Jamie Spannhake | From desk-friendly yoga tools to self-care kits, these ideas are as practical as they are thoughtful.

Ari Kaplan interviews speaks with Laura Leopard of Leopard Solutions, a law firm data platform and a SurePoint company.

Many lawyers fail to structure their days in a manner that allows them to manage the day’s distractions and get important work done early, rather than late at night. And it’s a big problem: There’s probably no bigger contributor to your unhappiness than the sense that you've lost control and your career is consuming your life. While my last post touched on tips that can help you better manage your days and avoid working at night, I wanted to dive deeper. Here are some techniques that I use, and that I’ve observed others use, to get work done efficiently and effectively while maintaining a balanced schedule.

Secondary Traumatic Stress encompasses the behavioral and emotional responses to continued, indirect exposure to traumatic events.

Katie Barnard | It's easy to fall prey to terms that could leave you without control over your most fundamental assets.

Attorney Susan Cohodes shares wisdom from her long career in small firm practice and her transition to "less-than-full-time" practice.

Gray Robinson | When pushed too hard by perfectionism, your brain can get stuck reacting to problems, not solving them.

Don't be the one to embarrass yourself at the big firm holiday party. That lampshade does not go with those shoes.

Teddy Snyder | You have a lot of ways to tell the story of your case, but are you doing it in the most effective way?

It's probably a good thing that it happened to me right away. About two weeks into my legal career, I had my first encounter with a bully lawyer. I was working at the Chicago office of a large New York firm. My first day was Monday, September 17, 2001. After the attacks on 9/11, most new associates — myself included — were placed in the corporate bankruptcy department due to the spike in work, regardless of our prior plans or preferences.