“Work-life balance nonsense”
JD Hull has a terrific blog called “What About Clients?(tm) ” You can probably guess the focus, and I encourage you to check it out. A recent post titled WAC?’s Usual ‘Muscle Boutique’ Rant Gains Currency? includes the following: It’s time for lawyers with the right credentials . . . [to] chuck . . . your […]
Emotional intelligence for lawyers
Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the degree to which one is: * aware of one’s own feelings, * able to discriminate among those feelings and to manage them to faciliate appropriate responses, * able to motivate oneself despite feelings of self-doubt, inertia, etc., * able to recognize others’ emotions based on various cues, * empathetic […]
Timesheet habits: don’t procrastinate.
Timesheets routinely come up as a bemoaned part of practice, something that no one likes to do. Many lawyers develop the habit of doing timesheets in bulk, usually at the end of the week but sometimes at the end of the month. That’s a terrible habit for a wide variety of reasons. Unless your notes are […]
Consistency in marketing, Guerrilla-style
I ran across a fascinating marketing tip sheet recently. It’s written by Jay Conrad Levinson, who has achieved notoriety as the author behind the Guerrilla Marketing series. What I found is the 15 Secrets of Guerrilla Marketing (no longer available). I will admit up front that I haven’t read a single Guerrilla Marketing book or […]
Peak or valley? Performing a realistic and meaningful self-evaluation
Just about every firm has some formal mechanism for evaluating associates. The format varies, but the general idea is always the same: to collect feedback on how well each associate is performing and to pass that on to the associate, preferably with some comments about how the associate might improve. Fair enough, except that the […]
PMBR Infringed NCBE’s Copyright
Though most readers likely took and passed the bar exam some time ago, perhaps this post will be of interest nonetheless. This may be old news to some, but it was new to me… On August 22, Judge Fullam of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entered an Order and judgment on behalf of the National […]
Dual career and commuter families
It’s tough to be married to a lawyer. I should know, since my husband is a lawyer; pity for him that I am too. The careers that our spouses or partners engage in may determine quite a bit about our lives. Lawyers are often accused of arguing in a relationship as if in court, or […]