business development
It’s Q4 and the law firm is asking you for your business development plan for 2017! Or you keep telling yourself that next year will be the year you really break through! Where’s your plan for that? How will you make that happen? What will help you...
career management
Take this quiz in yesterday’s New York Times. Then consider how a preference for certain kinds of responses may affect your behavior as a lawyer and the questions you ask in your business development activities, your client communications, your arguments to the...
career management
HR consultant Liz Ryan, founder of “Human Workplace”, writes fresh, useful advice columns for people on job searches. The other day she wrote an excellent column on ways to answer the “why do you want to work here” question. She recently wrote...
career management
This recent WSJ article, It Pays to Ask Smart Questions at a Job Interview by Dennis Nishi, rings true with my experience with lawyers and law students preparing for interviews. Many of the lawyers and students I’ve worked with have previously made their...
career management
The end of a year is a perfect time to consider where you have been and where you want to go in your legal career. For some experienced lawyers, it may even be time to “repot” yourself. This January 2014 article from the Stanford Graduate School of...
