These simple steps can improve the effectiveness of your office while reducing the paper.
New tools can help students build a strategic online presence as well as assisting in their job searches.
How are NALP members using this valuable social media tool? Here are some examples, along with a series of step-by-step tips for enhancing your LinkedIn profile.
LinkedIn's "Relationship tab" is a powerful tool for managing your professional relationships. Here are a few tips to get you started.
By harnessing AI tech tools, we can reclaim more control over our daily lives, carving out precious moments to invest in what truly matters.
This article explores how AI can revolutionize performance reviews by uncovering growth opportunities while reshaping workplace communication through tone interpretation and emotional response management.
As AI reshapes legal education and the professional landscape of the legal field, law school CSOs have begun to utilize AI in their daily work and student programming.
Streamline your professional and personal life with these apps.
Findings from the task force charged with exploring talent acquisition research, to provide NALP members to experiment with innovation in the recruiting process, and particularly to seek innovations that both increase the period of engagement between law students and potential employers, and use technology in innovative ways.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a major focus of this year’s International Legal Technology Association’s annual conference.
A new division set up at the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) called the Office of Data Governance and Analysis. The work this office is producing, and the way they are producing it will provide many new resources from which we can learn more about trends in legal organizations management.
Suited Co-Founder and CEO Matthew Spencer explains how law firms can use artificial intelligence to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in recruiting and hiring.
Our career services counterparts in undergraduate institutions are living our future now. Following their guidance, change, collaboration, communication, and customization are going to be our keys to a successful future.
Facebook and LinkedIn offer some great starting points for CSOs to enhance their connections with alumni. Here are some tips.
Past NALP President Gina Sauer, who is President of Attavita, shares seven tips for virtual presentations in the legal profession, including using signposts and being patient with Q&A sessions.
Several bar associations include mentoring as part of the certification process, and mentoring programs support law students, summer clerks, and new associates on the way to becoming a partner at a firm. How can mentoring software help to run these programs?
Becoming more tech savvy saves time, reduces frustration, and increases the effectiveness of your office. These tips can help shorten your learning curve.
Whatever the model, it is clear that the solution to long-term access to justice for low-income individuals must be multi-pronged and that it will involve legal technology innovations.
Generative AI is poised to have a profound impact on all facets of the legal profession. Chira Perla examines how law students and legal recruiters might use the technology.
This article highlights ways that career services offices (CSOs) can help students harness the power of generative AI tools and AI-powered applications effectively in their job search, while avoiding common pitfalls.
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These apps can make your professional life easier and help to boost your productivity.
Most employers are not taking full advantage of the ways Symplicity can help them build their brand on campus by featuring their social networking sites, statistics, or culture.
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Implementing a quick self-assessment process can increase the effectiveness of your meetings, as both a manager and a participant, leaving everyone involved more engaged, connected and excited to finish the task at hand.
Apps and programs have been developed and implemented to streamline process management and project management, making processes more efficient, reducing variance and waste, and increasing quality. But the stakes for the legal field are higher than those for ride-sharing or food delivery apps — if technology can improve access to justice for those who have traditionally been left out in the cold, then software engineers will have truly made the world a better place. They are already off to a good start.
Here are some suggestions for guiding students on more professional and more effective use of email.
Being a part of distributed teams working across the country or across the globe can be a challenge. A thoughtful approach to cross-time zone work and the tools that facilitate it can turn these challenges into opportunities.
Even those alumni who are already on LinkedIn may lack an understanding of the site's purpose and its value in a job search. This article will help career advisors discuss effective use of LinkedIn with alumni.
NALP Director of Information Technology and Electronic Information Resources Lisa Quirk explores how technology has helped shape several of the key benefits offered to NALP members over the course of 50 years as an association.
As you consider your own work-related resolutions, use these tips to examine how technology can increase your efficiency in the workplace.
NALP President Tony Waller considers the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on NALP members and their constituents.
Many law school CSOs are trying to catch up to AI technology, independently working on guidelines and best practices for law students utilizing AI when generating application documents.
This simple app is helping Canadian CSOs publicize programs more easily and effectively.
The NALP Board and the Transforming Talent Acquisition Task Force have experimented with pilot programs that leverage technology in the recruiting process.
This article aims to help educate law school career services professionals regarding student usage of AI in the legal job search process and offers some practical insights.
Most students in law school today know all about using the newest technology to reach their friends, but they don't always know how to use it appropriately to create a professional persona.
What should a career counselor tell students to do and what pitfalls should they avoid to make their online networking easier and more effective?
This article highlights several models illustrating how technology is being taught in law schools, potential roles for career development professionals in each, and access to justice connections.
NALP Executive Director James G. Leipold reviews some of the trends that emerged in 2020 following the COVID-19 outbreak in March, including virtual work environments, struggles to fight racial inequality, and changes to OCI.
Southwestern Law School’s Megan Evanich shares four reasons why law schools, legal employers, and recruiters should consider keeping virtual interviews in place permanently moving forward.
Online tools may not replace face-to-face contact, but here's an example of how they can significantly enhance clinical placement experiences.
Legal careers relating to data collection and privacy are on the rise. For law students and lawyers, this increase provides an opportunity in terms of both traditional attorney and JD Advantage careers. Industry research shows that while data privacy is still a relatively new field, 35% of privacy officers who came to their work from another field came from a legal background. The same industry research shows that hiring and salaries are on the rise.
Here are 10 time management and organization “hacks,” tips, or shortcuts to make life just a little bit easier. While these are specific to Microsoft Outlook, some can be adapted to other email programs.
The key to using technology to enhance your alumni program is to find which platform and which tools are the best fit for your firm and your alumni program.
This article examines how firms can maximize their AI investments while ensuring associates also gain experience with essential legal tasks. By reinforcing the human skills of critical thinking, sound judgment, creativity, and contextual understanding of the law, strategically hiring AI-savvy associates, and applying best practices, law firms can use AI to drive client value and associate development.
As the school year kicks off, career services professionals are considering how best to support law students in the use of social media. Here are some suggestions guided by the NALP Principles and Standards.
You've decided you want to start "getting social" but don't know where to start. This article provides a checklist of key decisions that will help you start tweeting and sharing in no time.
Your website is often a student's first introduction to your organization. Is it grabbing and retaining their interest?
Law school and law firm career professionals, students, and lawyers must know the rules of the road in the complex and changing digital frontier.
So you've decided to switch to new software. Now what? Here are some tips for ensuring that the transition goes smoothly.
What do candidates and employers want when it comes to using social media in legal recruiting?
Business and lawyer coach Alay Yajnik on how law firms can use coaching to drive performance, increase retention, and attract top talent.
LSU Paul M. Herbert Law Center’s Gwendolyn Ferrell and Holland & Knight’s Precillia Soares provide an update on the efforts of NALP’s Knowledge Management & Resource Implementation Advisory Group.
One of the collateral developments of the legal ops movement is that it is dissolving the lawyer/nonlawyer distinction when it comes to solving legal problems.
If economic pressures drive the current reshaping of the legal market, technology undergirds and facilitates much of the disruption facing law firms.
UCalgary Law’s Maryanne Forrayi shares insights about how to enhance student success learned from the school’s Law Innovation Internship Program that launched in summer 2021.
As the recruiting market and legal industry continue to change dramatically, NALP is working on enhancements to the NALP Directory of Legal Employers that will better meet the needs of members, law students, graduates, and job candidates.
AI is no longer optional; it is essential to the business of law — changing how lawyers practice, how firms create value, and, ultimately, how many lawyers they need and what kinds of expertise they must have.
The Bump app lets you share information by simply tapping two devices together. You can share contact information, files, photos, videos, and more.
Here are some of the ways law students and lawyers can use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ to build their brand during a job search.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool that law students and lawyers can use to their advantage.
Summit Law Group’s J. Chad Mitchell and Chicago-Kent College of Law student McKay Mitchell review the Jack Newton book, The Client Centered Law Firm.
Dechert’s Nicole Oddo Smith shares tips about what to do before, and when, technology inevitably fails during one of your legal programs.
Innovation is happening in the legal profession, albeit slowly.
As more and more lawyers and law students flock to Twitter, there are more conversations among members of the legal industry taking place on Twitter. Law school career professionals can follow these conversations and advise law students on how to capitalize on these interactions. To help you get started in following or engaging in the conversations, here are 10 hashtags frequently used by the legal profession.
