Professional Development

Think you’re too busy or too stressed to commit to a volunteer role for a nonprofit or bar group? The key to success lies in learning to adapt.

Here are pro tips, wild hacks and some upscaling ideas for the next time you get a room at terminal five.

A few common mistakes can hurt your reputation and diminish your ability to influence others. Here are simple steps to correct course.

Sometimes your personal life takes priority and distracts you from work. Without good systems in place, distracted lawyering may lead to a professional crash.

Here’s how a conference can be a source of new topic ideas and a way to maximize your investment in speaking or attending.

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

Your competitors are shouting “I’m an expert” across the web. Here's how successful thought leaders stand out amid the noise.

The next time you walk into a seminar and decide where to sit, consider sending the message that you’re attentive, respectful and came to learn a thing or two.

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 ...

I participate in a lot of law firm retreats and meetings, but one will always stand out. I was talking with representatives of the firm before the retreat kicked off when one of the partners pulled me aside, pointed out another firm partner and ...