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Attorney Career Strategy: How the Water Rule Helps Lawyers Make Better Job Decisions

Attorneys often make career decisions based on prestige, compensation, fear, convenience, or the expectations of others. But the most successful legal careers are rarely built on impulse. They are built by understanding where opportunity flows, where demand is strongest, and where an attorney’s sk....

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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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Why Money Is the Dumbest Thing Any Attorney Should Focus on When Joining a Law Firm: How Attorneys Destroy their Happiness and Legal Careers by Focusing on Money

Learn why money should never be your first focus when you are trying to decide which law firm you should join.....

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Seven Areas Where We Get Our Sense of Self as an Attorney

My sense of who I was and what I could achieve was simply not at a high level. At some point, however, based on encourag....

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Why a Strong Sense of Self Is the Most Important Thing You Can Possess as an Attorney

Once, when I was around 17 years old, I was sitting in a car with a friend of mine, waiting for another group of kids. M....

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Why You Should Keep Inside Your Concerns about Life-Work Balance as an Attorney

Concerned about things like work-life balance? That’s fine; just keep it inside. The employer needs to believe that wh....

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Why You Should Never “Wing It” in an Attorney Interview No Matter How Good You Are with People

Remember: interview preparation is absolutely essential in today’s job market. Do not allow yourself to fall into the ....

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Why You Should Think about Specific Results Achieved in Past Jobs

Employers are also deeply interested in your level of productivity. Some people show up to a job, work hard, and accompl....

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Top 10 Reasons Most General Practice Firms Have No Idea How to Hire and Evaluate Patent Attorneys

Patent attorneys are in higher demand in today's technology-driven world, but some firms are still not sure how to hire....

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The One Key Goal You Must Focus on During the Attorney Interview Process

Keep in mind that no one is saying that if you apply certain principles, you will get every job you seek. You must be re....

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The Biggest Attorney Interview Mistakes

What are the interview mistakes attorneys must avoid at all costs?....

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The Five Things Employers Really Want to Know during a Law Firm Interview

SUMMARY:Maximizing your chances of landing your dream job hinges on effectively answering five crucial questions that ev....

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Is there Any Point for Attorneys Working Their Tail Off Inside of Law Firms, Being Abused and Worrying About Career Security?

Summary: Why is it that so many attorneys feel helpless and unfulfilled?Lately I have heard many attorneys ask "What's t....

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Why Lawyers Should Never Quit an Attorney Job Without Another Legal Job Lined Up: Law Firms Will Think You Were Fired, Crazy, Unmotivated and More

Considering leaving your law firm? You must be prepared to make a transition to another firm before you go. Otherwise, ....

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Why You Should (and Should Not) Quit the Practice of Law

So many attorneys are leaving the practice of law to go into alternative careers. Find out if you should leave the law ....

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Everything You Know About Finding a Legal Job Is Wrong: You've Likely Fallen for the Worst Piece of Attorney Job Search Advice Ever

Find out why you should avoid this attorney job search advice at all costs if you want to do well in your career as an ....

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How to Beat the System and Stop Being a Profit-Driven Workaholic Attorney

Learn how to enjoy your career as an attorney and achieve long-term career success in your legal career.....

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