Although I consider myself a healthy-ish person, I'm simply not active enough. Between juggling family and work, it is mission impossible to find enough time in my day to escape to the gym. As a busy trial lawyer, being active and always eating healthy becomes a struggle. Enter the Fitbit.

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It's easy to look at your latest legal victory and pat yourself on the back. But building a practice is more than your last victory. It’s building a reputation. It’s building a list of long-term clients by helping them with their latest issues (or looking around corners and navigating them before they have any problems).

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I know it is time to leave. That time will most likely come for you, too. And the most compelling reason to make a move is that you've taken a cold, hard look at your current situation and concluded that you are no longer growing as much as you could elsewhere.

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If you need a change of pace from the daily legal grind, look to your local neighborhood association for creative ways of serving your area, meeting new neighbors and having a lasting impact on your community.

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How trying to celebrate the Chinese New Year became my latest attempt at finding work/life balance -- and a comedy of errors.

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Stop being a slave to the billables for a few hours and recharge your batteries.

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We rode bikes, swam at the pool and built sandcastles of differing shapes and variety. In other words, my vacation was a vacation.

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I took the morning off today to take my kids to preschool. No, I didn’t go with them on their first day back this year, thanks to Hurricane Irene which delayed the start of school to a day on which ...

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Let me premise this post by saying that my comments are not intended in any way to belittle moms who stay at home. In fact, I think stay-at-home moms are some of the hardest working people. My mom was one ...

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I have been frantically trying to complete two weeks of work in a four-day time frame. For those of us lucky enough to get out of the office (for vacation or otherwise), a few days or full week away from ...

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