Monthly Archives: August 2015
What is a Successful Legal Career?
August 25, 2015
By Ellen Ostrow – (Originally Published in the Women Lawyers Journal; 2015, VOL. 100, NO. 3) If asked to evaluate your career – as of this moment – as successful or not, how would you react? What would determine your conclusion? Had you prevailed in court last week, perhaps you would respond with an emphatic “successful.” But had
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Critical for Lawyer Success – Continual Growth
August 10, 2015
By Heather Bock, Lori Berman, and Juliet Aiken – According to our research, lawyers who make partner within ten years of practice, as compared to lawyers who after 11 years have not make it to partner, are masters of their fate, calibrators, and highly networked. And, promotion to partner aside, lawyers who are healthy–in that they avoid minor
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Talent People: Do Your Associates Know What Partners Want From Them?
August 4, 2015
By Courtney Dredden Carter – In interviews with more than two hundred high performing partners at AmLaw 200 law firms (through my work with the Diversity Lab), I have had the opportunity to glean what these partners value in terms of their colleagues – and particularly what they value in the associates with whom they work. While
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