Attorney Career Success: Optimizing Your Process for Lasting Results

Welcome. Today's webinar is something where I'm going to tell some fairly personal stories. We'll get started. This is about what I think is one of the more important topics. It relates to what you need to do to get a job, what you need to do to advance, and a whole bunch of other things that if you're able to understand today, it can make a meaningful and very powerful difference in your career. I hope it does because I'm going to tell you about how I failed very early in my career, and then the things that I did to overcome that and become very successful in the legal profession when everything looked like that was the last thing in the world that was going to happen. Give me one second here. Some of the realizations that I made ultimately changed the entire direction of my career.

When I say that I changed the entire direction of my career, what I'd like you to understand is that even though I have a lot of good things to say right now about how I did well, the start of my career in the legal profession was basically all about rejection, getting fired from jobs, not doing well, and really hitting rock bottom. I'm going to talk a lot today about failure, rejection, and how I was able to reinvent myself when I understood this whole idea of process. Before I understood that, I felt really that something was wrong with me. I, like many of you, felt lots of rejection in the legal profession, whether it was applying for jobs or applying to law school, and all sorts of things that made me feel very bad about myself, and I was defining myself based on a lot of these things that happened, as you may be.

There are many ways individuals experience setbacks in this field:

• People that don't go to the law school they want to.

• People that don't do as well as they want in law school.

• People that don't get the jobs that they want to.

• People that are unemployed.

• People that have lost jobs or can't get jobs.

   

There's so much rejection in the legal profession, and there's ways to get around that and actually do very well. For a lot of people, they feel that these setbacks mean you're failing at life. You often tie your self-worth to outcomes, meaning getting a certain result, getting a job, getting into a law school, or making a certain amount of money. People literally will tie their self-worth to the jobs they have, the firms that they work at, and whether or not they advance. If things go well, they feel good about themselves, but if they don't, they feel badly and ashamed. That's one reason the legal profession is such a difficult place to be in, because there is so much rejection. There are so many setbacks for most attorneys at every stage of your career. For most people, what I'd like to say is if you go to law school and you pass the bar, anybody can be successful. The way you become successful is you don't start focusing on the actual results you want, meaning a certain amount of money or a certain law school. You start understanding the whole idea of process.
 

Early Career Setbacks and Tying Self-Worth to Results

I had something bad that happened to me very early in my legal career. I wanted to go to law school, and I got very sick my first semester of college. I didn't end up taking the LSAT until March, and then my results came out in late April. By that time, most law schools were already full. I didn't do that well on the LSAT compared to my fraternity brothers. Where I was living in the fraternity, most of them were getting ninety-eight or ninety-nine percent on the test. I didn't do anywhere near that, but I had much better grades than them, and I was embarrassed. When the scores came in the mail, everyone opened it, and they made fun of me. This was my introduction to the legal profession, not feeling good about my LSAT scores.

After that happened, I applied to law schools, and almost every single one of them was full. I got wait-listed at the University of Virginia, but I didn't feel like I was going to get in there either. I ultimately got into the school right before school started, which was good. Think about feeling like I did, went to college and didn't get into the law schools. I worked as hard as I could, but I didn't have the success that I wanted to have early in my career of getting into all the schools I wanted to. I had been sick, and that's a good reason for probably not doing as well on tests. I practically fell asleep with really bad mono. At the same time, I wanted the result of having a really good score and getting into every law school I applied to. I didn't get that result early in my career, and I didn't feel good about myself. I didn't feel good about not getting a good score on the LSAT. I didn't feel good about not getting into all the law schools I wanted to. I started feeling like a failure because I was tying everything to a certain outcome. When I eventually got into law school, I was incredibly excited. I felt, "This is great. Now I'm going to be able to go to law school, do well, and make a lot of money." That was the way a lot of people at law school spoke. They spoke about going to a great law school and making money.

I got into law school, and I was in a position where I actually didn't like law school too much. I felt the people were very competitive. It didn't make me happy. It's a nice law school, and there are a lot of nice people there. My only desire to be there wasn't to learn necessarily about the law. I didn't have a lot of passion; it was because I could make a lot of money when I got out. That's literally how I was thinking. I didn't develop skills for studying the way I should have. I wasn't thinking in terms of long-term growth. I was really just focused on the outcomes that I would get. I wasn't thinking, "How do I study and do really well?" I was thinking more, "I just get through this, and I make a good living."

When I started my second year of school, I got a job as a summer associate, and it was the same thing. I didn't like the position very much, and I wasn't that excited about the people I was working with. I wasn't happy doing the work, but I thought I could make a lot of money. I was at a big firm in New York, and I thought it was a way to make a lot of money. I wasn't concentrating on the process of doing all the things that you need to do to be a good summer associate, which is getting along with people, doing really good work, and concentrating on that, not just thinking, "I'm here so I can get an offer." I ended up being okay, but I didn't do things the way that I should have. I wasn't in a position where I was doing the best work and getting along with people the way I should have. I was thinking more in terms of getting through it and making money. I still wasn't thinking in terms of what I needed to do.
 

 

Hitting Rock Bottom in the Legal Profession

I will talk to you a little bit now about another process-oriented thing and how I was able to fix the problems with my job, law school, confidence, and not feeling like I was going to get the results that I wanted. A lot of things happened to me next that were very problematic. I got a clerkship with a federal judge in Michigan after my third year of law school, and I thought this was a great thing that would help me in my career and make me successful as an attorney, but it was the same thing I needed to get through. It was supposed to be a two-year clerkship, and towards the end of the first year, I was probably going to get fired. I was called to an office, and it looked like the talk was going there, so I quit. It was a very low point for me in my life. I had told the firm in New York that I had a two-year clerkship, but then I lost my job after one year. I didn't want to go back to them and say it was one year because I got fired, so I didn't feel good about that. I hadn't done my clerkship the way I should have. I was not learning how to work closely with a judge and to do everything the way he wanted.

When I got fired, I was in a really bad place. I was in a small apartment in Michigan, I didn't have a job, and I hadn't taken the bar because it was supposed to be a two-year clerkship. I had a lot of debt from law school, I was planning on getting married in August, and I had lost my job in late May or June. My fiancée thought my career was over. She thought she was marrying a lawyer and ended up leaving me, and we canceled the wedding. I was sitting in Michigan, confused about what I was going to do, how I could possibly get out of this, and how I could get a job.

When I was interviewing for firms as a second-year attorney, I did everything wrong. I would talk about this asphalt business I had, or papers I had written in college, and I wasn't interviewing well. My resume wasn't good; it talked all about this asphalt business and papers, and I wasn't focused. My interviewing skills were not good. If I sent letters to firms to try to get interviews, nothing strong came out of that. I would send four or five-page letters. I ended up getting a job as a summer associate because a person that interviewed me was best friends with my best friend in Michigan's mother from college. Once that came up, he called her, she said really nice things about me, and I got a job that way. If that hadn't happened, I wouldn't have gotten a job as a summer associate.

Put yourself in my position: I had gone to law school, didn't like it, and wasn't excited about it. I got on law review and did some other stuff, but I did a lot of things wrong. I didn't do well as a summer associate, got fired from my first job, and didn't interview well with firms. I was sitting there with nothing to offer. No bar exam, out of school a year, no job, living in a small town in northern Michigan, and feeling like my legal career was over. I didn't think I would be able to get to the level that I wanted to in terms of getting into firms. I didn't feel good because the outcomes I was getting were not good. I was not getting positive feedback from my summer job, when I was interviewing, when I tried to apply to law schools, or with my grades. Since applying to law school, it had been lots of negative feedback. Each defeat pounded away my confidence and made me feel not so good about myself. Getting all these bad outcomes is a depressing thing that can mess with your self-worth.

 

Reflection and the Shift to Process

I was sitting in northern Michigan, didn't know what I was going to do, and assumed I would have to go back and be an asphalt contractor. I got into a space where I wanted to reflect on what I had done, analyze my failures, and see patterns. It really came about because I didn't have much to do. For almost a week, I would buy a six-pack of beer every night, and even though I didn't smoke, I was smoking. I got to the point where I really needed to pick myself up, figure out what was happening, and understand why I hadn't achieved what I wanted to in my career. I got out a notebook and started writing everything that I had learned and everything that had happened.

When I was working for the judge, I was helping him screen applicants. I was seeing how those people interviewed, remembering how people interviewed in law school, and looking at resumes of applicants. I was watching how my co-clerk worked, her habits, and how she interacted with the judge. I started remembering how people were working in this New York law firm. I saw how people did really well in their careers and everything that I had done wrong. Taking apart everything that I had done and learning how I could fix it was eye-opening. I understood what I had done wrong in interviews, with my resume, with letters I sent out, and when I was working. I realized that most of what I had been concentrating on was just getting a good job or making as much money as I could, which had nothing to do with being an exceptional young attorney, doing the best possible work, being detail-oriented, and being respectful to the people interviewing me.

To be successful, your approach must change:

• Your resume needs to focus on what people need, not yourself.

• If you want to work in a firm, your resume needs to show that you are very good at your practice area and enthusiastic about it.

• You will get much better results if you focus on what others want rather than listing all your associations and interests.

I was thinking in terms of what I wanted and the result I wanted. The people that are successful are able to do work a certain way and have a process for doing really good work over and over. Successful people have resumes focused on what an employer wants, treat people giving them work a certain way, and continually improve. It doesn't matter where you went to law school; you can always improve and get yourself to a position where you can be very successful.

 

Building Systems for Career Advancement

I did some things that I think are the most important things you can learn. I came from a position where I was completely out of luck, where it looked like my career was probably over, and within four weeks, I went from not having a job and my fiancée leaving me to getting incredible results.

Here are the specific processes I developed:

• I realized my resume had to be short and talk in terms of what the employer wanted.

• I wanted to be a commercial litigator, so I removed things that didn't add to looking like a litigator.

• I just put in one line about my asphalt stuff and talked about all the litigation-related things I had done.

• My resume was very focused, didn't have unnecessary information, and made me look like someone who wanted to be a commercial litigator.

• I learned that the best cover letters just needed to say, "I want to do this, and I think your firm would be awesome for this," rather than being three or four pages long.

• I learned to apply to a lot of firms without regard to whether or not they had openings.

• I printed out the addresses of all the firms in Los Angeles and applied to hundreds of them.

• I learned that I couldn't have a single typo on my resume, and the language needed to be tight and direct.

I built a whole process to be effective. I realized that I needed to market myself much better than other people. I learned how the best people interview and connect with others. I sent out these letters and got calls from several great law firms. Within two weeks, I was interviewing with top Am Law firms in Los Angeles and got positions with several of them. I chose to work at Quinn Emanuel, and they paid to move me from Michigan to Los Angeles, gave me a stipend, a starting bonus, and a clerkship bonus. I received tens of thousands of dollars more than I could have imagined, all from learning how to have processes, apply to places, be enthusiastic, and talk in terms of other people's interests.

I learned all this because I had been in a bad place. I had no bar exam, no job, had been fired, and had bad experiences. Most people in my situation would think the career is not welcoming and quit or settle, thinking they are not entitled to work in major law firms. Sometimes when you are at rock bottom, you think about what you have done wrong and things improve. People that make their resumes focused on their practice area and take off irrelevant information end up getting five to ten times more interviews. You need to be direct. A judge just wants to know if you are right or wrong and doesn't care about irrelevant information.

When I started practicing, I learned you have to be extremely detail-oriented, the language needs to be tight, there can't be typos, and research needs to be good without regurgitating unnecessary information. I learned how to show respect to the people I was working for and appreciation for the opportunity. When I got into law firms, I was doing really good work, focusing on being a very good attorney, not just making money. A lot of people burn out because they are just focused on something that has nothing to do with being exceptional.

You can have a process to continually improve. The process may be meeting with potential clients or calling a certain number of people per day to develop a big book of business. The best people take pride in what they are doing. They don't get involved in office gossip because they have a process. When I applied these processes, everything changed. People liked me, and by the time I was working for two years, I had the equivalent of a $500,000 book of business. The process involved staying in touch with people, having enthusiasm for my work, and caring about clients.

 

The Interviewing Process and Long-Term Vision

The whole process of interviewing is amazing. If you apply to enough jobs with the right resume and don't go overboard in your cover letter, you will get interviews. You need to practice your interviewing. I do interview prep calls almost every day. The most successful people go into interviews and ask, "What could I do to be really successful here? How can I help you?" They act grateful and don't ask questions regarding working remotely or bonuses.

When you are interviewing, you should think of that person as a potential client. A client means someone you are going to protect and help. You need to act just like a partner talking to a potential client: "What is it you need? How can I help? I take this seriously and love my practice area." If you interview like that, you go from getting one out of five jobs to four out of five. You draw attention only to positive things and make yourself look focused on what the law firm needs. You change your resume from having to send out 100 applications to get one interview, to sending out 100 applications and getting 10 or 15 interviews.

If you have a process, people will respect you, employers will respect you, potential clients will respect you, and you will do well. I am willing to bet that if I had applied to positions in Los Angeles doing what I had done before, I probably never would have gotten the job. If I had interviewed the way I had done before, I never would have gotten a job. If you decide to change your processes for where you are working, things will change. People bouncing around jobs every six months is a sign of not having a process. Everything needs to be about process. My entire life changed when I was able to fix the process that created the outcomes.

Are you doing things in a way where you are just thinking about getting the results you want, or are you thinking about your long-term process? Your process for applying to jobs could be as simple as applying on LinkedIn or Indeed, but it should also involve LawCrossing, sending applications to firms that don't have openings, contacting the head of your practice area instead of just HR, and having tailored cover letters. Everything should be thought through over and over again.

There was a guy that was the president of Volkswagen in the United States in 1988. He told me that German car companies take the same model year after year and try to engineer it better and fix little things. American companies would just make the rear look different or change the wheels without a process to improve the actual product. In the 1980s and 90s, companies like Toyota and German companies took away a massive percentage of the US auto market because they created a product that continually improved. Do you have a process for your career to become better, or are you just focused on results?

Many people get into law firms and are just thinking they are there to make as much money as possible. They leave after a year and are unemployed because they didn't have a process to provide the best quality work. It is not because people are not smart that they fail; it is because they don't develop processes for their careers. Without these processes, they feel ashamed, fear, compare themselves to other people, and feel like they are not suited for the legal profession. You don't have to limit yourself based on where you are right now. If you focus on what's not going right or just making enough money, that is probably not in your best interest.

Processes appear in everything. Couples who spend 10 minutes each night talking about their day have their odds of getting divorced go down by four or five times. Professional sports teams have processes for team building, lifting weights, and diets. Wherever you are right now, your current situation is in no way your final situation. It doesn't matter how old you are or what has happened in the past. Your current results are only there because of your processes. Your next round of results will change depending on the processes you decide to implement. Question everything you are doing, the quality of work you are doing, your resume, and how you interview. Nothing has anything to do with your intelligence or background.
 

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Questions and Answers

 

Best Entry-Level Jobs

Question: What are the best entry-level jobs for law students and recent law graduates?

Typically, you have different career paths that you can go on. If you want to go on a career path where you're going to work in a law firm, I think that working in a law firm is probably the best entry-level type of job. Law firms work for paying clients, specialize in a practice area, and will train you. They have to provide a certain level of service for people to continue paying. You also learn how to bring in business into the firm. Clerkships are also good if you want to work as a litigator, but in general, working in a law firm is the smartest choice.
 

Lateral Hiring Timelines

Question: How long does a lateral hiring process usually take at law firms, and what can attorneys do to avoid delays?

It depends on the law firm, how much they need someone right away, and how many people they are interviewing. Sometimes you can get hired for a lateral position in a few days after applying, and other times it can take a month or two. It depends on how the market is doing and if you are in a large market versus a small market. It's usually easier for an attorney with two to five years of experience to get a position than an attorney with more experience.
 

Explaining Layoffs and Short In-House Tenures

Question: I lost my job a year ago due to a layoff. Should I note that on my resume? I worry the length of time in-house (1.5 years) was too short, and people may impute negative things to me. I am getting nervous that I'm not going to be employed again.

You will get a job again. One and a half years is a good length of time and means the work you were doing was good enough that they kept you around. Getting fired from or laid off from an in-house position is very common. When you are working in-house, you are a cost center as opposed to a profit center. If they feel like they can save money by not having you do the work, they may let you go, or new CEOs want their own people. You should approach companies that are the same type of company you were at and apply to law firms that have that type of role. You should do a search all over the country and not limit yourself to one geographic area.
 

Handling Law Firm Job Offers

Question: A firm made me an offer. They are upset that I didn't immediately accept. Is it worth pursuing this law firm?

If you need a job and it is a good offer, you should take it. If you don't need this job, you certainly don't need to take it. When law firms make offers, accepting it very quickly is in your best interest because they want to feel that you really like them and think it's a good fit. If you take time accepting an offer, they are going to think this person doesn't really want to work here. A law firm that is interested in hiring you is a good place to potentially work because it is usually a sign that they have a lot of work.
 

Dealing with Academic Setbacks

Question: What should I do if I fail a law school exam or got bad grades my first semester?

There is nothing wrong with failing or getting bad grades your first semester; it is very common. The only thing that may limit you is getting a really good summer associate job. There are plenty of firms that will still hire you even if you got bad grades. Law firms really stop asking about your grades after you have been out for a few years. They just care about the practice area and the work you are doing.
 

Improving Legal Writing Skills

Question: If you just passed the bar and are looking for jobs, what can you do to improve your legal writing and create great writing samples?

If you are trying to get a writing sample, I don't see why you wouldn't use programs like ChatGPT or any AI program to help you improve the writing. I think everybody is doing that. A guy I know who was a partner at a major US law firm started writing his own briefs for his divorce using ChatGPT, and it got everything done in six hours instead of a hundred hours. You can use grammar programs like Grammarly, or ask an AI program how you can improve the writing.
 

Showing Leadership as Support Staff

Question: How can I show leadership as a paralegal or legal assistant without overstepping attorney responsibilities?

The people that were best at that were able to anticipate my needs, be enthusiastic about doing work, and bring back really good quality work as quickly as possible.
 

Partner Succession Planning

Question: How should law firms recruit attorneys to support partner succession planning?

One of the big practice areas where that is happening right now is trust and estates. When recruiting attorneys, tell them that this is a good long-term opportunity because we have partners leaving that are going to leave clients, and that is very attractive.
 

Transitioning to a Plaintiffs Firm

Question: What should attorneys know before moving from defense litigation to a plaintiffs firm?

Many plaintiffs firms do very well and often pay much more than defense litigation firms. In defense, attorneys are billing out by the hour, so the revenue is much more predictable. Plaintiff's attorneys get paid based on the performance of bringing in cases and settling them. Depending on the firm, you may have less employment stability if they are losing cases, but most personal injury firms settle all their cases and have pretty consistent revenue. It is a great niche, and people can do extremely well financially.
 

Law Firm Conflicts Checks

Question: How do law firm conflicts checks affect lateral attorney hiring?

If there are conflicts, typically a law firm won't hire you. In most cases, conflicts are not an issue; they become a problem maybe ten percent of the time. Conflicts tend to be more common with large law firms rather than smaller ones.
 

Building Attorney Talent Pipelines

Question: How can law firms build stronger attorney talent pipelines for hard-to-fill practice areas?

Law firms need to advertise, send unsolicited emails, find people on LinkedIn, and express interest in them. You can use recruiters to do it too, which is the most obvious way.
 

Professional Networking Strategies

Question: How can I build a strong professional network as a lawyer if I dislike traditional networking events?

You may dislike them, but that doesn't mean you can't learn how to do them and consistently go to them. One of the easiest ways for attorneys to get clients is just being seen. If a client sees you and knows what you do, they are much more likely to hire you.

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