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Career Builders: People
 A Lawyer’s Guide to Hosting Better Meetings
There are many excellent ways to take charge of meetings — it can be a simple yet powerful way to improve your professional image. Your clients and colleagues will thank you for it.
When Contests Become Personal: How You Should Respond
From time to time you may encounter troublesome “personalities.” Don’t allow yourself to be distracted by them.
Five reasons not to attack opposing counsel in pleadings
As satisfying as that might be, there is nothing to be gained by attacking opposing counsel in pleadings. Below are five good reasons not to do it.
Take Your Practice to the Next Level: Hire a Coach
A growing number of lawyers have discovered personal coaching as a highly effective way to improve their careers. Since the key elements of a lawyer’s career are uniquely individual — personality, ambitions, preferences and goals — it makes sense that individual, tailored coaching is the most effective route to get there quickly.
See also – Coaching 2.0: An Interactive, Involved Approach
See also – Lawyer Coaching Will Boost ROY – Return on Yourself
The seven-year law degree
There are a couple of well-known phenomena about legal careers that, when juxtaposed, might give us better insight into how lawyers enter the profession.
Young Rainmakers: Law Firms Must Look to the Next Generation
The financial health of most law firms relies on the efforts of a few rainmakers – lawyers who are able to keep the new-business pipeline flowing while their colleagues focus on the practice of law. Who will make the rain fall at these firms when it comes time for the traditional rainmakers to retire or move on?
Making a Graceful Exit: Transitioning Key Clients to the Next Generation
As the population ages, law firms need to find ways to help their senior leaders retire gracefully. At some point, any lawyer must confront the issue of transitioning the practice to others. Successful transitions come as the result of thoughtful planning that smooth the path into life beyond the law.
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