How to Find Law Office Jobs on Craigslist in 4 Easy Steps

Visit Craigslist.org

Craigslist is a popular classified website and service. It not only connects buyers and sellers, but employers and job seekers too. Once at the website, select your state and city, like New York and Buffalo. 

Perform a Search

After selecting your city, look to the left-hand side of the page. There, you will find a search box. You can use this search box, but change the default settings to jobs. Then, enter in relevant keywords. For example, use you can use the words secretary, accountant, translator, paralegal, lawyer, law office, or attorney.
 
Review Your Craigslist Search Results

After performing a Craigslist.org search, you will see a list of results. These should be related to the search phrases you used. Most general positions, even for accountants, secretaries, and translators, will state that the job is in a law office. This is what you want, so click for more information. You are looking for good jobs that you are qualified for.
 
Make Contact

Once you found a good law office job that you like, you can start to make contact or apply for the position. It is important to reread the Craigslist job listing to ensure you do it the right way. Some would like you to email, fax, or mail your resume, while others accept phone calls or want resumes delivered in person.

As you can see, it is relatively easy to find law office jobs on the classified website. In fact, you can find law office and other jobs on Craigslist with ease, regardless of where you live or where you want to work. To get started and search with ease, download the free Craigslist Reader at MotionT.com. Perform free multi-city, statewide, or nationwide searches today.

How to Chose and Hire a Divorce Lawyer Who Is Right For You

Divorce can be a highly emotional, stressful, and intimidating process. There is almost no area of the law which requires as much paper work or the filling out and filing of forms and other documents. This process can be confusing and costly, both financially and emotionally.

As a result, your choice of a divorce lawyer may be one of the most important decisions you make in your case.

Not every lawyer will be right for you. You must be sure that your philosophy of how to handle your divorce case matches that of your lawyer, and that the two of you are 'on the same page.' Because of this, you must ask questions and gather information which reveal the attorney's philosophy for handling divorces.

This guide will help you understand the important facts and questions you must know and deal with when selecting your divorce attorney. By understanding how to select the right divorce lawyer for you and your special case, you will get through your divorce with the least amount of cost and stress.

Researching Your Lawyer

Once you have selected a lawyer to meet with, the next thing you should do is to find out about the lawyer's professional experience and background. There are several ways to do this:

1. Search the Internet: Make a Google search for your lawyer. Look for a legal blog, a website, news stories quoting or featuring the attorney, and other online information. Ideally, your lawyer should devote almost all of his or her practice to divorce law.

2. Contact the New York State Office of Court Administration: This office can tell you when the attorney was admitted to practice law in New York, where he or she went to school and when he or she graduated, and whether the attorney is in good standing or has a record of disciplinary actions.

3. Ask Around: You should ask your circle of friends and professional advisers (accountants, attorneys, marriage therapists, etc) what they know about the attorney, or if they know someone who does know about the attorney.

Contacting the Lawyer's Office and Scheduling Your Initial Consultation

Now that you have selected a lawyer to interview and have done research on him or her, the next step is to contact the lawyer's office and schedule an appointment. You can learn a lot about how your lawyer will behave if you retain him or her just by how he or she handles the simple but important task of scheduling a meeting with you, a potential new client.

You should first contact the attorney's office by telephone or e-mail and request an appointment. When you do this, it is important to tell the lawyer's office that you would like to discuss a divorce case.

Take careful note of how quickly your message is answered. Your inquiry should always be answered promptly, and that means within 24 hours. If the lawyer you contacted cannot manage to reply to a potential new client who is bringing him or her a new case and therefore new fees, that fact should tell you something about how he or she will behave once he or she already has your money.

Also, pay close attention to who you deal with in setting the appointment and how you are treated. Most good divorce lawyers rely on an assistant to schedule their appointments, and that person is very often responsible for much of the day to day communications and interactions with you once you hire your attorney. If you are not comfortable with the assistant who sets your appointment, it is a sign that the attorney may not be right for you and your case.

During the interview, you will be able to tell your attorney why you are getting divorced, and what problems need to be addressed regarding your children, your property, and your debts.

At some point during the meeting, you should be able to ask questions about your case. You should try and write down as many of your questions as you can before the meeting so that you make sure you remember to ask them.
In my experience, there are nine questions you should always ask a divorce lawyer during your interview. The answers to these questions will tell you a good deal about your attorney and if he or she is right for you.

1. How much experience do you have with cases like mine?
2. How much of your practice is devoted to divorce law?
3. What other types of cases do you handle?
4. How do you communicate with clients? For example, e-mail, text message, telephone, regular mail?
5. How fast do you answer calls and other communications from clients?
6. How much will your services cost me, and what is your upfront retainer fee?
7. Do you bill for normal business 'overhead' such as faxes, postage, and photocopies?
8. How long does a case like mine usually take if there are no unusual developments?
9. What is your philosophy or style of handling divorces? Why?

Deciding Which Lawyer is Right for You

While you are interviewing a lawyer, you should listen carefully to the answers provided. You should also pay extremely close attention to your lawyer's personality, his or her manners and behavior, and how you feel during the interview. How does the attorney make you feel? Comfortable? At ease? Does he or she treat you as an equal and with respect? Or do you feel like the attorney has a superior attitude and talks down to you? Has the lawyer spent meaningful time with you and provided answers to your questions and concerns in a friendly and appropriate manner?

How you feel about your lawyer and how he or she behaves towards you will absolutely affect your ability to trust and communicate effectively with that person over emotional and highly personal matters. After the interview, assess the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate. Did the lawyer listen to you? Did the lawyer provide enough information to make you feel comfortable that he or she knew the law and procedure in your county? Did you feel confident?

Once you have reviewed and considered the interview and how the attorney behaved and made you feel, what you saw and heard in dealing with the attorney's office in scheduling and conducting the interview, the answers to your questions, and the costs and fees for hiring the attorney, you now have the information and experiences necessary to decide which attorney best suits your needs.

Law Office Lease Considerations

Do not underestimate the value of location. Many factors play into locating your law firm; distance from home, type of practice, location of clients, and so on. Before deciding where to locate your office, first decide what factors are most important to you and your law firm. The answer to this inquiry should give you a firmer grasp on where to look and who to contact.

Since executing an office lease is legal in nature many lawyers are reticent to ask for help, especially from non-lawyers. However, enlisting the help of a commercial real estate advisor or a landlord-tenant attorney who specializes in tenant representation is strongly recommended. Larger firms can enlist law firm leasing groups, who specialize in representing law firms. An effective advisor will know what space is available, the market rate, and supply the necessary forms. Perhaps more importantly, your broker will free your time for billable client work. Another factor to keep in mind is that tenant rep agents usually gets their fee from the lessor, meaning their expertise and help is free to you, the prospective tenant.

If you decide that you don't need help, then "going alone" is still a viable option. With the spread of information over the internet, now, more so than ever, a real estate layman has access to an abundance of information. Unlike residential real estate, commercial real estate has no uniform listing service such as the MLS. Many commercial deals are done off market, meaning that they are never advertised. However, the largest listing service for commercial real estate is LoopNet, which lists over 2.8 billion square feet for lease. LoopNet is a good starting point to locate available office space and is a valuable resource for finding comparable rents. Although retaining a broker or a landlord-tenant attorney is advisable, representing yourself may give you some bargaining leverage when negotiating down your rental rate. Try to pass the landlord's savings through to you.