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Billable Hours and Law Firm Economics: What Every Attorney Needs to Understand to Get ....

Summary: This guide from BCG Attorney Search addresses what it takes to be successful in a law firm that you aren't taught in law school.....

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The Only Way to Be Happy Practicing Law: How to Immediately Find Happiness Practicing Law

Although it is often neglected by big law firms, this is the one thing you must focus on if you want to enjoy practicing law.....

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Top 10 Reasons Why High Junior Associate Salaries Are Destroying the Legal Profession

Learn why an increase in law firm salaries is so destructive to the legal profession and will ultimately harm many attorneys.....

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Another Big Law Attorney I Know Just Died Young

Learn why practicing law sucks the life out of so many attorneys and what you can do to avoid this fate.....

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Why You Should Find Your 'Tribe' and Not Just Focus on Money in Making Law Firm Job ....

Learn how identifying your “tribe” will help you achieve greater career satisfaction and financial security in a law firm.....

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10 Biggest Career Mistakes Big Law Firm Attorneys Make (and 10 Ways to Survive in a Big Firm)

Listen to This Podcast on:Are you a strategic or tactical attorney?Learn in this article how being a combination of both....

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Should I Stay or Should I Go: What Should Partners Do When Their Firm Merges with Another Firm?

While most seasoned partners have been through their share of recessions and economic turmoil, the recession of 2008 has....

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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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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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Why Attorneys Need to Figure Out How to Fit in in their Law Firms or Find a New Firm Where They Do: The Importance of Fitting In

One of the most persistent mistakes legal professionals make is to not understand the importance of "fitting in" in thei....

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Why Law Firms Have Become More Like Factories in the Industrial Revolution than Simple Offices

In the early 1800s, during the Industrial Revolution in England, laws and customs that had been designed to protect work....

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Why Attorneys Who Do Not Make the Attorneys Who Give Them Work Feel Important Can Destroy Their Legal Careers

Attorneys work extremely hard in large law firms to achieve partner status. Even when they do become partners, there re....

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