Avoid a power vacuum after a partner dies.

The Day After a Partner Dies


How to maintain a chipper attitude while doing boring work.

Working on a Tedious Project? Smile through the Slog


Overwhelmed by alligators or legal research? Here's what to do.

Time to Search the Legal Swamp


Maximize the chance that someone will take your call.

The Art of the Cold Call


Layoffs, downsizing, rightsizing, firings: Protect yourself no matter what, or who, your law firm cuts.

Where Will Your Job Be in Five Years? Two? Six Months?

Welcome to your layoff: The news that K&L Gates has dumped possibly hundreds of support staffers (as reported by Above the Law), or, in law firm parlance, made “adjustments for the good of the firm and its…


Getting more clients with group coupons and daily deals

Don’t Diss Groupon

As much as it might be easy for any number of lawyers to dismiss sites like Groupon or other “deal of the day” opportunities as déclassé, these sites—and the offers they contain­—pose some grand potential…



Sportswear as legal educator

Career Tip from a Tee Shirt


Parking Temptation


Sculpture outside the White Plains, N.Y. City Court. Photo credit: L. Tripoli

Courthouse Art: Requiring Worship or Inspiring Liberty?

The last few years of civilian unrest against police makes me think about how the law is represented generally. Should a police presence be intimidating or reassuring? Should a hall of justice incite fear or…