Lawyer Skills

Paul Burton | The world is a noisy place. Is it best to just give up and swim in the ocean of distraction? Nope.

Do you get tongue-tied at cocktail parties? Does making small talk at conferences rate somewhere between vacuuming the car and sitting in the front row of a heavy metal concert? Do we have some tips for you!

To address an envelope, you will need to know the recipient's address, your return address, and how to locate a postage stamp.

Paul Burton | You can manage your work or be managed by it. These four tips will keep you in the driver's seat.

Our legal writing skills series continues with a couple of punctuation marks that often trip up lawyers.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton | Who knows why we do it, but most of us tend to say “yes” to things when we should say "no."

Words with the suffix “–nym” pop up regularly. Some are common, but many of the 46 words with this suffix are not. “Nym” derives from the Greek word for “name” or “word.”

Annie Little |To unlock the power of your transferable skills, you must effectively describe your soft skills to employers.

To present a subject effectively, you need to optimize the speaker (you), the course materials, the visual (the PowerPoint) and the notes.

Get to the Point! | Getting diacritical marks right in your legal documents can make or break your case.