Coping with layoffs at Law Firms
Going to law school used to mean a virtual guarantee of a job when you graduated and passed the bar exam....
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Fed Up with Feedback? Why Feedback Can Save Your Legal Career
In this article Rachelle J. Canter discusses the importance of job performance feedback for attorneys and...
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How Lucrative Is a Career as an Animal Welfare Attorney: Advice by Anna Morrison-Ricordati
In this article animal welfare attorney Anna Morrison-Ricordati discusses the animal welfare legal practice...
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Recession Fears Have Attorneys Asking, ''Am I Next?'': Attorney Layoffs in the Midst of Recession Fears and the Attorney Jobs Outlook for 2008
A weakening economy and recession fears have attorneys concerned about the legal job market. Law firms have...
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How to Become a Successful Civil Litigation Attorney -- The Skills Civil Litigation Attorneys Need for a Successful Legal Career
If you want to be a successful civil litigation attorney, or simply want to boost your career as a civil...
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The Life and Career of an In-House Attorney
Are you overworked? Tired of stressing about your billable requirements? Dissatisfied with the level of...
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Crisis Communications: How to Manage Them Effectively
What will your firm do in the face of an unexpected emergency? Crisis communication plans provide an...
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Handling layoff's in a law firm
When a firm lays off associates, it's usually big news. In New York several prominent firms have laid off...
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Estate Planning: Tips to Know When Entering the Field
According to a recent study, most U.S. citizens haven't made even a simple will, to say nothing of a more...
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Attorneys Kick Addictions with Help from The Other Bar
Stress is a routine part of lawyers' work. In fact, 20% to 25% of lawyers suffer from stress so severe it...
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How "emotion's play a decisive role in the court rooms
At least once in everyone's life there comes a time when a decision is made purely on emotion. Whether it...
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Coworker Cooperation
At one point or another, we all have to go through it: interacting with that one dreaded coworker. Our...
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To Stay or Not to Stay, That is the Question: How to Handle a New Career Opportunity
Shakespeare did not have to deal with this, and my father's generation rarely did either. During my father's...
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Advice by Bruce Rabin, M.D., Ph.D on how to reduce stress at workplace
Let's face it; we all have some sort of stress to deal with in our everyday lives. Sure, we can meditate, hit...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder amongst Attorneys
Imagine driving down the street after a long, grueling day at the firm or office. All you want to do is get...
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The ill effects of plagiarism from the Internet
One of the benefits of being an old fogey is that you get ''perspective.'' ''Getting perspective,'' by the...
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How to Survive and Thrive during an Unplanned Relocation to Join a Future Spouse
Many junior attorneys work incredibly hard for four years to get top grades at first-tier law schools, work on...
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Protect Deployed Parents' Rights
Divorced or separated military parents often lose custody of their children—and sometimes permanently...
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The Opt-In Project: Making the Business Case for Work-Life Balance
The ''Push-Me-Pull-You.'' Remember that fictional character from Dr. Dolittle? It was a wonderful animal...
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Balancing a Legal Career and Caring for a Special Needs Child
Depending on the nature and severity of the disability, many attorneys who are also parents of special needs...
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Making an Exit: How to Quit Your Job with Finesse
Choosing to quit a job to start a new one is a situation that almost every professional must deal with at one...
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Federal Evidentiary Rule Change Creates Records-Management Challenge for Corporate Attorneys
Abstract When it comes to records management in the face of new federal evidentiary rules governing...
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Starting a Law Firm as a Solo Practitioner
Law school prepares you to think like an attorney, but it does not teach you how to run a successful law firm....
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How to overcome the ever growing problem of storage of case files.
Death and taxes used to be the things you could count on. Now there are more. If you're a company doing any...
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Check-list before embarking on a Career path.
We've all been there. You land the perfect job. It's exactly what you've been waiting for. But...there are a...
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Self-Defense for Bullied Employees
Almost half of all employees have been targeted by a workplace bully. According to a March 2007 study by the...
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Conflict in the Workplace: A Closer Look
Consider this: After a slew of interviews, a well-known corporation offers a mid-level managerial post to a...
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This is Not Your Father's (or Mother's) Law Practice: Expert Reveals How and Why Virtual Attorneys Practice ''Their Way''
How do you picture a lawyer in your mind's eye?For most people, the quintessential stereotype is a serious,...
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Eject Your Stress
Ever wish there was an eject button on your body that would make it possible to purge all of the stress that...
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Freedom Quest: Unlocking Career Shackles—The Many Ways Employment Non-Compete Agreements Can Be Rendered Unenforceable
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of working professionals throughout America have signed a non-compete...
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