Translating Your Legal Skills Into Client Service
A client's goals and expectations do not exist in a vacuum. Client expectations arise from real business...
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Relationships With The Legal Department
How are the relationships between legally trained persons in non-legal positions and members of the corporate...
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Not Giving Way to Substance Abuse is Essential for Professional Success
This month, the Nevada bar association hit the headlines when it petitioned the Nevada Supreme Court to...
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Choosing Your Time of the Day is Important for Success as an Attorney
It goes without saying that the timing of important happenings and events in your work-life would mostly be...
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Growing Your Law Firm Career by Effectively Delegating Work to Associates
In law firms, traditionally, the senior-junior relationship is respected up to a point and building a team of...
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Conquering the Bar Exam: Knowing Thy Enemy
Tips on the Day of the Bar ExamFirst and foremost, when you are taking a test for multiple days, you want to...
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The Different Policies of Various State Bar Associations Regarding the Transfer of MBE Scores from One Jurisdiction to Another
One major motivator for students to focus a large portion of exam preparation time on the Multistate Bar...
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Attorney-Client Privilege for Corporate Communications Made to In-House Counsel
The notion and protections of the “attorney-client” privilege varies from state to state within the U.S....
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The Multistate Bar Examination(MBE) for Law Graduates
Recent law graduates who live in areas where courts of multiple states are equally accessible, or those...
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The Art of Negotiation for Attorneys
This article could also be titled the “Art of War” by Sun-Tzu because the strategies and tactics are...
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When Are Flat Fees Better, and How to Initiate Flat Fee Arrangements
A flat-fee structure can increase efficiency and savings where it can be implemented.
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Graduated From a Tier 3 Law School: There’s much you can do with your degree
What you do with your tier 3 law school degree depends on you: Graduating from a tier 3 law school does not...
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Billing 3000 Hours: Is It Possible and How to Do It?
To start with, let’s admit that 3000 billable hours a year is an attainable target for a young and energetic...
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What it takes to be Successful in a Legal Career
A legal career today can spell different things for different people. A traditional legal career can follow...
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Developing Your Legal Career
There are two keys to developing your legal career: First you need to improve your skills, attributes, and...
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Careers in Law Enforcement for Law Graduates – Part 1
Careers in law enforcement have always offered one of the major alternative career paths for lawyers.
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Planning and Managing Student Loan Debt Repayments Part-2
When you are thinking of repaying your student loans do not miss the following.
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Planning and Managing Student Loan Debt Repayments Part-1
This series of articles is not about how you should take a student loan, or how much you should take, or...
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Paying for Your Degree: A Guide to Financial Aid
Not sure how to pay for three years of law school? Money doesn't grow on trees, but it does come in the form...
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Success as a First-Year Associate: Up and Away
Want to step up fast at your first law-firm job? Rise to the top of the heap? Scale great heights? Veteran...
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Early Investing: Get Rich Slow
It's never too early to start squirreling away your newfound salary. Find answers to your most pressing...
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Changes in the Social Perception of a ''Successful Lawyer''
Almost imperceptibly, three terrible socio-economic waves have struck the legal profession and changed its...
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Low-Cost or Free Online Legal Research Resources
Often in small firms, corporate counsels have to handle a multitude of tasks and not all businesses can afford...
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Reverse Brainstorming in Everyday Legal Practice
First off, ''Reverse Brainstorming'' has become management jargon today, but it is a process used over...
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Don't Try Your Patience, Test It
Patience is said to be one of the greatest virtues. That's time-tested wisdom. However, few of us take...
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Don’t Think Yourself into a Loser
Don’t let the bad news get to you. As a law student you’d already be aware that an average law student...
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Legal Risk Management: A Quick Overview
There's a lot of research and literature out there on risk management and business risk management but...
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Law Students Lose Interest in ‘Public Interest’ after Law School
There is a great amount of literature that proves that while a substantial number of students entering law...
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You Are Nothing More Than another Corporate Employee – Take It or Leave It
Gone are the days when corporations went out of their way to retain in-house counsel and allow them special...
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What Attorneys Can Learn From Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs will be remembered for many things, not the least of which is the technology he conceived. Also...
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