Legal Career Development

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

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

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

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

Ida Abbott | Why don't more men sponsor women? As partners and leaders, men have accepted the responsibility to develop all the best talent — but they are losing the female half of that talent pool.

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 ...

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 ...

In an issue of Strategy+Business, management guru Tom Peters suggests a number of books he considers valuable to read. In the interview, he quotes a respected business leader friend who argues that the No. 1 problem with big company CEOs is ...

While there are many factors that will influence the selling price, these five will get you started in evaluating — and increasing — your practice's value.

Why is it so hard to save for “attorney retirement” while you’re building your own firm? You started your practice to have more control, freedom to choose certain clients (and fire others) and potentially, make more money. ...