Good Lawyers Choose Great Careers
Looking for legal work? Perhaps the best response at the moment is “Who isn’t?” Yet, every senior lawyer will tell you that lawyers have never known where their next piece of work was coming from. The best advice from those who have been in the practice for decades, who have seen the ups and downs [...]
Do you see your opportunities clearly? Do you maximize them? Most lawyers do neither, but exceptional lawyers do both. Sometimes, professional help is needed. When opportunity knocks, it often pays to clarify the picture by working with good coaches and consultants.
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book describing the lives of the exceptionally successful, explains Secret [...]
We asked lawyers enjoying extraordinary careers through good and bad economic times to share their Top Ten Secrets. Developing a sense of what risks to take was Secret #3. We described it this way:
Don’t No everything. Your skills for risk assessment and avoidance can too easily lead you to “no” instead of “yes” [...]
Tired of all the bad news these days? I am. The incessant negative reports from every quarter of the economy and the world have been bombarding us for at least two years now. I, for one, am ready to declare a moratoriam. Aren’t you?
Maybe forewarned is forearmed, but after a while, these negative reports are [...]
Nothing happens instantly, in legal careers or in life. When we described the 10 Secrets of Extraordinary Legal Careers based on our interviews and experience with thousands of lawyers, one of the most significant secrets they shared was Secret #4 Eating apples requires attention. We shouldn’t eat an apple just to be finished [...]
Good Clients are Kings, not Gods, successful lawyers know. In Secret #5, we mentioned that clients are essential to worthwhile legal careers. But lawyers can get so caught up in representing clients zealously that they surrender too much objectivity and professionalism to their client’s cause.
Health care lawyers, particularly in-house counsel, have found themselves [...]
Lawyers get in trouble when they forget Secret #5: Clients are kings, not gods. Law is a service business. We need clients to serve. Clients must be nurtured and well represented to grow your practice. But your first allegiance is to the law, not the client. Advancing your client’s interests at the expense of [...]
Client Service that LASTS is essential for building a strong and lasting law practice.
Simple to state, harder to implement, the solution is to create an atmosphere where complaints are welcomed and resolved quickly. Realize that clients will have complaints and don’t think that their failure to tell you about them means the complaints don’t exist.
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M. Diane Vogt
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