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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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Should Attorneys and Law Students Send Thank You Letters After Law Firm Interviews? The Benefits and Risks of Thank You Letters

There are pros and cons in any job interviewing process.This is particularly true when interviewing for law firm jobs.Le....

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Banking and Finance

The banking & finance practice refers generally to a practice that serves a wide variety of needs of financiers (the ban....

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy encompasses a practice that spans the rights of debtors and creditors in Chapter 7 liquidations, Chapter 11 r....

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Corporate Practice

Corporate practice generally refers to the representation of companies in the following broad areas: corporate governanc....

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What's the difference between Patent Law, Trademark Law & Other Intellectual Property Practice Areas?

Intellectual property (IP) lawyers deal with inventions, creations, and other intellectual and intangible types of prope....

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IT Litigation, Legal Practice Area

IT litigation refers generally to a practice covering a range of matters. Inaddition to litigating contracts regarding t....

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Labor and Employment, Legal Practice Area

Labor and employment refers generally to a practice that involves companies,corporations, government agencies, or other ....

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Litigation, Legal Practice Area

Litigation attorneys must develop both general skills and specific substantive areas of expertise. General skills includ....

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Real Estate

Real Estate attorneys represent real estate investment trusts (REITs),lenders, developers, landlords, tenants, and buyer....

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Reinsurance

Reinsurance is a form of insurance in which insurers pass on a portion oftheir risk to other insurers, thereby spreading....

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Tax

Although most general practice law firms have a tax department, what thosetax lawyers do may vary quite dramatically fro....

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Your Legal Career as a Small Business

At the outset, it is important to realize that much of what I am saying goes against the traditional view of the law as ....

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Part-time General Counsel

Traditionally, many smaller and earlier stage companies have met their need for legal services by retaining an outside l....

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Salary Wars and Associate Hiring

As a recruiting firm, we talk to both partners and associates at firms in every major legal marketplace on a daily basis....

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The Pros and Cons of Thank You Letters

This feature pits our founder and CEO, Harrison Barnes, against Carey Bertolet, our senior recruiter in the world's larg....

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