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Some time ago, after I read an interesting post on David Maister’s blog, I made a post titled Relationship or one-night stand: how law firms view associates (and clients). Although my interest at the time was focused on the character of relationships between law firms and associates, Maister uses the analogy primarily to discuss relationships between [...]
Do you ever feel uncomfortable talking about yourself and your practice when you’re networking in hopes of developing new business? Many lawyers do. (And some lawyers who don’t feel that way perhaps should — but that’s another post.) But there’s good news: talking about what you do isn’t the way to generate interest from a [...]
I burn my candle at both ends
It will not last the night.
But ah my foes and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light.
      Edna St. Vincent Millay
What do you think when you read this? If you’re like many lawyers, you felt a flutter of recognition — perhaps just before you recoiled at the idea that, [...]
Now that the class of 2006 lawyers have been in place for at least a quarter, I’m curious…
From the new lawyer side, what’s been your biggest lesson? What gaps have you observed between your skills and knowledge on your first day of work and what the firm expected of you? What would you do differently [...]
Several interesting things popping today that I’d like to share.
1. Check out the post on Social Intelligence on Bruce MacEwan’s blog, Adam Smith, Esq.  It’s a brief explanation of what social intellligence is, why it matters, and why even (or perhaps especially) lawyers who are not generally inclined to explore such issues ought to pay attention.
2. Bob Sutton has an [...]
In the discussions that led up to the Lawyers Appreciate…  countdown, Stephanie West Allen mentioned the Secret Society of Happy People to me. The name captured me – raptured me! — and it kept floating back to the surface as we were choosing the name for the countdown.
Stephanie recently requested authorization from Pamela Gail Johnson, the creator of [...]
Yesterday’s WSJ Law Blog pointed to an American Lawyer article entitled Obstacle Course, outlining the challenges female litigators have in “break[ing] through old stereotypes to build top-tier practices” in the “male-dominated world of litigation.”Â
Referencing one female partner’s internal struggle not to deal with food arrangements for trial prep meetings and another who was asked (15 years ago) by [...]
Are you thinking this is a strange topic for a legally inclined blog? Perhaps it isn’t…
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine featured an article titled Happiness 101,  addressing the field of positive psychology. As described on U Penn’s website Authentic Happiness, positive psychology is the field founded by Dr. Martin Seligman that:
focuses on the empirical study of [...]
Tom Collins, author of the well-respected More Partner Income blog has written a must-read post titled “A Problem Solving Policy for the Law Firm.” He describes the ordinary approach to problem-solving as the process of identifying and closing the gap between how things are and how they should be, which treats the symptom but not the [...]
January 29, 2007 
