Good Lawyers Choose Great Careers
A thriving law practice requires good clients to serve as well as good client service. Building a client base is a challenge for most lawyers, regardless of practice area, geographic location, or business model. A proven system many lawyers have used with significant success requires steady techniques consistently applied. In this way, we learn to [...]
Law careers are developed and created over time. Generally years, not months. A lawyer on the “fast track” may shave a year or so off her “metoric success,” but one rarely graduates from law school on Friday and becomes Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. Yes, Barack Obama is a young president. [...]
When there is only one choice, it’s the right choice. That’s what good lawyers with great careers often discover. Take John Arthur Jones, for example. He’s practiced law for 60 years. He said he’d planned to become a journalist, but that didn’t happen. He tried a few other things that didn’t pan out. And then, [...]
Law Career Development is an essential part of every lawyer’s practice. Law careers develop in successive stages coinciding with levels of experience, exposure to benchmarks, and most importantly, the identification and effective use of mentors and coaching to advance from one stage to the next.
At each stage, the lawyer is personally responsible for his or her own law career development, including successively greater lawyering skills, practice development (including image, business
Every lawyer’s greatest asset is herself. You are the golden goose and the creator of all the golden eggs in your past, present, and future. We’re a year or two into the recession now. Have you been investing in your own practice development, taking advantage of the crisis to position yourself more effectively and profitably? Or are you hunkered down, head covered, praying for a cease fire?
In tough economic
M. Diane Vogt
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