Career Resources from the Library: Links and Databases

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Explore the Career & Professional Resources Collection in the Law Library

The Law Library provides career resources to help you explore the legal profession. The databases, websites, and books listed in this guide can assist you in refining your career interests and beginning your job search. The Law Library makes these resources available in consultation with Career Development and Student Professional Development.

A great way to get started is by browsing the Career & Professional Resources book collection located on the Main Floor of the Law Library. These books can be checked out and are listed in the Law Library catalog GAVEL.

Research Guides

• Alternative Careers
• Finding Alumni
  • Looking for Alums to Contact to Increase Your Network?
• Researching Prospective Employers

Career Resources by Practice Area

Find practice area specific career resources, including links to articles, lists of professional organizations, and books available in the Law Library:

Analytics

• Lexis Advance
  • Context
• Westlaw
  • Litigation Analytics

New & Alerts

• Bloomberg
  • My Work History > Alerts
  • Practice Areas

Evernote - Remember Everything

• ˜Web Clipper
• Manage Your Job Search in Evernote
• ˜Quick Guide to Begin Using Evernote in 10 Easy Steps
• Training
  •  lynda.com at UGA
  •  Skillshare

Evernote in Law Practice

• How to Use Evernote as a Law Practice Tool
• 10 Ways to Use Evernote in Your Law Practice

 American Bar Association

• ABA Journal Legal Ethics blogs
• Blawg Hall of Fame
• Law Student Division
  • Before the Bar blog
• Legal Technology Resource Center
• Technology Buyer's Guide
• Formal Opinions
  • Opinion 11-459 Duty to Protect the Confidentiality of E-mail Communications with One's Client (Aug. 4, 2011)

  • Opinion 477 Securing Communication of Protected Client Information (May 4, 2017)

• Model Rules of Professional Conduct

 Law Sites by Robert Ambrogi - posts news and reviews of websites and products of interest to the legal profession

• States that have adopted the change to Model Rule 1.1

 Guide to Privacy Resources 2019

Manage Your Email

• Email Assistants - use to organize multiple accounts; may include features not in Gmail; included on various best productivity apps
  •  BlueMail
  •  Edison Mail
  •  Postbox
  • Trove
• Apps/Add-ons
  • Clutter - sort low priority message in Outlook
  • Gmelius - long list of features for Gmail including schedule emails to send later, snooze messages to leave your inbox then return at a designated time, and automatically label outgoing emails
  • Mailstrom - helps to process large batches of emails quickly
  • ReplyToSome - for Microsoft Outlook, minimizes the risk of accidentally emailing the wrong people

Productivity

• Asian Efficiency - The Simple Guide to Managing Your Email More Effectively
• Read things later services
  • Instapaper
  • Pocket

• Experts
  • Elizabeth Saunders, RealLifeE
  • Julie Morgenstern
    • 7 Reasons You Should Never Check Email First Thing In The Morning (Sid Savara)

Training

  LinkedIn Learning (Available to UGA, formerly lynda.com)

 Skillshare

Avoid a Reply All fiasco with these tips:

• Enter the address last. Click Forward, not Reply, when answering messages. That way, the Address box of every reply starts out empty. Compose email, and then go back and enter the address(es).

• Give yourself a window. In some email programs, you can set up a send delay. Your email will wait 60 seconds (or more) after you click Send, giving you a window in which to realize your error and stop the message from being sent.

  • Set up in Microsoft Outlook or in Gmail
  • For Macs install free version of a plug-in called Mail Butler to add this feature to Apple’s Mail program

For Outlook

• Remove the Reply All button on your end. In Outlook, you can move the button to a different spot on the toolbar so it’s harder to hit by mistake. Instructions
• Remove the Reply All button on their end. If you and your recipients are all using Microsoft Outlook, you can disable their Reply All button on messages you send. It is a way of preventing other people from making Reply All errors based on your original message. You need the free NoReplyAll add-in for Outlook.
• Undo send. The Recall command deletes a message from the recipients’ in-boxes before they’ve opened it. It only works when you and you recipients are in the same company (using the same Microsoft Exchange server), you all use Outlook, and each recipient hasn’t yet seen the message.