Tuesday shorts: 10/16/07
Today’s shorts are very, very short. Email interpretation: We’ve come to rely on email as a quick and easy way to get a message across. Quicker than voicemail and an easy way to create a record, we use email for everything from assignments to news to forwarding jokes. David Giacalone of f/k/a offers commentary on a […]
Practice skills: resilience (part 2 — the strategies)
As promised in Wednesday’s post on resilience, today’s topic is how to be resilient in the face of challenges and adverse events. I recently worked with a client who tended to get stuck in things that had gone wrong or felt like slights to her. For instance, after opposing counsel accused her of acting in bad […]
Practice skill: resilience (part 1)
I recently ran across a post by Ruthie on Ruthie’s Law inquiring, “Are you tough enough?” Ruthie suggests that: The most successful lawyers are the ones who can accept that occassionally making mistakes is the price of progression, pick themselves up, move on and vow not to make the same mistake again. The most successful of all […]
Tuesday shorts: 10/9/07
A few things from the last week that deserve to be highlighted… Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith, Esq. offers a fascinating interview with Bruce Stachenfeld of Duval & Stachenfeld, a New York-based firm that’s made the news recently with its unusual compensation plan. The firm pays first-year lawyers $60,000 and calls them “opportunity associates.” The […]
Expecting a bad evaluation? What to do today.
Evaluation season is coming up soon. I recently received a question that might be paraphrased as follows, with identifying information removed: “I’ve had a difficult couple of years for reasons that are partly out of my control (a serious, but now resolved, health issue and a slowdown in the work available) and partly within my control (some […]
“I hate being a lawyer”
When I review the searches that lead people to this blog, I all too frequently find some version of, “I hate being a lawyer.” Often I shrug and move on without much thought, but seeing the search last weekend took me down a different line of thought. Is this really true for the searcher? Maybe it […]
Pump up your writing!
My major (on my first trip through undergrad) was in English, with an emphasis on creative writing. When I asked my favorite writing professor for a recommendation to law school, she literally covered her face with her hands and started shaking her head. After determining that she had slid into despair and was not, as […]