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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 the Best Actors and Attorneys Are Exactly Alike

Learn what the best attorneys and actors both have that enables them to rise above their peers.....

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How Attorneys Destroy Their Careers by Choosing the Wrong Law Firms

You should never join a law firm just for the prestige, benefits or compensation offered. Instead, look deeper at the f....

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How to Be a Rich and Famous Attorney: The Only Two Ways to be a Rich and Famous Attorney

If you want to be wealthy or famous in your career as an attorney, you need to possess these two attributes.....

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Why Going In-house Is Often the Worst Decision a Good Attorney Can Ever Make

Learn why the belief that going in-house is a good career move is completely wrong and what going in-house actually doe....

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Five Class-Based Rules That Determine Attorney Success or Failure

Success in the legal profession is not determined by skill alone. There are also socio-economic and class-based barrier....

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Four Union-Like Rules Attorneys Must Observe if You Are Going to Succeed Working in a Law Firm: If You Do Not Follow These Rules You Will Fail

Learn the four rules that make all law firms similar to blue collar unions and what you must do to stay employed by the....

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How to Succeed in the Practice of Law

In reviewing the careers of countless attorneys, I believe I have come to understand what makes certain attorneys succee....

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Why You Should Quit Practicing Law

Learn if you are the sort of attorney who should quit practicing law—you may very well be.....

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Seven Reasons Why Practicing Law Might Be More Stressful Than Spending 18 Months in a POW Camp

If you are going to practice law, you need to be prepared for excessive stress. Practicing in a firm requires a certain....

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Why Every Attorney Needs to Apply to a Lot of Places (and Not Give Up) When Rejected

Learn why it is so important to market yourself to a lot of law firms in your job search, despite what you might hear t....

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How Law Firms Choose to Interview and Hire Attorneys and Law Students: The Only Three Questions Law Firms Evaluate Applicants By

A law firm is only concerned with these three questions when they evaluate applicants. Learn more about these three que....

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Take This GIFT For Granted and Your Legal Career Will Be Dead: Why Attorneys Must Always Have Access to Lots of Work and Be Busy

Most attorneys don't understand the number one factor that will ensure their career survival. Find out what it is in th....

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10 Factors That Matter to BigLaw Firms More Than Your Law School

There are far more important factors law firms look at if you want to practice law for a long period of time with a goo....

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A Comprehensive Guide to Working with a Legal Recruiter

What a Legal Recruiter Is and What One Can Do for YouSelecting a Legal RecruiterGetting the Most Out of a Legal Recruite....

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The #1 Attorney Career Killer That Attorneys Are Never Taught

Learn about this devastating attorney career killer that attorneys are never taught in law school. Don’t let your car....

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