Job Tips: Representing Your Colleagues
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law dawg
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December 2, 2025
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Per the request of one our readers, what is your take on representing your colleagues? More specifically, what do you think “about partners who DEMAND associates perform free legal services for coworkers? Don’t they realize the associate will learn things they probably should not know and the coworker may be an uncooperative entitled brat? It rarely ends well and oh …
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Job Tips: Running For Judge In 2026
Next year is a judicial election year and every seat on the bench in Eighth Judicial District Court (plus two seats on the Supreme Court and several in various justice courts and the municipalities) will be up for election. Candidate filing is from January 5-16, 2026. You can get the 2026 Judicial Candidate Filing Guide for Clark County here. Considering …
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Job Tips: Never Accept A Counteroffer?
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law dawg
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October 21, 2025
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Today we thought we would revisit a topic we discussed in a post back in 2013: counteroffers. We are in an interesting job market right now and it seems like it is easier than ever to jump ship for a few bucks more, but what if your current job gives you a counteroffer? Back then we threw out the following …
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Job Tips: Newly Admitted
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law dawg
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October 3, 2025
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With bar exam results coming out today, we though we would ask you all for your tips and advice for someone newly admitted to the bar in Nevada. What does some brand new to the practice of law need to know to succeed? What do you wish someone had told you?
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Job Tips: Common Courtesies
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law dawg
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September 9, 2025
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As least one of you has been clamoring for a post focused on the filing and production of non-native pdfs, so here it is. Where do you stand on this? Is there any reasonable position other than production of native or OCR’ed pdfs should be mandatory and customary? What about providing opposing counsel with the original .doc file of discovery …
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