Why Attorneys Should Be Working with the Press Instead of Against Them
You know that public relations is an important aspect of your business development strategy. But do you know...
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How Attorneys Can Develop and Cultivate New Client Relationships: Honing Your Rainmaking Skills
Whether you are a solo practitioner, an associate, or a partner, the ability to bring in business is...
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Career Counselling for all legal job aspirants
In New York, we just had our first cool weekend of the month. It's starting to feel a little like fall and all...
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Law Firms and Part-Time Attorneys - They Really Can Go Hand in Hand
We've all heard a story like this: a motivated, highly successful (generally female) associate at a top-tier...
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The Advantage of installing a Wireless network to stay connected on the Internet
You started your own firm and are growing your business and doing what you love. But you didn't go to law...
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Advancement, Mentorship, and Career-Life Balance: How to "Have It All" and Still Retain Your Sanity
''It may take years for you to make partner.'' How many times have you heard that one? How about ''Good luck...
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Success in Law firm depends upon a good Mentor
If we are lucky, we have fond memories of special teachers and other grown-ups, including our parents, who...
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Getting Published: The Foundation for Business Development
Business development in the legal community is a science, but it requires the creativity of an artist. That...
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Become an Expert and Double Your Worth
Asking for a promotion (and the big raise that goes with it) ranks right up there with an appearance on Fear...
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The 10-Step, ''No-Fail'' Guide to Distinguishing Yourself as a First-Year Associate
Be a Prince (or Princess) Amongst Paupers.Remember Prince...the Artist Formerly Known as Prince...who is now,...
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Speak Your Way to the Top: Debunking Seven Public-Speaking Myths
At some point in your career—whether you're making a pitch to potential clients or delivering a speech...
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Building a Reputation for Yourself as an Industry Expert
Several times per month, I receive phone calls from recent law school graduates who are looking for...
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Want to Improve Your Legal Writing? First, Improve Your Writing. (Part I)
I am not an attorney. My specialties are writing, editing, and communications. However, I have spent...
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Must You be a ''Type-A'' Personality to Succeed in a Law Firm?
Today's law firms are increasingly interested in promoting diversity among their ranks. While some law firms...
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A Fast Way to Torpedo Your Legal Career Forward or Backward
''Birds of a feather flock together. If you're an eagle, don't hang around chickens; chickens can't fly.''
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Lessons to Be Learned from The Apprentice: The Scary Synchronicity between Law-Firm Life and ''Trump Land''
Groan. Another blurb about Donald Trump's irritating yet successful efforts to become a brand of one: ''The...
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Why You Should Think Twice Before Quitting Any Legal Job
If you go into any firm that has been around more than 20 or 30 years, you will inevitably find a handful of...
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No Need for Mentors: Summon Your Posse! (And Turn the ''In Posse'' into the ''In Esse.'')
Here is a quick test to determine your generational orientation. When you think of a ''posse,'' does your mind...
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Can a legal career run in a the family for three decades?
Ever wonder what it's like to grow up in a family full of attorneys? Kfir Luzzatto and John Pendleton could...
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Following the Career Paths of Your Law Role Models
Remember when your professors told you that average grades would not carry you to a successful law career?...
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The Case for Jury Consultants and the process of selecting the potential Jurors
Is it really akin to malpractice if an attorney elects not to use a jury consultant during a trial? Money is a...
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Clear Out the Clutter and Make Room for Excellence
It is finally the start of a new year, and whether you are looking to revitalize your current job path or...
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The unorthodox path of 'reading the law', become 'law readers' and enter the field of Law
In Robert Frost's famous poem ''The Road Not Taken,'' the narrator takes the path less traveled and claims...
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Should You Be Bothered With Pro Bono Work?
According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, pro bono is a phrase derived from Latin meaning ''for the...
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The Journey up the corporate ladder from GC's to C.E.O's
The corporate and legal communities received two shocks within the past month: first, when General Counsel...
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Tips on how to effectively manage a new start up business
Whether you have just graduated from law school or have been working at a law firm for decades, starting your...
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Conversational skills pave the ways to gain success in business and social life
Name the number-one skill that leads to personal and professional success. Survey says: the ability to...
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Electronic Frontiers in Law Firm Marketing
Forget phone book marketing, direct mail, and everything you ever heard about banner ads.
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Career Management for Attorneys Not Given its Due Importance at Law Schools
There are essentially three phases to a lawyer's career, one of which may or may not ever be realized. They...
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Taking advantage of the E-World in litigation and cases
Need to find evidence? If you are an attorney, you will not likely be scouring through file cabinets to get...
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