You passed the bar and are committed to building your firm and practice. The billable hour has become second nature to you, but somehow you are still working at 10 p.m. on a Tuesday, wondering where the money went. The good news is that clarity is the more solvable...
You passed the bar. If you’re like most attorneys, you survived law school on caffeine and controlled panic. You can hold three competing legal theories in your head simultaneously while drafting a motion and pretending to listen to a partner’s monologue about...
The most important thing any of us can do, in every aspect of our lives, is to seek out our blind spots. Often, we label ourselves: lazy, underperforming, not living to our potential. In reality, you still possess the drive that got you through three years of law...
Most attorneys track their time. Very few track what their time actually costs them. There is a number on your invoice, and then there is the number that never appears anywhere, the one that inevitably gets deducted from your mental account every time you open a new...
You can track every six minutes of your day with the precision of a Swiss watch and still have no idea why your firm feels harder to run than it should. The hours are logged, the clients are emailing “just circling back,” and the revenue is… theoretically making its...
When I was a young lawyer, I could outline an argument in my sleep and spot a weak clause from across the room. I thrived on being seen as intelligent and driven. I imagine that you do too. Yet there are stretches where you are working nonstop and somehow not gaining...
