Today dozens of legal apps can optimize your billable hours and better manage your time. Cloud based technology gives us access to remotely serve clients in real time. Making you more productive. Here are ten top apps that law firms utilize to improve the bottom line and make it rain. 1. Clio Rest assured...
CLE: Ethical Marketing, Advertising, Social Media, Client Engagement and More to Grow Your Practice
Save The Date: Wednesday April 13, 2022 CLE: Ethical Marketing, Advertising, Social Media, Client Engagement & More to Grow Your Practice Description: Learn ethical marketing tips to help jump start your practice. What’s the right balance of advertising, social media, video and client engagement to grow your practice? What’s the difference between an advertisement and...
Law Job Do’s & Don’ts: Using Humor During The Interview
Humor helps build trust with personal relationships and can help influence attitudes at work. In fact Harvard Business Review recently published an article, Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User’s Guide to Humor at Work which weighs in on when and how to use humor. There are rules to follow and avoid when to...
Confessions of a Legal Recruiter: Secrets to Landing a Successful Partnership
Landing a Successful Partnership Law firms are looking for attorneys who can hit the ground running. The best legal recruiters can help guide you to identify law firms that are a good fit for your practice and lifestyle. Things to consider prior to switching firm… Define Your Value Proposition What is your mission? Who...
The Kiss of Death Question: Tell Me About Yourself
Definitely do not say these four answers while vying for a senior executive position. The First.You’ll hear this at almost every interview you go to in your life. It should be an easy question. Are you sure? Maybe you haven’t interviewed in a while. It’s more of a statement than a question. Question/Statement: Tell...
Tough Questions Law Firms & Attorneys Need to Ask to Survive
Tough Questions Goodbye 2020, we are beginning to turn the page on the one of the darkest chapters in our journey through this COVID Crisis. The pandemic has changed the way we do business. Lawyers and law firms are faced with re-thinking how to thrive in this new uncertain world. The COVID vaccination campaign...
Its Groundhog Day: Are You in a Career Coma?
Are you in a career coma? Do you find yourself unresponsive to the world around you? Nothing seems to phase you, and you are numb to the painful reality that you’re stuck in a dead-end job. There is no secret recipe for a curing a career coma. What you can do is start taking...
Don’t lie to me. If you’re NOT going to be transparent when making the lateral move, don’t bother.
Don’t lie to me. Give yourself the best chance of landing a position you want. When several important issues come up that you did not disclose from the on-set, it’s a red flag. What other issues did you not come clean with? Your credibility is important, right? Don’t waste your time, or everyone else’s,...
I’m Just Getting Started: Lateral Partner Moves After Sixty
Partners are opting to continue working well into their 60’s and beyond – act decisively and quickly. There will never be a better time to make the lateral partner move. Senior partners sense they are being sidelined, for reasons unclear. There is a stigma that persists that after 60, you have very little currency...
Workplace Diversity In Law: Where Are We? Where Are We Headed?
Diversity in adversity. Americans with disabilities represents about 20% of the population. As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, much has changed. People with disabilities are by law, no longer denied access to jobs, schools or transportation. The COVID crisis has put millions of people out of work. We’re...