Barbara Kaplan | Your brand is your ambassador, your employee, your board of directors. Nurture it lovingly. Guard it closely.

Jamie Spannhake | When we set a “goal” to experience joy, we may end up having one of our best years yet — personally, financially and professionally.

Get to the Point! | When you want to vary your vocabulary to hold the reader’s interest, the thesaurus is where to turn.

What do you say when people ask you what you do? Will Hornsby explains some of the stickier points of networking and lawyer specialization.

Nothing But the Ruth | You worked your butt off and the client refuses to pay. Should you hire a collections attorney?

Brokers are the ideal referral partners for real estate attorneys. Now’s the time to nurture your relationships so you stay top of mind. Real estate attorneys, brokers and title agents are emerging from a roller coaster period that saw home sales skyrocketing throughout 2020 and 2021 before a sharp decline in 2022. While we ease […]

Meyling Ly Ortiz | Fortunately, there’s more than one way for young lawyers to find the training they need to grow.

Most business communications have one objective: to obtain a response. Focus on communicating better to increase your odds of a quick and meaningful reply. Lawyers spend a lot of time communicating to get work done. We communicate with clients, colleagues and each other. This communication occurs in virtual or in-person meetings; phone calls; and over […]

Law firms, lawyers and other professionals can learn from past economic downturns. There are many useful and inspirational lessons to learn about how law firms and other organizations have successfully weathered prior economic storms, then survived and thrived. As the writer and philosopher George Santayana said in 1905, “Those who cannot remember the past are […]

Ensuring a more comfortable workplace is good for employees, and that’s good for the employer, too.