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Read More »For your (listening) enjoyment: Serial
Generation J.D. needs you!
Are you a young lawyer? Do you like to write? Would you like to write about being a young lawyer?
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Read More »Marketing Q&A: Social media
Questions about social media loom in the minds of many business owners and executives.
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Read More »Timeout
Young lawyers are often over-achievers, but sometimes you just have to put yourself in timeout.
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Read More »The 3 things I learned when I met Tony Hsieh
Meeting Tony Hsieh was one of the highlights of my professional career. Most people have heard of Zappos and some have even read Tony’s book, Delivering Happiness, but few get a chance to spend the afternoon hearing about how it all happened. So, I wanted to jot down what Tony taught me immediately – and share it with you.
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Read More »Being a lawyer means being the boss
Being a lawyer means being the boss. When I was in law school I remember always hearing the comment that, law school teaches you the law but it does not teach you how to be a lawyer. I still hear that comment from time to time, and obviously there is truth to the statement. I mean for better or for worse there is no class on billing hours.
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Read More »The inability to unwind
Lawyers are generally strung pretty tight. The edicts of our profession require us to perform different roles depending on our audience. According to the Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct's Preamble, "A lawyer, as a member of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." Add another layer of professional and personal requirements and one's responsibilities grows exponentially.
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Read More »In the blink of an eye
I saw my neighbor out walking the other day. I hadn’t seen her in a while and the first thought to go through my mind the instant I saw her was: “she’s lost weight.” As we drew closer and talked for a while, I realized that I wasn’t sure if she had or not. We weren’t talking about Biggest Loser territory. She just seemed a little slimmer. Her face seemed a little thinner…if that makes any sense.
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Read More »Hopkins apologizes to professor for blog removal
WASHINGTON — A Johns Hopkins University dean who asked a prominent computer scientist to remove a blog over a post he published about the National Security Agency has apologized for acting in haste. Hopkins engineering school dean Andrew Douglas said ...
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Read More »City considering tax breaks for market-rate apartment development
Legislation creating another set of city tax breaks for developers of “high performance,” market-rate apartments cleared a Baltimore City Council committee in a hearing Thursday.
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