Introducing Ron Peterson, a guest author. To learn more about Ron, scroll to the end of his post.
Lawyers will often carry Phi-Beta Kappa keys, law review credentials, marquee college and law school degrees, and—after a few years of diligent and conscientious practice—a growing realization that they may be unemployable! How can this be? Throughout school [...]
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Could you be unemployable? It’s up to you.
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Communications trouble? Maybe it’s you!
I’m pleased to share an article written by Annetta Wilson, one of the communications experts who will be leading the upcoming teleseminar Cut Through Communications Chaos. Have you ever tried to have a conversation with a colleague or client only to discover that you’re talking at cross-purposes, with no middle ground you can find? Read [...]
Dare To Dream, Gridlock and the Two-Professional Couple
Children, no children. Be social, stay at home. Go to church, be an atheist. Spend large sums on a rental home, invest the money.
Gridlock.
Gridlock is part of the fabric of being a couple, especially a two-professional couple where time is a premium and consistent dialogue about personal issues is not very common. However, ending [...]
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Two Heavy-Duty Partners in Relationship
So, Bill Clinton will be fast and furious on the campaign trail supporting Hillary’s bid for the Presidency. Good news or bad news? In 2004, Howard Dean’s spouse, Judith Steinberg Dean, stayed more “stage right” and was seen infrequently. Good news or bad news?
The question that surfaces is this: Can two full-time, fully-engaged-in-a-professional-life partners maintain [...]
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I’m excited to share some thoughts about lawyers in relationship with you this week. Why relationships? In addition to my work as a life and business coach, I have dedicated much of my coaching practice to support couples in relationship. Having been in a 15-year failed marriage, and married to one who had been in [...]
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Vacation; ABA meeting; Introducing guest blogger Peter Vajda
“Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today’s world, it has become a necessity.”
Unknown “Vacation is what you take when you can’t take what you’ve been taking any longer.”
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“Isn’t it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They’ve cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, [...]

September 02, 2008 

