Attorney Career Advice

• With one question, a good employer can quickly and efficiently eliminate those who might otherwise be a perfect fit for a position—and they should.
• Anyone who knows what they are doing should not be hiring you if you do not have concrete reasons for working.
• Most people do not have good enough reasons for applying to positions.
• Accordingly, they do far worse in their careers and lives than they might otherwise.

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• I have personally reviewed over 500,000 resumes of attorneys and law students who have applied to work with BCG Attorney Search.
• I’ve gotten jobs for thousands of attorneys by fixing their resumes.
• There are specific patterns in people who get the most interviews and jobs, and those that do not.
• If you want to get a position, you can listen to my advice, or ignore it at your own peril.

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One of the strangest things that I see regularly is attorneys who make sexual orientation, politics, religion, and social activism part of their job search. I honestly do not understand why they do this. In the best cases, it ends up creating far fewer opportunities for you in the market. In most cases, it can do profound damage to your job search. This sort of stuff will doom you. READ MORE >

SUMMARY

• When hiring people, Warren Buffett recommends three main qualities to look for in a person - Intelligence, energy, and integrity. Integrity being the highest of the three.
• These are qualities we would all want in an attorney if were to hire one for ourselves.
• Do attorneys have these three essential qualities innate in them? If yes, how do we identify them in our day to day dealings with legal professionals? Read on to find out.

One of Warren Buffett’s most memorable quotes relates to hiring the right people. I have heard it passed around and spoken about by many business leaders throughout the years, including the former head of Disney, Michael Eisner, and the current head of Disney, Bob Iger. READ MORE >

“Death in life is a mode of existence in which one has ceased all play; there are no further striving for titles. All competitive engagement with others has been abandoned. For some, though not for all, death in life is a misfortune, the resigned acceptance of one’s loser status, a refusal to hold any title up for recognition.”

     Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse READ MORE >

Listen to How Any Attorney Can Get a $100+ Million Book of Business, Become a Partner in a Major Law Firm, or Start a Successful Business and Retire Whenever They Want Podcast

Most attorneys will never reach their goals.

There are two keys to succeeding at anything—although it is a bit more complicated than that, which I will explain shortly. READ MORE >

Listen to Why You Might be Better Off Being an Average Attorney Than Trying to Be an Exceptional One Podcast

If you are reading this, you are probably an average attorney.

Do not despair—most attorneys are average. If you are not an average attorney now, the odds are that you will be a mediocre attorney in the future. If you are an average attorney now, it is likely that you will always be an average attorney. You may start out as someone who seems destined to be an exceptional attorney, but end up an average one. Alternatively, you may begin your career with expectations that you will be an average attorney and end up an exceptional one. READ MORE >

Listen to What to Do if You Are Fired as an Attorney from a Law Firm (or Worried You Are Going to Lose Your Job) Podcast

At some point in their careers, most attorneys get fired or are in danger of getting fired from their law firm jobs. READ MORE >

All attorneys strive for success in their law firms and want more responsibility, complex work, and greater recognition. However, there is a price to pay for accomplishing your goals. The stress of law firm life may cause many health problems, including premature aging, disease, or even early death. This article discusses several ways the well-being of attorneys suffers from the constant demands of law firm life. READ MORE >

• In order to experience any form of meaningful success inside of a law firm, you need to protect your brand and be defined in a way that is positive and not negative.
• Protecting your brand is as simple as avoiding people, places and things that are likely to mess with your reputation—ensuring you have the best brand possible.
• Succeeding in a law firm requires not only creating a good brand, but also maintaining that brand.
• If establishing a good brand is impossible or unlikely in your current firm, this is often the best reason to move law firms.

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Do you know what an of counsel attorney is? Read this article to find out the role(s) of counsel attorneys play within law firms. READ MORE >