One of my favorite questions to suggest to a lawyer who’s in conversation with a potential client or looking to deepen a conversation with a current client is this: When you’re stuck in traffic and you’re thinking about your business, what’s the challenge that comes to mind most frequently? I love that question because it’s [...]
I’ve begun including a new feature in my weekly email newsletter Leadership Matters for Lawyers, called “Ask Julie.” Readers can send in questions, and each week I select one to answer in the newsletter. Last week’s question and response generated quite a bit of discussion, so I’m sharing it here. (If you haven’t yet subscribed [...]
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Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while now may have noticed a rather precipitous drop-off in the frequency of my blogging this year. I confess! As is so often true, that drop-off represents as a mix of good news and bad news. The bad news is I didn’t achieve the [...]
One of the ways that I describe the work I do is “professional and personal coaching for lawyers.” Although I occasionally do what amounts to life coaching for someone who happens to be a lawyer, my passion lies in helping lawyers develop their professional lives, which often relates in some way to their personal lives. [...]
I am very late in joining in on a project making its way around the blogosphere: the W Magical List of Women Bloggers. The list now includes more than 125 blogs, some of which are among my favorites, and introducing to me others that I’m excited to be discovering for the first time. Without further [...]
This is a picture of where my “office” was yesterday: I’m on retreat, spending lots of time outside reading, writing, and thinking about my business. Here’s a link to a post I wrote last year describing how you might engage in your own retreat, to review and evaulate how your practice is running and how [...]
I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately (a by-product of not being able to work using my own computer) and I’m enjoying the diversity of ideas that are coming through my selections. From the point of view of the stereotypical lawyer or law firm, the most subversive of these books is The Power of [...]
I suppose the flu is going around everywhere now — part of the last gasp of winter. And, I’ve got it, and it’s hideous.
I’m going to get some rest and get well. I’ll be back by Monday.
Until then, here’s a quote for your reflection:
“As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, [...]
Thanks to all who joined in on yesterday’s teleconference! I always enjoy talking with bright, motivated folks… It was a pleasure.
We walked through the Lawyer’s LifePosts (available to subscribers of the free Life at the Bar Survival Kit) and discussed how the aspirations are playing out in our lives now. (And I say “we” because I work with [...]
August 08, 2008 
