How to Be Your Best Advocate: Insights From a Recruiter About the Gender Pay Gap
Your previous experience should be a springboard, not a limitation.
Younger Lawyers: What Are Your Career Goals?
Tell us about your more individualized and self-defined career goals!
Reasoning, Tool Calling, And Agentic Systems In Legal LLMs
Domain-specific AI provides accuracy and reliable legal reasoning.
What Do Millennial Lawyers Actually Think?
Asking about younger attorneys' priorities.
From The Career Files: New Year’s Resolutions For Lawyers
If we were honest with ourselves, we would admit that New Year’s Resolutions are rarely successful
From The Career Files: Why Lawyers Need To Pay Attention To Spirituality
According to many studies, lawyers (especially family lawyers) have some of the highest stress, depression, anxiety and addiction levels of any profession
How I Escaped Feeling Like A Fraud As An Attorney
I never fully aligned with the study or practice of the law.
Skills That Set Firms Apart
Legal expertise alone isn’t enough. Today’s most successful firms invest in developing the skills that drive collaboration, leadership, and business growth. Our on-demand, customizable training modules deliver practical, high-impact learning for attorneys and staff—when and where they need it.
From The Career Files: Empowering Proficiency With The Legal Tech Assessment
Ari Kaplan speaks with Casey Flaherty, the founder of Procertas and the creator of the Legal Tech Assessment
From The Career Files: What People Who Have Left The Law Do Differently
We’ve accomplished a lot of difficult things in our lives as attorneys
From The Career Files: Do You Have What It Takes To Be Self-Employed?
Where we live beyond our means, finance everything--from homes to cars--with loans from banks, and count on our bi-weekly paycheck to make a dent in all of the bills that we have.
From The Career Files: Strategies For Succeeding As A Solo
Ari Kaplan interviews Nancy Mertzel, the former chair of Herrick Feinstein’s Intellectual Property Group, who recently founded Mertzel Law PLLC, a boutique IP law firm.
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The Law Firm’s Guide To Trust Accounting And Three-Way Reconciliation
Proper trust accounting and three-way reconciliation are essential for protecting client funds and avoiding serious compliance risks. In this guide, we break down these critical processes and show how legal-specific software can help your firm stay accurate, efficient, and audit-ready.
From The Career Files: You Have A Choice To Make
There are two types of emotions in the world: love or fear.
From The Career Files: Doing The Ordinary Better Than Everyone Else Is A Hallmark Of Client Service
Ari Kaplan spoke with David Kempston, a Minnesota-based plaintiff's workers’ compensation lawyer, who is the self-published author of That's Why They Call It Practicing Law.
From The Career Files: Swimming Lessons For Baby Sharks, Practical Advice For New Lawyers
As a lawyer, completing legal projects is one of your primary functions. Not so for your client.
Disruption And The T-Shaped Associate: How Young Lawyers Should Look To Develop In A Transforming Industry
How should a young lawyer approach their career progression?
From The Career Files: The Law School Admission Game, Play Like An Expert, 3rd Ed.
The Law School Admission Game, first published in 2009, has been rewritten and updated as a third edition.