Legal Career Development

Starting Your Side Hustle: Three Essentials for $300

Here's the first installment in Andrea Cannavina's no-nonsense guide to starting your dream business.

Andrea Cannavina - August 2, 2019
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Survival Skill No. 6 for Lawyers: Bring Your Authentic Self to Work

The new standard for lawyers: Bring your authentic self to work. Link Christin wraps up his series on beating burnout and achieving emotional well-being.

Link Christin - July 31, 2019
Slow It Down Lessons for Women Lawyers
Slow It Down: Lessons for Women Lawyers

Our lives are often filled with chaos. Long, slow distance days and quiet moments exist to supercharge our minds and energize our spirits so we can take on the world again.

Stephanie Scarborough - June 28, 2019
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Survival Skill No. 4 for Lawyers: Compassionate Professionalism

Keeping it professional at the office doesn’t mean you can’t be human.

Link Christin - May 22, 2019
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New Lawyers Should Have More Than One Mentor

Wouldn't it be nice to have a board of directors to guide your career?

Amy Timmer - May 1, 2019
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The Gig Economy Is Creating Career Options for Flexibility-Minded Lawyers

Lumen Legal's Dave Galbenski on "modern secondments" and the market for on-demand legal services.

Dave Galbenski - April 29, 2019
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‘Balancing the Scales’: Have Women Lawyers’ Expectations Changed in the Past 50 Years?

History lessons and takeaways from a panel around "Balancing the Scales," a documentary about challenges women lawyers have faced.

Kristin Tyler - April 4, 2019
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Sponsors Are the New Mentors, Especially for Women

Ida Abbott's provocative and timely book gives men everything they need to sponsor — not merely mentor — professional women into leadership roles.

Ida O. Abbott - September 21, 2018
A Lawyer’s Search for Right Livelihood

While the most self-serving among us give the profession a bad name and justify nearly every bad lawyer joke, most of us became lawyers because we genuinely want to help people. You need only speak to a class of first-year law students to get a ...

Zachary Horn - July 6, 2018
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False Starts: 5 Misconceptions About Starting a Law Firm

Making the decision to start a law firm is difficult. It’s nothing but nerve-wracking until you press start and you’re into it — without a safety net, and too busy to care about hypotheticals anymore. The choice to move forward with launching is ...

Jared Correia - June 28, 2018
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