Legal Career Development

Meyling Ly Ortiz | Starting your first job in-house? Here are a few suggestions for making a successful transition.

What do those recurring dreams of failure say about us? Tea Hoffman says reframing the fears our dreams reveal may be the key to personal growth and success.

Pursuing personal projects or part-time work is not new for lawyers, but the “great reassessment” has amplified the discussion.

Specialization has become increasingly prevalent — almost a necessity. Tomas Suros discusses the drivers behind practice area specialization and its benefits.

Sally Schmidt | Six associate business development activities to help young lawyers get a running start building their law practices.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Jay Harrington | The leap from law firm associate to partner means evolving from a "doer" to a "doer-seller."

Losing a job sucks big-time, but these dos and don'ts will help you maintain your sanity.