Maybe as I get older I have less patience for things that seem wasteful or meaningless, or maybe I’m just getting crankier. I suspect people who work with me would choose the latter, but I have made strides over the past few years in learning ...
Otto Sorts - January 5, 2016
As we enter the new year, most of us make some resolutions. Commonly we want to lose weight, be more patient with family members or get better organized. And high on many lists is figuring out how to have better work-life balance. On that ...
Margery Leveen Sher - January 4, 2016
For years I’ve heard the mantra, “It’s all about relationships.” At the risk of casting an unwelcome pall in the middle of the holidays, bear with me while I gore this venerable ox, a quaint vestige of the 25-year seller’s market that ended in ...
Mike O'Horo - December 30, 2015Cat got your tongue? Our special two-week holiday series, “Connect the Dots: A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking,” continues today with good tips on starting and sustaining conversations. You’ve heard about the elevator speech, the 30-second ...
Theda C. Snyder - December 29, 2015Last spring at ABA TECHSHOW 2015, Philippe Doyle Gray presented his method for using Evernote to manage contacts, especially during events. For today’s installment of “Connect the Dots: A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking,” we asked him to ...
Philippe Doyle Gray - December 28, 2015Networking, the art of connecting the dots in a way that both builds your practice and helps people find solutions to their problems, is an evergreen topic of discussion among lawyers. From "I can't do all that glad-handing!" to "I feel so lucky ...
The Editors - December 24, 2015A busy travel schedule can be good for business development. Ruth Carter tells how she does it in today's installment of “Connect the Dots: A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking." Looking over my calendar from 2015, I noticed that I spent ...
Ruth Carter - December 23, 2015
Knowing it is against many of our natures to get out there and network, it is easy to see why many solos shirk the cocktail hour at the bar meeting, or slip into the back row of a CLE presentation and out again as soon as the hour is up. But if ...
Megan Zavieh - December 22, 2015
Dust off your dancing shoes: Our special two-week holiday series, "Connect the Dots: A Lawyer's Guide to Networking," begins today. Face-to-face contact remains the top networking tool to reach business clients and professional ...
Theda C. Snyder - December 21, 2015When most people think about “branding,” the first thing that comes to mind is the visuals: logos, images, color schemes. But branding is much more than visual elements. It's the connection a human being has to a product, service or even another ...
Julie Tolek - December 18, 2015
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