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A visit to my daughter's third-grade class showed me there are quite a few skills that we as lawyers should adopt.

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If you can't resist, you should have an attorney on speed dial who does not dabble in attorney grievance cases.

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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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