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Learn To Love - Or At Least Tolerate - Performance Reviews
Comments (0)If there were no performance evaluations, management would have a hard time knowing which employees are working hard, hardly working, or doing nothing much at all.
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Lawyers Need Leadership Development Training
Comments (2)Our profession is slowly recognizing that we need better leadership development and that this will be best accomplished through continuing legal education programs, which are readily available in the classroom, over the web, by video or phone.
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Changes Are Altering The Legal Profession
Comments (1)The constant theme of reinvention and overturning of atrophied habits of thought and practice runs like a steel thread throughout our history. Innovation, intellectual freedom and a willingness to explore a different path is part of our national character.
Today’s Economic Pressures Work Against Natural Mentoring
Comments (2)To navigate the complexities inherent in developing as a lawyer and succeeding in a particular law firm, an associate needs support, guidance, and a human connection with the firm’s leadership.
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What Do Savvy Lawyers Do In An Uncertain Economy?
With stock markets shifting wildly worldwide and economic uncertainty enveloping the globe, it is more important than ever to find ways to stand out. Those ...
In all my years of practice, I have never had a client say, “I’d like to buy ten six-minute increments of your time, please” and ...
"The people who get on in this world,” wrote George Bernard Shaw, “are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, ...
When I became a partner in my law firm in 1982, I was welcomed with the traditional invitation from the most senior partner who intoned, ...
Law firms are no strangers to the boom-and-bust cycle. Not long ago, the attention of the legal profession seemed fixed on million dollar profits per ...
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Law Practice Communications
What Do Native Americans And Rainmaking Have To Do With The Law?
Comments (4)I was in northern Arizona recently doing a video about 18-wheelers with triple trailers (it’s a living) and had a ...
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Support Staff
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been A Bad Boss?
Comments (1)We’ve all had bad bosses - creepy, crawly, hair-raising, crazy - making ones. They come in all shapes and sizes: ...
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Professional Development
Examine Your Work-Life Balance
Comments (0)If you had to guess, how many articles would you estimate that you have read in the last five years ...
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Health, Law Practice Marketing
Our Responsibilities May Be Hazardous To Our Health
Comments (0)An old joke that has floated around recovery circles for years tells the story of a relatively young man who ...
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Law Practice Marketing
Reset Your Mindset To Make Rain Whatever The Economic Weather
Comments (0)It’s hard enough to generate new business when the economy is thriving; the current global economic climate raises the bar ...
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Professional Development
Your Practice Becomes You
Comments (1)It was time for my annual physical and the inevitable lab work. I don’t like giving blood, so l try ...
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Health
Thriving Beyond the Money In These Stressful Times
Comments (0)In her 1969 groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, Swiss physician Elisabeth Kubler-Ross described the seven sequential emotional responses (the ...
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Law Practice Communications
Understand Bias, Eliminate Prejudice And Practice Tolerance
Comments (0)“We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods ...
