Career Resources Guide

• Department of Career Services at the Charleston School of Law
  
• Finding a Job
• Choosing the Right Job
  
• The Job Search
  
• Networking
  
• Researching Employers
• Legal Internships
  
• Internships
  
• Directories
  
• Online Career Resources
• Specific to Jobs in the Law
  
• General Job Search Sites
  
• ABA Career Center
  
• Getting the Job
• Resumes
  
• Etiquette
  
• Job Interviews
  
• The Business of Law
• Law Practice Management
  
• Business Practices
  
• The Practice of Law
  
• Practice Basics
• Career Success
  
• Alternative Views of the Profession
  
• Leadership
  
• Millennials
  
• Periodicals
  
• Working with Other Lawyers
  
• Job Satisfaction and Alternative Careers
• Changing Jobs
  
• Non Lawyers in Legal Jobs
  
• Alternative Careers
  
• Job Satisfaction
  
• Specific Practice Areas
• Working for the Government
  
• For the Public Good
  
• Practice Concentrations
  
• Practice Areas Predicted to Expand
  
• International Opportunities
  
• Judicial Clerkships
  
• What to Expect After the JD
• Advice for Landing Your First Job
  
• After the JD
  
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  
• Women and Minorities
  
• Women and Minorities in the Law
  

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  Careers in National Security by Lauren Bean
  KF4850 .C37 2008
  
  
• The Congressional Internship Book by Career Education Institutes
  Car. Serv. JK1084 .C63
  
  
• FedLaw: Internships with Federal Legal Agencies by Career Education Institutes
  Car. Serv. LC1072.I58 F42
  
  
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  Landing a Federal Legal Job: Finding Success in the U.S. Government Job Market
  by Richard L. Hermann         
  KF299.G6 H47 2011
  
  

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  Ten Steps to a Federal Job: Navigating the Federal Job System, Writing Federal Resumes, KSAs, and Cover Letters with a Mission by Kathryn Kraemer Troutman
  Car. Serv. JK716 .T75 2002
  
  

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  Behind the Bench: The Guide to Judicial Clerkships by Debra M. Strauss
  Car. Serv. KF8771 .S77 2002

• Judicial Clerkships in Brief
  Car. Serv.
  

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  Judicial Clerkships: A Practical Guide by Mary L. Dunnewold
  KF8807 .D86 2010

• OSCAR, the central online resource for federal law clerk and appellate staff attorney hiring. Note that this site is also accessible through Symplicity, maintained by the Charleston School of Law Department of Career Services. Note also that although the Federal Clerk Hiring Plan has been discontinued, and each judge now controls their own hiring practices, the best hiring practices developed by the Oscar working group remain as resources.
  

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  Building Your Practice with Pro Bono for Lawyers by Nelson P. Miller
  KF366 .M55 2012

• Green Law: Legal Internships with Public Interest Environmental Organizations by Career Education Institutes
  Car. Serv. LC1072.I58 G74
   
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  The Great Firm Escape: Harvard Law School's Guide to Breaking Out of Private Practice and Into Public Service by Stacy DeBroff
  Car. Serv. KF299.P8 G74 2000
   
• Law School Guide to Public Interest Careers by NALP, the Association for Legal Career Professionals
  KF299.P8 L39 2007
   
• Lawful Pursuit: Careers in Public Interest Law by Ronald Fox
  Car. Serv. KF299.P8 F69 1995
   
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  Lawyering from the Heart by Deborah Kenn
  KF299.P8 K46 2009
   
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  Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession, Robert Cranfield, ed.
  KF299.P8 P74 2009
   
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  Public Interest Lawyering: A Contemporary Perspective by Alan Chen
  KF299.P8 C48 2013
   
• Public Sector and Public Interest Attorney Salary Report by NALP
  Car. Serv. KF299.P8 P82 2008
   
• Public Sector/Public Internships: Career Development Opportunities for All Law Students
  Car. Serv. 
   
• Vault Guide to the Top Government and Nonprofit Legal Employers
  Car. Serv. KF299.G6L47

• International Opportunities Resource Guide by National Association for Law Placement
  Car. Serv. K115 .I58 1999

Richard Hermann, author of several ABA-published books on finding and keeping legal jobs, predicted in June of 2011 that the following practice areas would be expanding:

• Banking & finance law and regulation
• Government & public policy
• Securities law & regulation
• Technology and new media
• Energy & infrastructure
• Health law & insurance regulation
• Doing business in China
• Intellectual property
• Private equity
• Compliance
   
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  Entrepreneurial Practice: Enterprise Skills for Lawyers Serving Emerging Client Populations by Nelson P. Miller
  KF300 .M554 2012