I have worked as a legal assistant at law firms in the summers between my college years. The lawyers worth working for care about more than whether you wear stockings to the interview. (I never wore them, and I DO dress professionally.) Stockings are outdated. I wear hot business outfits, and I do NOT wear stockings with the skirt kinds of them.
In any event, a good boss will care primarily about your intelligence. The best lawyers to work for are more interested in your ability to carry on a logical and intelligent conversation with them. This is how the good attorneys choose their assistants. If their secretary gets their logic, that means they’re smart, will be able to follow through with ideas, and will be on top of everything.
Fuck the “nylons.”