Last year was incredibly busy for me, first with writing The Reluctant Rainmaker and then with designing programs like the Lawyers Business Development Bootcamp, plus working with many 1-on-1 clients. It was a great year, but toward the fall I started to notice that I’ve met very few of my clients and newsletter readers in [...]
Please join me on Wednesday, November 11 at 12:30 PM ET for a complimentary teleclass, “Business Development Made Simple.”
Do you have all the business you want? During “Business Development Made Simple” I’ll share my rainmaking system, including:
How to make the most of your networking (with action items you can implement during the upcoming holiday season)… [...]
Back in April, a much-respected lawyer in Washington, DC committed suicide after being laid off. I didn’t post the story at the time because, quite simply, I couldn’t figure out what to say.Â
This month’s ABA Journal cover story traces Mark Levy’s career, ending with his suicide in his office. Friends and colleagues remember Levy as [...]
The economic crisis and the resulting fallout has brought numerous changes to law-as-profession and law-as-business, and now law schools are bringing change to the table as well. According to an article in The National Law Journal:Â
Washington and Lee University School of Law has thrown out its traditional third-year curriculum and replaced it with a [...]
The American Lawyer recently reported the results of a study titled After the JD, conducted on behalf of the American Bar Foundation. The study, which tracked 5000 lawyers who began practicing in 2000, found that “new lawyers working for firms of more than 250 lawyers are less satisfied with their jobs than their counterparts in [...]
Another week with bad (or at least challenging) economic news.  I suspect we all gasped in unison when the Dow went under 8000, and it seems to be more accurate to ask which firms aren’t laying off lawyers and staff than which are.  Perhaps an overstatement, but not a radical overstatement.  It seems like there’s bad [...]
Former law firm associate Catriona Collins sued the law firm that had employed her, Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane, claiming that she was passed over for work assignments and ultimately dismissed on the basis of her gender.Â
Last week, the ABA Journal reported on Judge Kimba Wood’s Order denying (in part) the firm’s motion for summary judgment and [...]
It’s been quiet on the blog this week because I’ve been busy working behind the scenes on revamping the blog. It all started last week when the fantastic person who handles all of my online activites (blog, website, hosting, you name it) sent me an email reminding me that the blog software I was using [...]
 Or… Maybe it’s time for a change.  There’s been much discussion for the past few years about the viability of the billable hour, the high numbers of lawyers (especially but not exclusively women and women of color) leaving the profession, and the high rate of lawyer depression.  In case you missed it, Thursday’s New York Times carried an [...]
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“There have always been, and inevitably will be, a certain number of bullies, braggarts, brutes and bigots who manage to insinuate themselves into any assemblage of humans, the legal profession not excluded. In the past, these misfits have been dealt with by peer pressure and sanctions; however, as the rude, degrading behaviors creep ever closer [...]
January 27, 2010 
