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Junior Associate Corner: Enhance Your Reputation Through Your Verbal Communications

This is our second of two posts addressing communications. All too often junior associates undermine their reputation through timid or unclear voicemail messages, or by delivering poorly thought out answers …

Junior Associate Corner: Enhance Your Reputation Through Your Written Communications

In order to solidify their place within their firms, young attorneys need to focus on building positive reputations early on. Communication can form the cornerstone of that reputation so it …

Preparing for a Timely Interview Question

As part of our ongoing transition coaching, we help prepare clients for in-house interviews. In recent weeks, several clients reported that one of the questions we prep them for came …

Junior Associate Corner: Be Open-Minded

Unexpectedly wonderful things can happen if you just say “yes”. At this juncture in your career, it’s possible that you might not always recognize the opportunities in front of you …

What do Millennials Value in the Workplace?

According to an article recently published in Inc. (see link below), Millennials value having a variety of professional development opportunities at work. According to author, J.T. O’Donnell, since this particular …

Act Like a Leader

In business, leadership roles are often given to individuals who look and act like leaders; it is not necessarily based solely upon merit or intellectual mastery. People with executive presence …

Junior Associate Corner: It is Your Career – Relationships Matter

Our big picture message to junior associates is to always be proactive in charting your career. Today the focus is on relationships. When you are starting out at a new …

ASSESSMENT: How Does the World See You? (and how can you leverage that information)?

We encourage our clients to learn how their colleagues, friends, customers, etc., perceive them as they look to develop and refine their individual brand. We are fans of Sally Hogshead …

Getting the Interviews, But Not the Offers

Today’s job market is very competitive and therefore it is important to pull out all the stops when preparing for interviews. What can you do to increase your chance of …

Lawyers With Lowest Pay Report More Happiness

An interesting read from the New York Times:     well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/lawyers-with-lowest-pay-report-more-happiness/?ref=todayspaper&_r=0