Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

How To Contact The Author

The 1,640-Hour Interview: What Every Summer Clerk Should Know

Keep Your Eye On The Prize: Remember The Goal Of Your Summer Clerkship

Be Aware Of What Employers Are Looking For: The Top Eight Hit List

Things To Do Before You Start Your Clerkship

Handling The Work

Your Thoughts Are Your Exclusive Property. Your Employer Only Cares About What You Say And What You Do. Here's How To Say And Do The Right Things!

Socializing---How To Get To Know People Without Shooting Yourself In The Foot

Handling Secretaries, Recruiting Coordinators, And Anybody Else At The Office Who Isn't A Lawyer

Office Romances: Spend Your Summer Clerkship Getting To Know The Lay Of The Land, Not Getting To Be Known As The Lay Of The Land

You Can't Do Well Without Knowing How You're Doing: How To Get---And Handle---Feedback

What's Really In It For You? All Kinds of Tips for Figuring Out If This Is Really The Place Where You Want To Work

What To Do If You Split Your Summer...

What To Do About Fall On-Campus Interviews If You Leave Your Summer Clerkship Without An Offer In Hand

You Drop The Ball, Or The Ball Is Dropped On You. You Don't Get An Offer From Your Summer Employer. Now What?

ECON 101---The Business Of Law

Understanding The Business of Law

Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Billables, But You Have To Anyway: Including Squeezing Out More Billables Without Spending Even One Extra Minute Working

Getting Off On The Right Foot...Learning The Culture & Getting Organized

Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Career

You Can Get Away With Just About Anything If You Learn How To Play The Game. Learn The Culture!

Getting Organized...And Staying That Way!

The ``People'' Part Of Work. It's Not What You're Like Or How You Feel---It's How You Seem That Counts. How To Come Off As The Person You Want Other People To See

Qualities to Manifest

Perceptions You Should Avoid Creating---And How To Do That!

The Care and Feeding of Supervising Attorneys and Other Muckety-Mucks At Work

Mentors: ``When The Student Is Ready...The Teacher Will Come.''

Tapping Into The Hidden Power Structure: Support Staff Issues

Birds Do It, Bees Do It...The Ins And Outs Of Office Romances

Paying Attention To Things You've Never Paid Attention To Before: E-Mail, The Phone, And The Internet

Social Graces, Or---How Not To Be Seen As A Pig, And How To Make Conversation With Anybody In Any Social Situation

Work Is Work, Your Personal Life Is Your Personal Life...And People At Work Are Colleagues First And Friends Second

How To Crush Research And Writing Assignments

Recognize The Importance Of What You're Doing. You're Not Really Performing Research Assignments. You're Solving Client Problems

Receiving The Assignment: Getting It All, And Getting It Right

Finding What You're Supposed to Find: How To Do The Research

Time To Put Pen To Paper (Or Fingers To Keyboard): How To Write What They Want To Read

Handling Everybody Outside The Office---Clients, Opposing Counsel, Judges, Court Personnel...and the Media

Handling Clients

Advice For Everybody Who Spends Time In Court, Whether You Represent The United States, ``The People,'' The State, Or Clients

Never Air Your Dirty Laundry In The Media!

When Your Boss Is A Judge: Handling Judicial Clerkships

The Judge's World, And How You Fit Into It

The Law Clerk's Bible---The One Book You Have To Have!

Research And Writing Tips

You've Got A Special Job---With Special Responsibilities

Dealing With Jerks, Screamers, And Other Dwellers Of The Nether Anatomy

Prepare Yourself For The ``Real World Of Jerks.''

What You Can Do About Working For A Jerk, And Why ``Yeah, Well, You Can Kiss My Ass'' Is Not A Wise Strategy

Handling Things You Don't Want To Handle: Mistakes, Too Much Work, Chimp Work, Ethical Issues, and Sexual Harassment

Mistakes! It's Not Whether You'll Make Them. (You Will.) It's What You Do Next That Counts

Handling Chimp Work Without Going Bananas!

Help! I'm Drowning! What To Do When You've Got Too Much Work (Or Too Little...)

Ethical Issues: How To Avoid Being Led Away In Handcuffs And At The Same Time Avoid Torquing Off Your Boss

Sexual Harassment: Stopping A Problem Before It Is A Problem

Being Your Own Career Coach And Living The Life You Want

Balancing Your Work And Your Life Outside Of Work. Stop Laughing!

Use Evaluations And Criticism To Propel Your Career Forward

Upping The Ante: How To Make Thousands More Than You Thought You Would

Knowledge is power

Recognize that in the absence of other considerations (which we're going to talk about in a minute), you have limited negotiating power as a new lawyer

Answer the question ``What's in it for me?''---or encourage them to overlook that question entirely

What to do if your bid for more money fails

As Will Rogers Said, ``Even If You're On The Right Track, If You're Sitting There, You'll Get Run Over.'' Take Hidden Opportunities To Make Your Career Take Off Like A Rocket

What To Do If You're Hating Your Job. Don't Turn Into A Boiled Frog!

Appendix A: Interest Research Resources

Appendix B: Sample Law Firm Evaluation Forms

Appendix C: Contact Information And Other Books To Check Out