Only 34 days remain in 2007, including weekends and holidays. Before we know it, the books will close and another year will have passed. What’s the most important step you can take today to ensure that you’re well-positioned as you move into 2008?
Business development: Perhaps you could set aside a couple of hours to evaluate [...]
When I sat down to write today’s post, I intended to write about how excellent client service blends into client development. I’d planned to suggest some tactics for extending the relationship so you become a “trusted advisor” (to borrow David Maister’s phrase). One of the tactics I’d planned to suggest was, not surprisingly, taking clients [...]
One of the rules I keep in mind when writing  is that good writing is clear, crisp, and simple. The same rule often applies more generally as well. As Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
When it comes to managing one’s personal life while maintaining a practice, “simple” is the [...]
A lot of law firms are working to make their associate review processes more useful — and some are even succeeding. Over the last 2-3 years, it’s become quite vogue to require associates to design a professional development plan so that they and the firm can track their progress. Although the plan is designed to [...]
One of the fundamental tenents of work/life balance, work/life integration, or any other name one might choose to describe the relationship between time applied on professional and personal matters is simple: conscious decisions on what to do and what to forego are mandatory, because no one can do everything. My husband has a photo in his office [...]
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Happy Labor Day, everyone! I hope you’re taking at least a part of today for fun and recreation. As for me, I’m back to my “office” for more reading and writing. I’m cooking up some new plans for Life at the Bar for this year. (After being in school for so long, September [...]
One of the things I most enjoy about the blogosphere is the free exchange of ideas and thoughts. Recently, Stephanie West Allen and I have been discussing a trend reported by Canada’s leading newspaper The Globe and Mail in an article entitled “Office Stress Ruining Women Lawyers’ Lives.” (With thanks to Gerry Riskin of Amazing Firms, [...]
As announced in a flurry of law firm press releases yesterday, Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC have announced the top 50 firms for women, as measured through “groundbreaking programs to help women strike a better work/life balance and climb to the top” and “implementing penalty-free flex schedules and mentoring, networking and leadership programs.” Large firms [...]
By the time this posts, I will likely have landed back at the Atlanta airport, home from vacation and from the ABA annual meeting. First, I’d like to thank Peter Vajda publicly for his posts. Relationship is always an interesting topic, and I believe that in many ways our relationships shape and promote or inhibit [...]
“Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today’s world, it has become a necessity.”Â
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, [...]
November 26, 2007 
