1. Path: Click on Career Center Tab> Click on Search Martindale-Hubbell from the left hand side menu
    
2. Martindale-Hubbell is the most widely used and trusted resource for the global legal profession, delivering the introductions and insights you need to prepare to succeed in the business and practice of law. You can identify and retrieve valuable professional and biographical information to target employers for interviews or to prepare for the interviews you have already secured.
    
3. Click on the Lawyer Tab. It can be helpful to contact attorneys from your school who practice in a specific geographic area. This is essential for networking and for having successful interviews.
   1. Type Seton Hall under the Law School field
   2. Type Seton Hall under the Undergrad field
   3. Type New Jersey under the City field
   4. Click the Search button
   5. Click the link for Paul N Ambrose. Note the available information, including peer review rating, practice areas, year admitted to practice and associations. Peer Review Ratings attest to a lawyer's legal ability and professional ethics and reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and Judiciary.  Buyers of legal services, as well as those making referrals, consider Peer Review Ratings invaluable when evaluating a lawyer. Peer Review Ratings let you know you have found counsel with superior ethics and significant professional experience.
       
4. Click the Location/ Area of Practice tab. Note: It is best to select either a For Lawyers Only search or a For Law Firms Only search when using this tab. Searching for lawyers and law firms simultaneously can be confusing because the results will include the names of both firms and individual attorneys mixed into one list.
   1. From the “Look For” drop down menu choose For Lawyers Only:
      1. Select Corporate Law from the Major Practice Area field
      2. Type Loyola under the Law School field
      3. Type Chicago under the City field
      4. Click the Search button
      5. Choose the link for Scott R. Anderson and note the available information
   2. From the “Look For” drop down menu choose For Law Firms Only:
      1. Select Intellectual Property & Trademark & Copyright from the Major Practice Area field
      2. Type San Francisco under the City field
      3. Type California under the State field
      4. Type Berkeley in the Additional Terms field
      5. *Click the Search button
         *Typing the name of the law school in the additional terms field ensures at least one attorney at that firm will be from the desired law school.
   3. Click the Government tab
      1. Using the Career Tab to look up government attorneys is the fastest way to see a list of government agencies and departments listed on Martindale Hubbell. You can now search through the listings to find alumni of your law school or undergraduate institution.
         1. Select Commerce, Dept. of from the Department/Agency field
         2. Type Georgetown in the Law School field
         3. Click the Search button

 
RESEARCH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS IN THE NEWS FROM THE CAREER CENTER TAB

1. PATH: Career Center Tab> Click Search Employers in the News from the left hand menu
2. A news search is a great way to learn about recent cases a firm or lawyer is handling and activities in which a lawyer or firm is involved. This is wonderful information for the interview. LexisNexis has one of the largest collections of non-legal information online. Fact-finding is more complete with the exclusive news and business materials on LexisNexis.
3. Search: Latham Watkins. Keep the source News,  Previous 90 days. Click Search.  Click on the first article.
4. It is advisable to stay current on the news involving any potential employer. Click on the Save as Alert link at the top center of your screen and fill out the template with your desired search criteria.  Relevant materials are effortlessly delivered to your email, a LexisNexis printer, or stored online for quick retrieval.
5. Name the Alert: Latham & Watkins. Check the box next to Notification and type in your email address. Click Save. Click Save Again. Click on the Alerts tab and delete the Alert. Note how easy it is to set up and delete Alerts.

RESEARCH THE CASES OF POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS FROM THE LEGAL TAB

1. Path> Research System tab>Search tab>Legal>Choose Federal & States Cases, Combined
    
2. One of the most effective ways to demonstrate your knowledge of and interest in a particular organization is through case law. Understanding a few of the law firm’s cases is a great way to generate discussion in an interview.
    
3. Search:
   1. Choose the Counsel segment in the Restrict by Document Segment drop-down menu. Segment searching ensures that your search terms are found in a particular portion (segment) of your document. The Counsel segment searches for cases that contain your search terms in the Counsel segment of a case. Note: The Martindale-Hubbell forms located on the Career Center page we used earlier are actually segment searches in Martindale Hubbell.  Delete any previous terms from the search terms box.
   2. Type: White & Case (name of firm) in the box to the right of the segment drop down box.
   3. Click Add
   4. Restrict By Date to the Previous Year
   5. Click Search
       
4. Use Focus to search for specific areas of law or issues.  Focus narrows your results to the most relevant ones by adding additional terms. Focus is a search within a search.  
    
5. Focus: and Bankruptcy. This will return a list of cases in which White & Case was counsel and the term Bankruptcy was discussed.
    
6. If you know the attorney with whom you will be interviewing, you should also run a search for cases litigated by that attorney.
   1. Click the Edit Search and delete previous search terms [COUNSEL (White & Case)]
   2. Choose the Counsel segment in the Restrict by Document Segment drop-down menu
   3. Type Morgan pre/3 Chu (name of attorney) and click the Add Button. When searching for a person it is important to use the /3 connector in case the attorney uses a middle name or initial.  The pre/ connector searches for documents that contain the first term preceded by the second term by not more than the stated number of words.
   4. Click the Search button

RESEARCH LAW REVIEW ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS FROM THE LEGAL TAB

1. Path: Search tab>Legal tab> Law Reviews & Journals>US & Canadian Law Reviews, Combined
    
2. Individuals and organizations are often published authors or contributors in Law Reviews and Journals. This is another great opportunity to create a discussion in an interview. In addition, these documents can help you gain a further understanding of the organization or individual.
    
3. To find an author or an acknowledgement of a law firm:
    
   1. Search: Delete any previous terms from the search terms box.
   2. Choose the Author* or the Name** segment under the Select a Segment drop-down menu
   3. Type Amy pre/3 Chua in the box to right of the Select a Segment box.
   4. Click the Add button
   5. Click the Search button
      
      *The Author segment searches for both Authors and Acknowledgements.
      
      **The Name segment only searches for Authors

 
RESEARCH MARTINDALE HUBBELL LEGAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS

1. Path: Search Tab>Legal tab> Reference>Martindale Hubbell Legal Articles Hyperlink>Martindale Hubbell Legal Articles
    
2. Individuals and organizations are often published authors in Martindale-Hubbell Legal Articles. You should be knowledgeable about the articles your interviewer has authored. This is another great opportunity to create a discussion in an interview. Martindale-Hubbell Legal Articles is a database that comprises over 12,000 fully searchable articles that offer attorney insights into legal decisions and commentary on new statutes and regulations.
    
3. Search:
   1. Choose the Byline segment under the Select a segment drop down menu
   2. Type: Holland & Knight in the box to the right of the Select a Segment box
   3. Click Add
   4. Click Search
       
4. Open the first article. Under the Byline segment you can view firm credentials, additional articles by the same author(s), additional articles by the same firm, stories related to the same topic in news and business sources and stories related to the same topic in Mealey's Litigation Reports.

COUNSEL SELECTOR TAB – NEW tab in www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool!

1. The NEW Counsel Selector tab brings the power of the martindale.com website within the lexis.com framework. There is no difference between the Counsel Selector tab and the martindale.com website. Counsel Selector provides you with direct access to the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory and with several new tools to aid in your job search and professional development.
   1. Lawyer Locator Search Widget provides access to over 1 million lawyers and firm profiles from over 160 countries. Note: This search widget is very similar to the Martindale-Hubbell search widget available from the Career Center, however it does not allow for several restrictions that are available from the Martindale-Hubbell search widget.
       
   2. Top 10 Lists can be an excellent starting point for you to identify law firms of interest based on any of the variables identified below, particularly litigation activity in specific practice areas:
      1. US Federal Litigation and transactional activity
      2. Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings – find out how other lawyers rate the performance and ethics of the individuals with whom you will be interviewing
      3. Visibility on martindale.com based on user activity
      4. Appearances in side-by-side comparisons
      5. Numerous legal article views on martindale.com – easily locate articles written by attorneys at the firms you will be interviewing with
          
   3. My Martindale Network is an ideal tool for managing contacts during the job search process and beyond! You can create your own Martindale Network, securely post comments and store the profiles of lawyers and firms during the job search process and beyond. Best of all, registration for this feature is free!

 
HISTORY

1. Click on the History link in the upper right hand corner of the screen. History automatically archives all of your research for the past 30 days. Helpful search descriptions allow you to track your research progress and quickly determine which resources you have exhausted. Use Recent Results to quickly scan your search activity from the last 24 hours. Archived Activity is held for another 29 days. Either set of search activity can be printed with the view printable history link to thoroughly keep track of your activity or share it with others.

RESEARCH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS USING COURTLINK STRATEGIC PROFILES

1. CourtLink® searches the most in-depth historical federal civil online database of court records, covering 10 to 20 years, then pinpoints relevant information and delivers a Strategic Profile with easy-to-read graphs, data charts and facts. This information allows you to quickly identify practice area trends and opportunities with a firm, attorney or judge. CourtLink® enables you to discuss an attorney’s or firm’s practice areas during the interview.
    
2. Path: Search tab>Legal tab> Court Records from Courtlink> Litigant, Attorney & Judge Strategic Profiles
    
3. Search:
   1. Click Attorney/Law Firm tab
   2. Court System: U.S. District Courts (Civil Only)
   3. Law Firm: Greenberg and Traurig
   4. Search for cases: 1/1/2007-present date.
   5. Click Create Profile.
   6. The Attorneys/Law Firm profile shows all of the attorneys that match the law firm name we entered on the previous search page. We must now decide whether to include all of these attorneys in our profile, or select only certain attorneys to include by clicking on the boxes next to those names.
   7. Check the box next to “Case Count” to select all of the attorneys
   8. Click Create Profile
   9. Profile Report:
      1. The Nature of Suit (“NOS”) gives the classification of the main legal issues in the case and is based on the civil cover sheet. An attorney must check the appropriate NOS on the cover sheet.
      2. The first pie graph is a Nature of Suit Analysis. This allows you to see the primary litigation practice areas. The text list describing the NOS percentages is the chart on the left of the screen.
      3. Scroll down to see the Judge Appearance Analysis. This allows you to see where the firm or attorney has appeared.
      4. Scroll down to see the Client Analysis. This allows you to see all of the clients the firm or attorney is presently representing in litigation (in U.S. District Ct.), the case heading of each case and the NOS classifications.
      5. Scroll down to see the Capacity Served graph. This allows you to see whether the law firm or attorney most often represents plaintiffs or defendants.
      6. The Judgment Analysis chart, located at the very bottom of the screen, shows what percentage of the time courts have ruled for or against the attorney or firm.
      7. Back at the top of the screen, the gray Trends tab next to the Profile Report tab, provides Trend analysis with graphs on: Case Count by Period, Case Count by Case Type by Period and Case Count by State by Period.  
      8. At the top of the screen, the gray Case List tab provides the heading for all of the cases.  Also, if you click the View link in the Action column and then click Run Search, you can view the docket for that particular case. It is interesting to note what type of motions or documents are filed during different cases and how a particular court’s docket moves forward. NOTE: Do not worry that there is a note at the top saying “Cost for this search is $0,00.” There is no cost associated with using Courtlink on your academic ID.  Note that not every court docket will be available to open because you can only open dockets that someone in the commercial market has already retrieved.
      9. The gray Criteria tab provides the search criteria used to create the profile.
          

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