They blame frustration on the job they are in. It’s not necessarily the job, rather, how you are making choices about your career.
Blake Lively nailed this concept about the value of your team in her article, "Your Law Firm’s Employees Cost Too Much to Lose.
You'll be amazed to see how much it actually costs to replace one of your attorneys.
If you are in law firm management, you simply MUST read this article
Have you wondered why you are not getting a great response to your resume, even though you meet all the criteria?
If you are not listing your city and state, chances are 90% that your resume will not get accepted.
Compared to other businesses, lawyers have not evolved in how they serve their clients
Let's be honest; the way lawyers serve their clients has not changed much, not just from the late 1970s when I started practicing law but probably since the 1200s when England passed laws regulating the conduct of the legal profession.....
Every other business bombards its customers with client satisfaction surveys, but, in my experience, few lawyers ever bother at any stage to ask their clients for feedback on the service they received.
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Are You Pretty Enough for your Job?
This article on beauty and age discrinimation struck a chord with so many readers. It even spawned an article in Fortune Magazine.
If you haven't read it, you should.
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As a former labor and employment law attorney, I’ve taken issue with the popular employee disciplinary tool commonly referred to as “progressive discipline.”
I advocate replacing conventional employee disciplinary policy with the following three communication tools: ...
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Adding Value To The Firm – Are You In Or Out?
We often talk about how to get a job but why don’t we talk enough about keeping a job?
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Flightmare. If you got caught up in it, my sympathies! With thousands and thousands of weary travelers serious victims of the blizzard, ice or even Southwest, the holidays were dreadful.
...Sleeping with my head on my carry-on bag without my jammies just didn’t seem like the way I wanted to kick off our vacation.
Getting a hotel room at the last minute in the middle of a blizzard took an act of the travel gods.
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Two Unbelievable Reasons Why Paralegal Resumes Get Tossed
If you missed it - read the article here.
Here are the most common (and un-communicated) reasons why your resume is tossed....
I mapped out a plan for her when I realized she was making the biggest, most common mistake you can make when seeking a raise or promotion: Sitting and waiting for the firm to notice that you are doing a good job.
Few promotions are given when the employee puts in long hours, is a good team player, is always on-hand for whoever needs them and turns in big billables. Why? Because putting in long hours, being a good team player, the always available person is exactly what is expected of you.
To succeed, you must take charge of your own development. Here are some strategies to get you where you want to go in your career.
Raises are hard to ask for and when you do get one, you had better know whether it is good, bad or under market.
However, most people blow it because of the rationale and the way that they pose the question. But why is it that most reviews leave people feeling worse about themselves?
And while there are many tips and tricks to ask, plenty are pitfalls that could derail an otherwise perfect approach. Many are times when employees do everything right when asking for a raise, only to ruin everything with a single mistake.
It’s never good to take an uncalculated risk. Let’s explore what not to do when asking for a raise.
“Who are you?” asked Bill Campbell, Intuit’s CEO at the time I was sitting in his office discussing
business schools. I fumbled around for an answer, meandering all over the place, feeling not at all sure I had answered his question.
Next he asked, “Who is Sonya Sigler?” Yeah, this question just confirmed that I really hadn’t answered his first question. More fumbling around. Damn.
Finally, he said in an exasperated voice, “No, tell me what your top skills are.” More inarticulate answers. More fumbling.
Little did I know that he was giving me every opportunity to boldly state my elevator pitch, to share with him who I am at my essence, and what my top skills are. What a lost opportunity.