Join Us in Clubhouse
Collaborative conversation is one of our favorite benefits of Clubhouse. It really invites innovation and open dialogue in a way that other social media platforms simply cannot.
Leveraging Your Bar Benefits
As a lawyer, your bar association offers many benefits. Some of the benefits attorney members may take advantage of include, continuing legal education, networking events, and other perks such as hotel and travel discounts, clothing, dry cleaning, and fitness.
Building Your Network
Networking is all about building relationships. A great place to start building your professional network as an attorney is through a reciprocal relationship. Law students and lawyers alike should be thinking about building networking relationships to build their practice and career.
Focusing on the ABA
This week we are starting the conversation about the recent ABA Journal article, “ Are Women Lawyers Paying Enough Attention to Upward Mobility?”
Managing Client Expectations
Part of the pressure placed on lawyers comes from clients and their expectations. If you can optimize setting expectations for your clients that can relieve pressure from your shoulders.
Networking With Confidence
Networking is something that professionals think about regularly because it is critical to a successful practice. Yet, it can be intimidating, overwhelming, and time consuming. Do you feel like networking does not come naturally to you? You are not alone!
A Decade in Practice
We answered questions about our expectations before law school and then after law school, our biggest challenges, and whether we would do it all again, there are also some other questions that really resonated with us.
Your Professional reputation
When you think about your professional reputation, you first need to acknowledge that this is not about people “liking” you. Not everyone you come across will like you – no matter how you treat them. If this is your measure, you are setting yourself up for failure. Rather, we encourage you to think about your reputation as what people can expect from you when they interact with you professionally.
Amy’s LLM Journey
Getting an LLM in taxation is something that was always in the back of Amy’s mind as she worked in an estate planning firm with a tax focus. Finally, after seven years in practice, she felt ready to investigate. She was hesitate to go back to school, but wanted to learn more - what’s the harm in applying?
Imposter v. inexperienced
Imposter syndrome is something that affected both of us very significantly in law school. When you are put together in a competitive circumstance with the highest achievers from various aspects of life, feelings of inadequacy and not measuring up are commonplace.
Measuring Success
The key to true success for you is the why behind the goals you set for yourself. These must be tailored to fit your personal and professional values.
Finding balance
Balance is an illusion, and yet, a common goal. We strive for it, and likely you do too. But is it realistic?
Mission Statements
In this episode we discussed the importance of developing mission statements, the different aspects of your life you can develop missions statements for, and set out of framework to begin to develop your professional mission statement.
Your best work day
There are a few keys to setting yourself up for your best work day. The first is knowing yourself and how you work. However, this self-awareness is not enough because, if it was, we would all be able to work efficiently more easily. But you need to take that awareness of how you work and identify strategies that help you in your work day and things that are less effective ways of accomplishing your tasks.
list lovers
We both really love using lists in many aspects of our lives because they help us get a grip so things do not spiral out of control, and if we start a downward spiral it is an easy way to bring us back.
Meet the lawyers who launch
We are law school besties who met on the very first day of law school orientation. We could never have known then how this chance encounter was going to impact our futures; all we knew was we found a friendly face and an instant connection.