The First 10: A Young Lawyer’s Blueprint Beyond The Billable Hour
Your first decade will not unfold in a straight line. Some years will feel like acceleration. Others will feel like survival. Keep building anyway.
Your first decade will not unfold in a straight line. Some years will feel like acceleration. Others will feel like survival. Keep building anyway.
A nonfiction book can build your reputation, sharpen your thinking, and help others. But only if you stop talking about writing it and begin.
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.
These are lessons learned after hundreds of presentations, seminars, webinars, speeches, and courtroom appearances.
Helpful tips and tricks so you can be a successful lawyer.
The most successful lawyers understand that marketing is not something separate from practicing their profession.
Leadership starts with service.
New executive research from Ari Kaplan explores how law firm leaders are responding to changing client expectations, evolving economics, talent transformation, and AI governance.
Volunteering for a bar association gives you a broader view of the profession. It reminds you that the law is a community.
Lawyers are paid to deal with conflict. The better ones learn how to reduce the heat, find the issue, and move the conversation forward.
The best hearing lawyers make it easier for the judge to rule in their favor.
The challenge has always been doing what works consistently enough for results to appear.
A conversation with Trustpoint.One CEO Christopher Gallagher.
How lawyers can stay relevant, valuable, and employed.
We learn the most from the moments that humble us. The polished moments may build our reputation, but the painful moments build our judgment.
What young lawyers need to learn before the calendar takes over.
Month by month, it sounds less strange. Year by year, it becomes less optional. Over 25 years, it has become the world.
Associates need to read the writing on the wall before the wall becomes the door.