Practice Management

In many law firms, there is a sharp line drawn between lawyers and staff (i.e., everyone else). There are rules about co-mingling. Significant differences in pay structures. Disparate expectations for hours worked. And there are often good reasons for some of these distinctions. But not uncommonly, there is also an unacceptable distinction between the way lawyers communicate with each other as compared to how they treat their staff. Too many young lawyers begin practicing without ever before having held a real job. Their visions of importance and self-aggrandizement have been allowed to percolate unfettered for seven years of undergrad and...

How to Get Hired Despite Not Networking for a Job For an introvert, the prospect of networking gives me the cold sweats. I have literally had nightmares about it. And the only thing worse is when your livelihood hangs in the balance on your ability to network. Small talk and innocuous chatter – I shutter at the thought. There has been many a day I have contemplated whether I would have been better suited to continuing my pursuit of being a historian, since my version of heaven is filled with libraries and the smell of antiquated books. Nevertheless, I’m a...