This section of the ABA site offers weekday tips, weekly job search Q&A, practice area profiles and other career and job search guidance for law students and lawyers.
Decision Books
In the Career Boot Camp section, this website provides self-assessment exercises for law students and lawyers to assist in making informed career choices. Site also provides a list of websites that offer additional online career assessment tools. Click on Law Career Experts to access a career consultant locator.
Leadership Directories
YLS provides students with a subscription to the Leadership Directories, which contain biographical and contact information for people in a variety of government, nonprofit and private sector arenas. Students using a Yale computer or connected to Yale through a VPN can access the directories without a password. Simply click on the "Leadership Online Login" in the upper right corner of the home page. Anyone accessing the site from an outside computer without VPN will be taken to a login screen. In that event, contact CDO at 203-432-1676 for a username and password.
Legal Diversity Initiatives
This section of the NALP website provides information about legal diversity initiatives offered by legal organizations, including law firms and nonprofit organizations.
Lexis
Lexis is available to all Yale law students. Graduates can also access the Lexis Career Library by contacting Lexis at (800) 45-LEXIS for the monthly password. Use Lexis to:
Research background information on any employer. Use the case files and search by employer name or by the names of individual lawyers to see what kinds of cases they have worked on recently. Look in the Legal News file to find out what publications, such as The American Lawyer, The Legal Times, or The National Law Journal, may have said about the employer or any of its lawyers. Search other files for periodicals and publications.
Look for recent federal judicial nominations and/or confirmations when applying for new clerkships. Library: GENFED; File: RECORD; Search: nomination w/3 confirmed and judge w/3 circuit or district.
National Association for Law Placement
NALP's website contains information on job searching, placement statistics, starting salaries and career planning resources. Click Public Service Initiatives to access a pdf version of the 2006-2007 Federal Legal Employment Opportunities Guide. A hard copy of the guide is available in CDO.
National Association of Legal Search Consultants
Website contains a searchable membership directory with contact information for many search firms, access to their newsletter and a recitation of their code of ethics.
Westlaw
Westlaw provides access to numerous directories, including the West Legal Directory, which contains information about both individual attorneys and organizations and is searchable by firm size, location, areas of practice, law school attended and more. Westlaw's Employer Directory contains more detailed information about larger law firms based on survey responses. Search caselaw and news articles through the Westnews directory. Use the U.S. State Material directory to review cases involving a particular attorney or firm. Search the Congressional Record database to learn about recently nominated and confirmed judges. Westlaw is free to students. Graduates can use Westlaw for free for a year after graduation to access Westlaw's job searching databases only.
Women in the Legal Profession: A Keck Center Clearinghouse
This website contains model policies and reports related to alternative work schedules, attrition, careers and compensation, diversity, family issues, gender bias and more. Also contains related links and some statistics about women in the legal profession.