“Get to Know Your Boss & Clients Better” & Other Tips for More Success

business development, career management

I’ve seen many of these 14 Ways to be Better at Your Job in 2013 work for my lawyer clients and friends in the last few years.  Read the full Forbes article, add a client focus to several and adapt them to your law practice or career.  These suggestions aren’t...

Career & Life Management: “Have Fun” & a Few Other “Rules”

career management

When I coached girls softball in a rec & ed league, I had a few favorite phrases.  At the end of the season I included them on a certificate for each player.  I called them Rules for Softball, Rules for Life.  As we end one year and start another, we might all...

Choose Something: Business Development Actions for the Last Week of December

business development

Does your law practice calendar look low in billable hours the next two weeks?  If so, use that time to check at least one more business development action off your list for 2012.  Yes, I am talking about that long list of ideas you had for this year that were sure to...

Three Practical Law Practice Management Questions

business development, practice & time management

This week at lunch a very experienced, successful lawyer friend and I talked about his law practice and my lawyer coaching practice.  He asked me three simple questions that law practice management articles frequently address.  These questions aren’t just fodder...

Dressing for the Part – a Law School Dean’s Take on Job Interview Attire

career management

Ignore the pink ties in the photo at left and take a look at Michigan Law School Dean of Admissions Sarah Zearfoss’s blog post on what lawyers and law students should wear for a law job interview.  She unscientifically surveyed her contacts and adds her own...