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Being a Solo Attorney Is Not the Problem - How You Explain It Is

One of the most common misconceptions I encounter among attorneys is the belief that once they leave a law firm and begin practicing on their own, their chances of returning to a respected law firm become slim or nonexistent.Nothing could be further from the truth.....

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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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Partners, Be Bold!

''Fortune Favors the Bold!''Quoted more often than followed, Virgil's immortal phrase rings truer now than ever as a sou....

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Positioning Yourself for Partnership: Strategies for Senior Associates with Portable Business Making a Lateral Move to a New Firm

A senior associate or ''counsel'' with significant portable business is a sought after commodity. Many attorneys who re....

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Recently Laid-off Associate Unsure How to Handle Job Status in Interviews

For the World’s Largest Collection of Law Firm Interview Resources Click HereQuestion:I was recently laid off from my ....

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Top 20 Questions Law Firm Partners Should Ask Themselves When Considering a Lateral Move

These are challenging times for law firms. There is great uncertainty in our financial markets. This in turn is making....

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Interviewing a Law Firm: Distinctions that Make the Difference

For the World’s Largest Collection of Law Firm Interview Resources Click HereI recently asked a managing partner (who ....

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Whirligig of Time

This is undoubtedly an unpopular question for a legal recruiter to ask, but why are you an attorney?....

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Partner Q&A in the Wake of Wall Street's Collapse and its Ripple Effect on The Street

Wall Street's financial troubles are distressing not only to firms in New York City, which rely heavily upon financial i....

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Is Telling a Headhunter That You Are About to Be Laid-off a Good Move?

Question:I am a mid-level corporate associate, and have just been told that I am being laid off because there is not eno....

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Honesty is the Best Policy

In today's down market, news of firm layoffs have unfortunately become all too common. If you are one of the unlucky on....

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How Becoming a Mentor Can Help Advance Your Professional Career

Mentoring is an invaluable tool for career growth and development. It offers a valuable opportunity for both mentors an....

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Responding to Criticism: Survival Strategies

A large law firm can be a harsh work environment. When you take a group of intelligent, ambitious, left-brained individu....

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Handling References: A Basic Guide

You just had a good interview. In fact, it was great! You really connected with the people that you met. You found the p....

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Recruiters as Agents: What Should You Look for in an Agent?

BCG Attorney Search is a legal placement firm and not a legal recruiting firm. There is a huge difference. Read....

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Important Questions an Attorney and Law Student Should Ask in a Law Firm Interview and Why it is Important to Listen During Law Firm Interviews

''Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt''— Abraham Lincoln''One of the ....

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Raising the Bar

With big businesses gobbling up competitors and financial disclosure woes dominating the headlines, it is no surprise th....

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