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Hi,

I have an interview coming up with a labor and employment firm and would like to know if anyone has good resources for me to learn more about the area.

onlabor.org
jdsupra

Know the difference between labor law and employment law. I made that mistake during my first l&e interview.

Awkwardddd.

Chambers associate good starting point. Also figure out what they do - big differences b/w FLSA and Title VII or ERISA.

Your question leads me to think that this interview is part of OCI. If so, any guide is only a starter. You would have to do the leg work at actually figuring out what the firm does. For employment, are they employer/employee side? Some firms have a visceral reaction to the opposite side, and all are zealous for their clients' cause. The same with labor, are they mostly representing unions or employers? The practices of employer/employee sides are widely different. Here is a guide I found to be helpful: http://hls.harvard.edu/content/uploads/ ... nt2012.pdf. But, again, it is only the start.

Why employment law? Well, there are two reasons: (1) employment is a complex and ever changing area of the law; and (2) employment work comes with a significant human component. The cases often boil down to people and the things that make people tick.


... or at least that is what I say during employment law lateral interviews.

This is a little off topic, but I was hoping that someone in this thread would be able to speak to the difference in the type of work that an associate does at a traditional labor and employment firm (Littler, Jackson Lewis) as opposed to a big law firm with a large L&E department (Morgan Lewis,Proskauer).