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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Friends Are All You Need, May 2025 - A Note to My Younger Self: Friends

Oh, the places you will go and the people you will meet! This work thing can be so all-consuming that your first years as an associate leave no room for much of anything (well, other than work). Then, you will make partner...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Building a Good Relationship with a Lawyer

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Hiring a lawyer is a major decision. You select someone to help you navigate a challenging, often emotional, situation, and you may spend a significant amount of money on their legal services. So how can you get the best...more

International Lawyers Network

Want to Be a Better Lawyer? Start by Being a Better Communicator

Being a good communicator is central to being a good lawyer. Last month, I sat in on a fireside chat between President Obama and the president of my alma mater, Hamilton College. As someone widely regarded as one of the most...more

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#LMA25 GC Panel Reveals What Clients Really Want From Law Firms

The In-House Counsel Panel at the 2025 Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Annual Conference offered something that our conference attendees always find valuable: unfiltered client insights....more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

What Law Firm Clients Really Want: Relationships, Reputation, and Responsiveness - On Record PR

Gina Rubel and Jennifer Simpson Carr unpack what clients are truly looking for from their outside counsel today, drawing directly from the candid insights shared during last week’s General Counsel panel at the Legal Marketing...more

Copo Strategies + Law Firm Editorial Service

Six reasons to avoid pop culture references in your thought leadership content

I appreciate the lengths some attorneys are wiling to go to inject creativity into their thought leadership to make it more enjoyable for their audiences to consume. Referencing pop culture or using trendy slang words is a...more

Kilpatrick

7 Key Takeaways | Dynamic Thinking for an Interpersonal Edge Roundtable Discussion Series for Legal and Business Professionals |...

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On January 9, 2025, Joe Dowdy (Raleigh Partner) and Colleen Bear (Senior Manager Talent Management and Coach) hosted the first of Kilpatrick’s monthly virtual roundtable discussions with in-house counsel to develop strategies...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Upping Your Business Development Game is a Powerful Succession Strategy

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If the revenue now brought in by senior partners is not replaced by the time they retire, their firms will inevitably contract. David Wood looks at the importance of BD coaching...more

Baker Donelson

Tips for Building a Legacy, Ten Minutes at a Time

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I have a confession to make. During my 28 years of practicing law, I never intentionally thought about "building a legacy." For me, the type of people who build legacies are trailblazers who endure great hardship and make...more

Baker Donelson

How to Build a Legacy by Asking, "What's Next?"

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When I was asked to write about my legacy, my first reaction was, am I old enough for that? But then I thought about the hip replacement I had last year. I've been going through old files and boxes lately, finding things...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Senior Partners are the Golden Ticket for Law Firms

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Coaching younger lawyers on BD is an obvious way to grow future rainmakers, but it should never be limited to partners in the first half of their careers....more

Baker Donelson

Baker's Dozen: What Does Leaving a Legacy Mean to You?

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What does it mean to leave a legacy? For some, it’s about mentorship and creating opportunities for those who follow. For others, it’s about building relationships, shaping a culture of inclusion, or making a lasting impact...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Collaboration Cannot Be Mandated, But It Can Be Orchestrated

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The latest in Clinton Gary's 10-part series exploring the CREDO 10 principles of collaborative growth for law firm leaders....more

International Lawyers Network

Taking It Offline: Why In-Person Connections Still Matter in a Virtual World

I was an early adopter of virtual networking. As an introvert and remote worker, for me, the ability to connect from my computer from wherever I am has a variety of benefits and always will – I know that I’m not alone in...more

Kilpatrick

7 Key Takeaways | Dynamic Thinking for an Interpersonal Edge Roundtable Discussion Series for Legal and Business Professionals |...

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On January 9, 2025, Joe Dowdy (Raleigh Partner) and Colleen Bear (Senior Manager Talent Management and Coach) hosted the first of Kilpatrick’s monthly virtual roundtable discussions with in-house counsel to develop strategies...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Collaborative Growth is Defined and Deliberate in Law Firms

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The latest in Clinton Gary's 10-part series exploring the CREDO 10 principles of collaborative growth for law firm leaders....more

Decipher Investigative Intelligence

Avoiding the Bad Client Surprise

Nearly 20 percent of lateral partner candidates neglect to provide a comprehensive list of their clients to their prospective firms, according to Decipher Investigative Intelligence research. This means that law firms that...more

U.S. Legal Support

Insights from U.S. Legal Support’s 2024 Litigation Support Trends Survey

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Each year, we conduct an industry-wide survey to better understand where our clients and partners stand on issues important to the legal industry and litigation support. This summary breaks down some of the most important...more

NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)

What Makes a Legacy?

At the 2024 Women's Bar Association of the State of New York's (“WBASNY”) annual Convention, during the Installation Ceremony of President Marea L. Wachsman, several friends and colleagues were invited to say a few words....more

Jaburg Wilk

Greatness is in the Agency of Others – Empower Success

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True greatness is based on our ability to unleash the potential of those around us. To do this you have to shift your focus from personal accomplishments to enabling others’ success. If you do so, your actions will have an...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Lessons Learned November 2024 - A Note to My Younger Self – Part IV

Email, email, email. Oh, the emails. I know I have written before about emails, but you can never get enough advice on this pesky, career-ending/career-making companion. It may be hard to believe, but when you start your...more

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

Lessons for Maintaining Work & Life Harmony I Learned During the Pandemic

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Returning to work after maternity leave at the start of a global pandemic, =  new fear unlocked.  Said completely unprecedented pandemic, plus a 3-month-old, a 5-year-old who would now also become my part-time co-worker &...more

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It’s Always a Good Time to Think About Your Goals

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Every day is a good day to think about and set goals. These can be short or long-term goals. Many people write New Year’s Resolutions and view that as the time to set goals or challenges. A lot of those same people are the...more

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

Some Thoughts on Hiking and Lawyering and Gratitude for the Same

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Last September I was on a Sandia Mountain hike with a friend who had not hiked this, or any other, mountain in over a decade. Because I like this person and did not want him to collapse in a place where mountain rescues are...more

JD Supra Perspectives

Legal CRM: What went wrong? (And how to fix it.)

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The best way to make CRM successful is to make it useful. Not useful to the partnership collectively, and not useful in a “pay-it-forward” kind of way, but useful to the individual partner who is deciding how to spend a few...more

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