It’s been quiet here at the Life at the Bar blog recently. I’ve been updating the blog platform, which pretty much brought the blogging itself to a standstill. The new blog is up and running now (though it will be difficult to see any noticeable changes, I promise, they’re running in the background) and so [...]
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Although many lawyers who read this blog enjoy practicing law, comments and emails I’ve received prove that not all readers fall into that category. Studies show that anywhere between 20 and 70 percent of lawyers would like to leave the practice. If you fall into that group, where do you turn?
Meet Monica Parker. Monica is a graduate [...]
There’s an interesting story in yesterday’s Chicago Sun-Times, excerpting a new book that describes Michelle Obama’s dissatisfaction with the work she was doing as a second-year associate at Sidley Austin. A sample:
Too monotonous for Michelle, who, White [the partner in charge of the firm’s advertising group, of which Obama was a member] says, complained that the [...]
I’ve been hard at work on my just-released multimedia learning product 5 Foundations of Time Mastery for Attorneys, and I’m still getting swamped with questions about the free preview call I did a couple of weeks ago, discussing delegation skills and how to manage email. So, I thought I’d share the five top mistakes lawyers make [...]
October 28, 2008 
