Job Search Tip #2 for Lawyers – Start Working For Free*

career management

She had quit her job as a lawyer six months earlier. She had intended to make a transition into a different kind of legal practice, but she still did not have a job. He was more than a year out of law school and did not have a job. Another lawyer started worrying...

Job Search Tip #1 for Lawyers – Stop Applying For Everything

career management

She was mad. She had been rejected for a job as an associate that she didn’t want, doing work she knew she wouldn’t like and probably getting paid 40% less than her previous salary. She didn’t understand why she hadn’t received an offer after...

How Not to Conduct a Job Search (Lawyers & Law Students)

career management

1. Apply to every legal job posting you see. 2. Spend all of your free time searching online for job postings. 3. Mail your resume to every law firm in the area. 4. Apply for lawyer jobs you don’t want. 5. Ask for generic help. 6. Have no LinkedIn profile or just a...

Judge Stephen Murphy Brings Corner Bar Concept to Life

career management

“Get to know other lawyers in the ‘bar’ and build relationships throughout your career.” U.S. District Court Judge Stephen J. Murphy III brought the Coach’s Corner Bar concept to life this week at the Detroit Metropolitan Bar...

Listen Up, Lawyers: 5 Rules For Really Listening (per David Winter)

business development, career management, practice & time management

Communicating includes listening. Communicating with your clients, partners, other colleagues, other lawyers, potential clients etc., includes listening to them. Since communicating is a relationship skill, when you improve your listening, you will improve your...

Your Year In Review and 2011 Preview

career management, practice & time management

What are you most proud of from 2010? When I asked my lawyer clients this question last week and this week, almost all of them said they are most proud of how they have taken more control of their practice, career or work day this year. And almost all of them say they...