Wednesday March 22, 2023

The Death Penalty Thirty Seven Years Later

In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled capital punishment was both cruel and unusual, especially due to some states’ “capricious and arbitrary” ways of employing the death penalty. The Court ruled race placed too large a role in determining who lived or died. It didn’t stop there, however. The Court recommended new legislation be instituted […]

New Practices Aren’t Necessarily Better Practices

Let’s face it, many employers have become creative in their efforts to survive the recession. While many of these creative efforts have proven to benefit both the employer and his employees, there are those that aren’t without risk. One of these tactics is the practice of laying off full time employees and then bringing them […]

Doing SWOT Analysis for Career Planning and Advancement

What is SWOT Analysis? SWOT analysis is a strategic planning model, very useful for those who are seeking changes in their career or for bringing about alterations in one’s own personal life. By analyzing your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, you can achieve new heights in your career. This analysis is basically introspection into the […]

Why should you be an Efficient Worker?

Whether you are an entrepreneur or a service holder, in order to prosper both in terms of a business or a service, what is primarily important is an extended level of efficiency on your own part. If you have a business of your own you have to give in your best shot on a personal […]

The Truth about Job Boards Is Out

There are many job websites that wait for law jobs to come to them from legal firms. Trusting such sites is not good for one’s career for there is danger lurking in the job boards. These websites do not work for helping law professional find good jobs but their main aim is to earn thousands […]

This Day in History

February 5, 2010 marks a significant day in the legal world. Byron de la Beckwith was convicted on this day in 1994 for the assassination of civil rights leader Medger Evers in 1963. As A. Harrison Barnes points out, the longest murder case in American history was finally concluded in a Jackson, MS courtroom and […]

Representing the Elderly

Elderly abuse is on the rise. Those whose families cannot see to their loved ones around the clock often choose to place them in a nursing home. While the vast majority of nursing facilities are employed by caring and compassionate nurses, nursing aides and physicians, there are those that occasionally find themselves in breaking news […]

Why most applications are not well responded

A lawyer can only be successful in getting an attorney job if he or she performs the process of getting a law job in a systematic way. It is not an easy process rather it is an organized way that needs to be followed by everyone who is willing to get employed in a good […]

The Need for Vision in your Career

As we have all known since our childhood days, a man without an aim in life is like a ship without radar. While growing up we had often heard adults telling us how important it was to decide what we wanted to be when we grew up as that would decide the course of our […]