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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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How Lawyers Can Change Their Practice Area in a Law Firm

Listen to This Podcast on:Many attorneys seem to choose the prestige of a law firm without considering the practice area....

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Practicing Entertainment Law: Exposing the Truth Behind the Glamour Myth

To work in entertainment law you must have experience in intellectual property cases and complex business litigation.You....

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How Attorneys Can Network: Why Networking is Essential to Attorney Success

Listen to This Podcast on:One thing that many attorneys do not know is that the most successful attorneys are "networked....

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The Importance of Attorneys Being Well-Liked in their Jobs: Why Others Must Like You for You to Get Ahead

One of the most persistent problems attorneys practicing law have is their failure to collaborate and learn from the oth....

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How an LL.M. Degree Can Make You More Marketable

Many attorneys spend tens of thousands of dollars to obtain an LL.M. in a particular discipline after they have graduate....

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Why Attorneys Need to Get Out of the Office and Get Involved in the Legal Community

For many attorneys, especially those in large law firms, life as an attorney can seem pretty solitary. There are, of cou....

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The Truth and Nothing but the Truth?But Not the Whole Truth

Although the practice of law has undergone enormous changes in the past two decades, one thing remains constant: integri....

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Why a Law Degree is Actually a Business License: Why Attorneys Should Treat their Legal Careers Like a Small Business

Listen to This Podcast on:One of the main things about the law that people don't understand is that it's a business.Some....

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Turnaround for Transactional Lawyers

I think nearly every attorney in the United States would agree that the past few years have been difficult times for ass....

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Narcissistic Entitlement Syndrome among Attorneys: Why Narcissism Destroys Young Attorney Careers

Many young attorneys can suffer from a conceited belief of themselves.They in fact become narcissists.While confidence a....

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Why Networking Is Essential to Your Success as an Attorney

Why Networking is Essential to Your Success as an AttorneyOne thing that many attorneys do not know is that the most suc....

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Today's Hot Property: Real Estate Associates

Five or more years into the real estate boom, real estate lawyers are still a hot commodity in Chicago law firms, maybe ....

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A Letter to BCG Attorney Search Recruiters from Harrison Barnes: Thoughts on BCG Attorney Search

As we grow and our organization experiences various changes, I think it is important that everyone here understand what ....

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Off-the-Record Interview Tips from Law Firm Interviewers

INTERVIEW TIPS FROM THE INTERVIEWERS - FOR LATERAL ATTORNEYSPractical, Real-World Job Interview Advice and Tips from Was....

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How Attorneys Can Relocate and Practice Law Internationally and Overseas: The Best Practice Areas and Locations to Practice Law Overseas

Once you get out of law school, you may envision yourself working in a large lavish downtown office building that overlo....

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