BigLaw associate’s admonition to be available 24/7 with ‘no exceptions, no excuses’ goes viral

Home Daily News BigLaw associate’s admonition to be available… Law Firms BigLaw associate’s admonition to be available 24/7 with ‘no exceptions, no excuses’ goes viral By Debra Cassens Weiss April 6, 2023, 9:30 am CDT A Paul Hastings associate’s best-practices advice to junior colleagues in an internal presentation wasn’t that far off the mark, legal … Read more

Humanizing the Process: A new approach to interviewing for law firms

By Marcus G. Ollig For the past 20 years in the legal recruiting business, my firm, the Advocates, has focused on helping our clients land key lateral attorneys and improve retention through several unique processes designed to match candidates’ personalities to the right law firm and corporate cultures for them. For us, the matching of … Read more

Florida judges can no longer get CLE credit for general ‘fairness and diversity’ courses, state supreme court says

Home Daily News Florida judges can no longer get CLE credit… Judiciary Florida judges can no longer get CLE credit for general ‘fairness and diversity’ courses, state supreme court says By Debra Cassens Weiss February 6, 2023, 8:37 am CST Illustration by Sara Wadford/ABA Journal/Shutterstock. Florida judges can no longer take “fairness and diversity” courses … Read more

As more law firms adopt 3-day-per-week schedule, one ties attendance to cash

Home Daily News As more law firms adopt 3-day-per-week schedule,… Practice Management As more law firms adopt 3-day-per-week schedule, one ties attendance to cash By Debra Cassens Weiss January 26, 2023, 3:14 pm CST Image from Shutterstock. As more law firms mandate or encourage three days per week in the office, one is using the … Read more

Law is the most stressful profession, newspaper’s analysis finds

Home Daily News Law is the most stressful profession, newspaper’s… Careers Law is the most stressful profession, newspaper’s analysis finds By Debra Cassens Weiss January 24, 2023, 12:48 pm CST Image from Shutterstock. The most stressful occupation in the United States is being a lawyer, according to an analysis by the Washington Post of data … Read more

Legal career lessons from Mount Everest

For many of us, building a legal career is like climbing a mountain. It’s an obvious analogy; you put in lots of hard work, never taking your eye off the prize at the top. Working through the pain by visualizing the euphoric view at the peak. After thousands of hours spent climbing toward the top, … Read more

Meet 12 ABA members who inspired us in 2022

Home Daily News Meet 12 ABA members who inspired us in 2022 Year in Review: Members Who Inspire Meet 12 ABA members who inspired us in 2022 By Amanda Robert December 14, 2022, 8:38 am CST In this year’s Members Who Inspire series, the ABA Journal featured 12 extraordinary ABA members who go to great … Read more

Top 8 Your Voice columns of 2022

Diversity and inclusion, stress management, mental health and practice management are some of the major areas of focus among legal professionals today. And contributors to the ABA Journal’s Your Voice column certainly brought these concepts front and center in 2022. The ABA Journal launched Your Voice in 2018 to offer space for lawyers to discuss … Read more

How an Am Law 200 firm created an incubator program for associates to learn business, leadership skills

In early 2020, as the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to set in, our leadership team tapped into an unexpected source of inspiration: My dog—an intrepid cavalier King Charles spaniel named Rocky. Rocky is the quintessential adapter and innovator. Put in any situation, Rocky can see around corners and anticipate opportunities, whether it’s … Read more