Building a Consensus between Attorneys to Run a Successful Practice
Successful practice development, whether conducted by the sole practitioner or the 100-attorney firm, requires...
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Achieving Attorney Success: Making a Coordinated Effort
Attorneys in larger firms frequently say "Well, I know what I’m doing, but I have no idea what the folks...
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Time Management for Busy Attorneys
Time management is a simple yet frustrating problem for attorneys. A personal practice plan allocates more...
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How Personal Planning Can Benefit Attorneys in Their Practice
Whether partners in a multinational mega firm or sole practitioners in a rural area, attorneys are responsible...
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How Attorneys Can Enhance the Role of Their Staff in External Marketing
Training for business development involves workshops, seminars, and courses aimed at sharpening client/service...
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How Staff Involvement Impacts Attorney Practice Development
As a partner in a small boutique firm, Jeff diligently worked to communicate the firm's practice objectives to...
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The Real World As Referred In the World of Law School
The world of work, often referred to in law school as "the real world" (as if law school were some kind of...
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Why and How Lawyers Need to Sell Themselves to Promote their Legal Careers
The statement, "You are unique," may not strike you as particularly profound. Of course you are unique; you...
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Career Growth for Corporate Counsel
Many law firms seek corporate clients as much for prestige as for potential revenue and profits. In the...
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Choosing a Bar Review Course
Law schools do not prepare students to take bar exams. At best, students are offered law courses, such as...
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Tackling Anxiety During Bar Exams
The discipline you have been developing in shifting your mindset about the bar exam, organizing your life,...
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Some Great Tips for Your Bar Exam Day
Get there on time: In most jurisdictions, you have pre-assigned seats. But if possible, request a seat by the...
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Reasons Not to Combine Two Bar Exams
When I am asked whether a student should take two (or more) bar exams, I answer, "NO." My answer is contrary...
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The Different Types of Bar Exams
Almost every jurisdiction has a bar exam, which must be passed as part of its admission criteria. Wisconsin is...
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Maintaining A Positive Perception of the Bar Exam
When we sit alone to study for the bar exam, many of us hear negative voices: "No, you can't." "It's...
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Popular Bar Review Courses and Resources
Below is a partial listing of the courses offered nationally and a sampling of these in New York and...
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Stopping the Cycle of Failure in Bar Exams
You may have taken the bar exam so often that you've given up hope of ever passing it. You may have tried...
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Overcoming Perceived and Real Bias in the Bar Exam
The challenge of staying in a "Yes I Can" mode is especially daunting for minority candidates. Throughout law...
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Learning to Keep Time on Your Side When Going for the Bar Exams
"I can’t" Maybe this is your first response to the idea of learning multiple areas of law, listening to...
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Techniques for Passing the Bar Exam
There are techniques to answering bar exam questions. After having read more than my share of essay, MBE and...
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Self-Discipline Tips for the Bar Exams
I give a bar exam lecture on organization. My thesis is that if you organize your life and study routine, a...
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Breaking the Bar Exam Barrier
Imagine yourself the day before the bar exam. You are too excited to sleep, but you make yourself do so...
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How to Study for the Bar Exam
There was a student at my alma mater, who was notorious for sitting in the lunchroom all day, playing bridge....
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Influencing Your Legal Market as an Attorney
A basic marketing tenet is the concept of delivering what the market needs—not what the provider wants to...
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Developing Your Legal Practice By Utilizing Demographic Data
Demographics is a methodical breakdown of any population grouping into similar characteristics which are...
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The Sources of Revenue and Profit For Attorneys and Legal Firms
An attorney, a member of the executive committee of a midsized law firm, wondered about the profitability of...
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Achieving Legal Goals and Objectives as an Attorney
Setting objectives and goals is a simple concept, but hard to do. It is a commitment to achieve specific...
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Attorney Strategies for Developing Legal Business
As an attorney considers a business development program, there are many strategy options available. Selection...
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Acquiring Legal Clients After Completing Law School
A good time to start is when you just get out of law school. Most likely, you will be single then, and other...
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Balancing Professional and Business Responsibilities at a Law Firm
The responsibility of new lawyers is to become able professionals. This requires the associate to learn about...
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