Celeste Harrison Forst

Sometimes work is too busy, life is too intense, and either your activities suffer or you suffer.

There has to be at least one thing you can derive a benefit from in your workplace. Find it, pursue it, and benefit from it.

If you are using a colleague’s absence to promote yourself, you are contributing to a culture of discouraging vacation, and in the end, that hurts you.

Sometimes in-house counsel need to go back to the basics, especially when they become frustrated with how their negotiations are progressing.

There’s no reason to start treating a former client as an adversary. Keep communications civil.

Your work at work is a constant, but the margin is where you can create your own joy.

Releasing imperfect work is something we all have to do and, for most of us, it is something we learn on the job.

Once lawyers know how to improve the situation at work, we no longer have an excuse for tolerating the status quo.

Law does not have a reputation of being the sort of industry that inspires and motivates its participants, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

The minimum one can do is be aware of the importance of workplace culture. How much you can adapt without betraying your own authenticity?

As a lawyer -- and particularly, for in-house lawyers -- how can we use apologies?

How can lawyers, with an obligation to zealously advocate for our clients, take a risk on Originals?

In-house columnist Celeste Harrison Forst gives tips on how to pitch your services to clients.

What's the best way to pitch your firm to an in-house client?

Don't belittle your colleagues. Make them shine, and in turn, improve your workplace relationships.

How can you be a team player and taken on menial tasks when you have real work to do?

Law firms that are able to change quickly and meet their clients’ business needs will be the ones with an advantage in the future.

If you are interacting with someone who invokes the “strong and wrong” technique, do you automatically roll over?

If employees are confident in their trust of each other, they can then focus on the work they are paid to do. When the team is stronger, we are stronger.

Is the legal profession a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie?