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If even a non-lawyer pop singer and a Maryland jurist can agree on the value of one’s professional and personal reputation, it is probably worth young lawyers giving this some thought.

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To those attorney-parents out there, I wish you an enjoyable last week of calm.

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Lawyers are a client service industry and we frequently tout our “client responsiveness” when we market ourselves. But there is a certain balance that we can (and should) strike.

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From the potential client’s perspective, it is perhaps the most important question. From the attorney’s perspective, it is the ultimate trap question.

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How can young attorneys best position themselves to deal with the disruption caused by a departing colleague?

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Here are five skills that we would have loved to learn in the one credit seminar “Networking 101.”

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As attorneys, we have an ethical obligation to make sure that our clients’ interests are always protected, even (and often) to a point after our representation ends.

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Life is too short and practice is too difficult to do work that you don’t enjoy, for one.

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When our bar association booked the deputy attorney general to speak for Law Day many, many months ago, none of us could have foreseen the back of the ballroom packed with television cameras.

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As somebody who reluctantly embraces change, the past few weeks (and the weeks ahead) will be disruptive, unsettling, exhausting and exciting

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