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Build Your Law Practice One Small Step at a Time

Jay Harrington | Business development isn’t something you do when things quiet down. It’s something you build into your busy life; one small, consistent effort at a time.

Jay Harrington - October 16, 2025
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Taking the Leap: How Charles Gillis Built a Law Firm Culture That Wins the Talent War 

Be That Lawyer with Steve Fretzin: Charles Gillis is winning the law firm talent war by focusing on culture, not cash.

Steve Fretzin - October 15, 2025
Law Firm Bullying
Are You Being Bullied at Your Law Firm?

It may seem easier to take the road of least resistance and put up with it. But you shouldn’t have to take it. In fact, refusing to take it will make you more effective as a lawyer.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton - October 15, 2025
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Sonya Palmer: Making Space at the Top, How Women Are Redefining Leadership in Law 

Sonya Palmer of LAWHER explains why boosting women in law leadership is a business imperative. Women are redefining law firm success.

Steve Fretzin - October 14, 2025
Poetry for Professional Development
Poetry for Lawyers: The Daily Practice That Transforms Legal Writing

Bull Garlington explains the ways a daily poetry practice improves legal writing, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking.

Bull Garlington - October 9, 2025
Lawyer AI Competence
Lawyer AI Competence: Training Is Becoming Mandatory — But Lawyers Still Get Burned

As AI training expands in law schools, students are being taught the rules while practicing lawyers are getting burned because of their misuse.

Michael Maschke, Sharon Nelson and John Simek - October 8, 2025
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Bemused Writers Do Not Amuse Me

Teddy Snyder | Like the words “verbiage” and “expansive”, “bemused” has apparently lost its meaning through misuse.

Theda C. Snyder - October 7, 2025
Exhausted? Scrimping on Sleep Is Hazardous to Your Health

For over 20 years I worked past the point of mental and physical exhaustion to rack up the requisite billable hours at a corporate defense firm.

Lorie Eber - October 3, 2025
Fractional Administrative Support
Fractional Administrative Support: A New Strategy for Increasing Law Firm Billables

Emily LaRusch | Strategically outsourcing to fractional specialists may be the answer to solo and small firm lawyers' struggle to bill more hours.

Emily LaRusch - October 2, 2025
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Becoming a Lawyer in the Zoom Era: The Case for Showing Up

If we are expected to learn the practice of law through a series of Teams and Zoom logins, what kind of lawyers will we become? Attorney Diego Rosette makes the case for showing up in the Zoom era. I attended law school in the middle of the Zoom ...

Diego Rosette - September 30, 2025
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