The Legal Job Interview: Winning the Law-Related Job in Today's Market

by Clifford R. Ennico

The all time best-selling guide to interviewing for a job as a lawyer, paralegal or other member of the legal profession. Chapters contain "real world" advice on finding job opportunities, preparing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963283553
• ISBN13: 9780963283559
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Biennix Corporation
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

very good!

This is a book that helps handle real situations and problems with real (and effective!) solutions. The most important thing to say about Ennico's tips is that they are effective: I bought this book before a round of 4 interviews and I got 4 offers! (It's not a big scale I know, but 100% success is the first time in my life..). Funnily, the book solved me also the problem of how to make a choice between different offers :) I think that the reason of this success is one: this book made me considering issues and aspects of the job seeking process I've never taken care (or even had consciousness) before. I am an Italian lawyer and I was seeking a lateral to a senior associate role in a new firm. There are no books focused on legal job interviews in Italian, and before buying this one I feared that cultural differences in the hiring process between US end Europe might render the insight of the book less useful, but that was NOT the case; Ennico's tips are really "worldwide" useful! This is why I feeled I had to put my review (sorry for my bad English sytntax but I am Italian...).

Buy this book now!

Do us both a favor. Buy this book now! This is a favor to you because I guarantee it will, at a minimum, materially improve your chances of getting that critical legal job you need in this difficult economic climate. Your purchase of this book is a favor for me because I know that if you purchase it, I have helped someone who is in a similar situation to where I was prior to my purchasing the book. And that's a good feeling. Prior to devouring this eminently readable book, I believed that the legal interview process was akin to a random one. In other words, my perspective as to whether I would get the offer and how I did in the interview seemed to have little relationship to whether I got the job. Sometimes I was sure I was a smash hit and no offer came. Other times I would berate myself after an interview and I would get a great offer. This book debunks the notion that the process is substantially random. It is not. It's just that most candidates are clueless. The author started his legal career in a very prestigious Wall Street law firm and has interviewed scores of candidates similarly situated to yourself. And his advice and conclusions are a stunning revelation that almost EVERYTHING you have been told about how to conduct yourself in a legal interview is false. Interviewing for a legal position is RADICALLY different than 95% of all other job interview contexts. For example, the author proves how the most important rule in a legal interview is to SAY AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE! Keep your mouth shut! One key reason for this is that most lawyers who will interview you are NOT trained interviewers, so they instead bring an extremely risk averse approach to interviewing candidates. The primary goal of most attorneys interviewing you for a position is to NOT make a big mistake and recommend hiring someone who will not work out for the firm. Therefore they revert to choosing low-risk, bland candidates over polished "salesmen" who continually try to showcase their talents. The lawyer interviewing you is your ADVERSARY and will seize upon ANY slight mistake you might make during your incessant self-promotion to strike you from the pool. Your resume and your connections got you in the door. Let them speak for themselves. Never oversell yourself. Lawyers can smell a smarmy salesman a mile away and they generally reject them. It's MUCH easier to reject a candidate than to choose one. Simply discuss the facts and the options between you and the interviewer as if you were in court calmly discussing the facts of a legal case to see if you are a good fit with the firm. My review of this book unfortunately falls short in conveying what a life changing experience reading it was for me. Suffice it to say I now have the quiet, calm and deep confidence I need to ace most interviews. And in the process the author has managed to insert several hilarious anecdotes to illuminate his points succinctly. And when you're looking for a new j