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Three Tips if You’re Always Late
Have you ever noticed that some people in your life are always late? Maybe it’s you! In your personal life, your friends and family may chalk this up to the price of admission to having a relationship with you. In your professional life, getting a reputation as...
Lacking Attention to Detail?
Three ways to improve your attention to detail today One of the more common pieces of feedback junior lawyers receive is that they are lacking attention to detail. If this is you, my prior post here gives some tips for improving your attention to detail when working...
Do This One Thing Before Starting Your First Job
Photo by Cadeau Maestro on Pexels.com I recently wrote an article for the American Bar Association's After the Bar blog, sharing one key task to complete before starting your first legal job (or at any point in your career, really). It'll help you brainstorm and plan...
Lawyer Movies to Match Your Mood
In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, there’s a famous line: “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers!” Setting aside all the great substantive work lawyers do, the world would be a far less entertaining place without us! Those of us who practice law know just...
Free Webinar: Law Firm Life
You graduated from law school, took the bar exam, and are now enjoying some time off before beginning your legal career in earnest. If you're headed to a law firm to work as a junior associate this fall, tune in to my free, 30-minute webinar covering what you need to...
My Two Favorite Questions to Ask During a Law Firm Interview
To get a summer associate position during OCI interviews, you’ll be participating in potentially dozens of interviews at different firms and multiple interviews at each firm for which you get a callback. Most interviewers leave time at the end for questions, and this...
Let’s Talk Law Firm Culture: How Can You Figure Out a Law Firm’s Culture While Interviewing?
It’s getting to be that time of year – law students around the country participate in OCI interviews, which tend to focus on big law firms. When I decided to go through OCI, I knew almost nothing about law firm life, and absolutely nothing about how to assess law firm...
Five Ways to End Your Summer Associate Position on a High Note
Photo by Christina Morillo on Pexels.com Many summer associate programs will be wrapping up at the end of this month. If you joined my free webinar and have been following along the blog all summer, I’m confident you’ve been doing a great job and have made a strong...
