Professional Development

Mick Jagger has the moves, but like Hamilton he couldn’t get no satisfaction. Generally, satisfaction is the fulfillment of one’s...

It’s well known amongst the legal profession that the biggest misconception depicted by cinema and other media is typically the...

Dictionaries generally define a right-hand person as an invaluable asset, particularly at work. (I’m not sure how to be respectful...

When you’re a young lawyer at a law firm, more often than not you have little sense of the firm’s...

If you’ve done this job long enough, you’ve observed attorneys whose demeanors seem better suited for Thunderdome than litigation. There’s...

You made the leap to your own solo practice or small firm. You decided the fish have manners, they’re coming...

I was working in California at a prominent law firm the first time I was fired. It was January 2002,...

All of our legal careers begin with someone giving us a shot. A firm hires us. We get a clerkship....

Hailing from the hills east of San Francisco, California, and growing up in and around the Silicon Valley, I knew...

In August 2008, my employer, a real estate boutique law firm in Atlanta, began firing their associates because the economy...