Beyond Biglaw: 3 Tips For Repeat Success
What separates true winners from those who merely get lucky is a thoughtful approach to planning for the next success.
The Candidate Coup: Are Associates Seizing Control Of The Market?
There has never been a better time for an associate to make a lateral move.
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
From The Career Files: Essentials For A Mentor Considering An Investment In A Mentee
Mentorship helps mentees make better career moves, improve their work product, increase their professional self-awareness and understand firm nuances.
Biglaw Partners Dish: On-Campus Interview Disasters
Don't do these things.
This Is Why Working In Biglaw Sucks So Hard
Biglaw would be okay, for most people anyway, if going to work every day didn't fill them with a sick sense of dread and the certain knowledge their soul was slowly being sucked away.
Back In The Race: Why Do We Glorify Busyness In Business?
Ultimately, what's it all for?
AI Is Killing Legal’s Billable Hour. It’s Also Repeating Its Worst Mistake
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
The Road Not Taken: Margin Call
Your work at work is a constant, but the margin is where you can create your own joy.
From The Career Files: Even More Practical Advice For New Lawyers
Most students should work to expand their professional networks and refine their writing skills.
Reinventing The Law Business: How Do I Make Partner In A Biglaw Firm? Tell Me The Truth, For Heaven’s Sake
Four tips from managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld.
Non-Sequiturs: 08.03.16
* What, exactly, did it take for Donald Trump to evade avoid the draft? [PrawfsBlawg]
* The Supreme Court just temporarily blocked a court order allowing a transgender teen to use the bathroom according to their identity. [CNN]
* Just in time for your $180K scale... Eric Schneiderman loses a talking point, and New Yorkers can all go back to making a killing at DraftKings. [Associated Press]
* FBI arrests DC law enforcement officer for helping ISIS. If he was as good a terrorist as DC is at policing, then maybe we should have left him out there. [ABC News]
* The battle over tougher bar passage standards rages on. [WSJ Law Blog]
* And the Tim Kaine love letter about law school. [ABA Journal]
* A good website really is key to a thriving, modern law practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice]
* The ten-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Robert Wone. [Who Killed Robert Wone?]
Filevine’s New Legal AI Platform LOIS Turns AI Into A True Legal Coworker
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
How A Law Professor Gained Perspective On Law School Woes
Obsessing on a problem causes ripple effects. Stop dwelling on your problems.
Clients Need You. It’s Your Job To Help Them Realize They Can Afford You.
How do you educate a prospectivge client that doing it by himself is not necessarily the right or best answer?
The Road Not Taken: Enemy Of The Good Enough
Releasing imperfect work is something we all have to do and, for most of us, it is something we learn on the job.
Top 5 Signs You’re Ready To Go In-House
When charting the course of your legal career, is going in-house right for you?
From The Career Files: Using Anger As A Tool For Your Career
Like many emotions, anger serves a purpose.