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BigLaw vs. Boutique Pay by Practice Area: Which Pays More?

For many attorneys, the compensation question starts with a familiar choice: BigLaw or boutique? On paper, BigLaw often looks like the obvious winner. Large firms have public salary scales, structured bonuses, elite clients, and brand-name prestige. But the answer becomes more nuanced when attorneys....

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Beat Attorney Burnout: Find Happiness in Legal Practice

SUMMARY:This is a transcript from one of my webinars titled How Attorneys Can Beat Burnout and Find Happiness in Legal Practice.The focus is on the critical human need for positive feedback and encouragement to sustain a successful and fulfilling legal career. The webinar explains how toxic or unsup....

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Attorney Career Success: Optimizing Your Process for Lasting Results

SUMMARY:This is a transcript from one of my webinars titled Attorney Career Success: Focus on Process, Not Results. The focus is on how shifting one's mindset from obsessing over immediate outcomes, like money or prestige, to building sustainable professional processes can dramatically transform a l....

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Building a Profitable Legal Career: The Power of Repeatable Work

SUMMARY:This is a transcript from one of my webinars titled The Profitability Process: Why the Most Valuable Legal Work is Work That Repeats Itself. The focus is on the critical importance of securing "repeatable work" to ensure long-term career stability and success in the legal profession. Rather ....

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Attorney Career Trends: What the Fastest-Growing Practice Areas Mean for Your Future

The legal profession is changing quickly, and attorneys who understand where demand is rising will have a major advantage in the years ahead. BCG Attorney Search’s report, The 20 Hottest and Fastest-Growing Practice Areas for Attorneys, arrives at exactly the right time. It highlights the practice....

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Striving for Professional Mediocrity

Accepting mediocrity in yourself is the only real way to achieve balance in your life. If you are a lawyer in private pr....

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Is Anyone Out There Happy?

The media has tremendous power to magnify economic trends. When dot-com mania ruled, we read about lawyers and other pro....

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How to Know When You Should Stay in Your Law Firm Job or Move to a New Law firm Job

In the first of a two-part series, Claudia Spielman, BCG Attorney Search recruiter, uses her own experience to guide you....

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The Power of Self-Awareness and Positive Thinking during Your Job Search

As a legal recruiter, I spend my days speaking to lawyers about their job transitions and speaking to law firms about my....

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How Golf Found Me

I'll admit it. I am one of a scarce breed. I am a female golfer in Manhattan. How did that happen to me? And how can....

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How Important is it to Know Your 'Self' Before the Job Market Knows You?

It is not a mistake—quoting the word ''self'' in the title of this article. I put such word in quotes for a reason. ....

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In Search of Work/Life Balance

Several months ago, I went on vacation to Hawaii with my family. After we had been there several days, my wife surprised....

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Is Lifestyle the New Black? A Recruiter Talks About the Concept of the Lifestyle Firm, and What It Means for the Next Wave of Associate Hirings

As Firms Begin to Renew Hiring Initiatives, a New Vernacular Must Take HoldFor those lawyers who have practiced through ....

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How to Ensure Career Satisfaction and Happiness as an Attorney

If you believe what you read in the popular and legal press, career satisfaction is woefully lacking for most attorneys.....

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The HAPPENING: The Quiet Unsettling of U.S. Lawyers in the Face of a Tough Economy

Over the past seven, turning eight, months of 2008, I have noticed an odd ''happening'' on the East Coast. My recognitio....

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Weathering Uncertainty

There is no denying the national mood has shifted towards the dark side. It is impossible to escape the reports of natur....

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Finding Work/Life Balance

Yes, indeed. The eternal question. The oft-asked inquiry of young and old attorneys alike: How do I find a work/life bal....

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How Attorneys Can Achieve Career Satisfaction and Growth

Jim was a litigation associate at a major Boston law firm. Soon after he started as a first year associate, he realized ....

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Battered Associate Syndrome

So you've had many less-than-stellar experiences as an associate at your law firm. You've spent countless all-nighters o....

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Battered and Bewildered? Maybe It's Time to Rethink Priorities, Repair your Self-Esteem, or Even Look for a New Job

Brian was a young attorney who appeared to have it all. He graduated from a top law school with top grades, landed a pre....

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