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Self-Assessment: Exploring an Alternative Career
Do you find yourself daydreaming about teaching yoga, delivering mail, doing anything but practising law? Maybe you’re in the wrong field. Or maybe you just need a change of scenery. Here’s how to perform a thorough self-assessment to determine if law is the right career for you.

Career Change in a Recession: Is the Grass Greener Outside Your Practice?
In the current economic climate, lawyers may be wondering whether the grass would be greener if they left for another firm, started their own practice, or exited the practice of law altogether. The decision to make such a change should not be taken lightly, and should involve weighing four fundamental considerations...

Leaving your Employment – with Grace
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there's only one good way to leave your employment: with grace.
To Leave or Not to Leave your Law Firm
Leaving a law firm is an emotional process. You must want to do so, and believe you have no other alternative. Even if you are going to another firm, a successful transition will require the traits of an entrepreneur: motivation, acceptance of risk, resiliency, commitment and persistence.

Pink Slip Blues: What to Do if the Recession Costs you your job
Across the country, young lawyers are fearful there’s a pink slip in their future, as law firms downsize in the face of a global recession.