Legal Authority

About me

History:
Started in 2000, Legal Authority is part of the Employment Research Institute, Inc., and employs a combination of highly-specialized methods to assist candidates in securing employment.

Overview:
Legal Authority assists attorneys and law students in securing employment in the legal field. Legal Authority provides a robust and sophisticated marketing service through a combination of resume and cover letter re-writing, pre-interview and post-interview counseling, LinkedIn customization and targeted mailing.

Employees:
A. Harrison Barnes, Esq., is CEO and President of Legal Authority and its parent company, Employment Research Institute, which has approximately 300 employees.

My work

It is a fact that not all legal hiring organizations advertise their positions. Because of this, Legal Authority is able to benefit its clients in a way that online job boards, recruiters and others cannot. We assist our clients in navigating the legal market by providing them with exposure to a wide-range of potential employers. We assist our candidates in conducting targeted mailings to legal employers that include in-house, law firm, government, and public interest organizations.

• We provide a free resume revision and market evaluation to all potential Legal Authority candidates.
• We provide guidance for navigating the legal market and discuss each candidate’s marketability within the legal market of their choice.
• We discuss a candidate’s ideal marketing approach in terms of the type of legal employers that interest them.
• We generate a custom list of legal employers tailored to each candidate’s preferences, or as we call it, a “targeted mailing list.”
• We provide candidates with customized cover letters, resumes, and LinkedIn profiles designed to maximize a candidate’s marketability within a given area.
• Whether a candidate is interested in one employer or a thousand employers, we will provide the necessary materials to apply for any legal job.
• We provide the candidate with the necessary contact information for any legal job, in any practice area, in any city, county, state, or country.
• Our services help candidates find the employer they seek to work for: whether it is in-house, at a law firm, with a public-interest organization, for the federal or state government, or at a law school.
• We provide our candidates with a targeted mailing “package” that includes their custom resumes, cover letters, and prepared envelopes.

Why Our Services Work:
Targeted mailing is among the most effective ways to get a job because it enables you to identify every potential employer who meets your interests within a given area.

When you conduct a targeted mailing you are applying to every employer who may have an advertised position, may be hiring informally without an advertisement, or who may decide they have a need when they see your application. This marketing strategy has worked for thousands of attorneys and law students who have used Legal Authority.

Performance:
Legal Authority is extremely effective because a vast majority of legal positions are filled through self-initiated contact with legal employers. Legal Authority has already helped thousands of law students and attorneys receive multiple interviews and offers. With facilities in both the United States and abroad, Legal Authority operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, updating information about legal employers throughout the world.