regarding changing and landing jobs and achieving career satisfaction.

Road Trip Nation — Creative and inspiring resources to help college students explore myriad jobs and careers off the beaten path, and discover their own roads in life. RTN has chapters on college campuses across the country, as well as a nationally released book and an annual documentary series on public television.

ABA Career Counsel — The ABA's central source for online information on finding jobs and enhancing lawyers' careers. Includes career development and job search articles, advice and resources for lawyers, law students and pre-law students.

WetFeet Industry Profiles – Includes overviews of myriad careers and “Real People Profiles” of the folks in them.

Vault Industry Reports – Provides free online summaries of different career fields and “Day in the Life” profiles of those who work in them.

Equal Justice Works – A non-profit supporting public interest-minded law students and sponsoring post-grad public-interest fellowships.

PSLawNet – Features an extensive database of semester, summer and post-graduate public-interest internships, jobs, volunteer opportunities and fellowships nationwide. Includes resources to help law students fund their summer public-interest legal work.

Humanizing Legal Education – Articles, reading lists, discussion boards and other resources for prospective and current law students interested in making law school a kindler, gentler experience.

Findlaw’s Student Resources Channel – Offers law students and prospective law students advice on popular topics such as succeeding at law school academics, managing your legal career and passing the bar exam, as well as discussion forums and message boards for law students to “talk” amongst themselves.

Vault.com’s Law School Channel – For law students and prospective law students, this site contains law school message boards and articles on topics ranging from law school admissions to academics, as well as career advice. Type “law student” at Vault’s search engine and check out the law student discussion.

WetFeet.com’s Legal Channel – Helpful for law students and prospective law students, this site features articles addressing the issues on law school students’ minds, such as academics and career success.

International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers – A non-profit association of lawyers interested in increasing career satisfaction and transforming the nature of conflict resolution in the U.S. through annual conferences, retreats, and other events.

JD Bliss — Unique blog aimed at helping attorneys leverage their JD degrees into satisfying and fulfilling careers, as well as personal growth and happiness. Offers resources related to alternative careers for lawyers and alternative approaches to practicing law so that lawyers can achieve greater career satisfaction.

Renaissance Lawyer Society – A non-profit educational group dedicated to creating new models for legal practice by making the profession less adversarial and more fulfilling through conferences, retreats, and continuing legal education.