Positives You Can Take From Law School
Everything has a negative and positive side to it and law school is no exception. Whilst understanding the...
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A Twin Career
Synergy can be defined as two actions working together to produce a result more powerful than the sum of its...
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A Dual Career
Synergy can be defined as two actions working together to produce a result more powerful than the sum of its...
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Six High-Value Non-Legal Careers Available To Law Students
It is amazing that once law graduates and practicing lawyers make the tough albeit right decision of shifting...
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How To Relate Your Law School Acquired Skills To High-Value Careers
When you stop to think about it, a career is applying the skills and interests that a person has acquired over...
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Modern Growth Areas For Law Students Looking For Non-Legal Options
The restructuring of the world political and economic order is creating new opportunities for those willing to...
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Cultivate High-Value Workers Traits Your Law-Education May Not Have Provided
Your law school education prepares you adequately for jobs in non-legal fields. But its strict regimen and...
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How to Give a Real Argument to a Judge
While there are a sizable number of law school graduates who are struggling to find any job, another group has...
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Real Practice of Law
Ready for some good news? Okay. The practice of law can be really fun. Challenging. Interesting. Even...
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What Legal Employers Want
If you are, as I was, one of those law students "in the middle of your class", naturally and understandably,...
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The Bar Exam and Beyond
Law school teaches you to read cases, spot issues, and make reasonable arguments about those issues. You are...
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What Does the Sole Practitioner Need?
Strategies that work with sole practitioners are ones that demonstrate an understanding of their particular...
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Attorney Success: Congratulations! You're Hired
It's your first day on the job and you're excited. You will probably want to start right in and go to work,...
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Legal Writing Styles that Lawyers Must Master
To write effectively, you must communicate effectively. Remember the discussion between the March Hare, the...
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The Legal Purpose of an Appellate Brief
A former colleague once commented that an appellate brief is a document written by a disgruntled practitioner...
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Fees Lifeline of Law Practice
Fees are the lifeline of law practice. The relentless pressure of meeting overhead expenses and providing for...
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How to Make Law Practice Lucrative
One wag has stated that the best way for a lawyer to obtain new clients is to run well for an important public...
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Job Options: New Law Grads
If you plan to set up your own law office alone or with some other young lawyers, you can shorten the time...
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Overhead Ratios of a Law Firm
The typical law office spends 45 to 50 percent of the fee dollar on the expenses of operating the office....
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Can an Attorney Put on Manger’s Mantle?
Can an attorney put the mantle of a manager? It may sound strange. But in certain situations he has to put on...
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Law Partnerships & Agreements
About half of existing law partnerships does not have written partnership agreements. In older firms,...
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The Dynamics of Starting Law Practice
It is difficult to start law practice, but there has never been a really good time, and there never will be....
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Legal Services – Planning & Marketing
When many lawyers think-or talk-about practicing law, they are considering a lawyer or a firm of lawyers who...
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Behind Every Lawyer there’s an Assistant
Behind every group of lawyers stands another group of vitally important assistants who often present the...
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Law Practice: How to Attract Clients
Every lawyer sells himself to those he meets, and especially to his clients. Ethical salesmanship is essential...
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Law Firms – Marketing Plan Must Be Unique
The objective of marketing is to bring desired clients to the firm, and to keep them there. Marketing is both...
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Billing: Lawyers Must Know How to Impress Clients
A majority of the complaints that bar association grievance committees are called upon to hear involve clients...
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What Type of Personality Traits Are Needed to Help a Family Lawyer Succeed?
Many of the legal professionals quickly point out that choosing family law means a great deal of client...
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Balancing Family and Work in a Legal Career
Like everyone else, most family law practitioners struggle to balance their professional and personal lives....
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Tips for Lawyers for Using Defendant Conversations and Signed Statements
If you plan to use a cassette recorder to tape witness’ statements directly from the telephone, make sure...
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