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Making sure the prospective employee reads carefully, having current employees vet the candidate and other ideas.
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Read More »Take a real vacation this summer
Combining work with vacation means we don’t do either one well.
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Read More »Your legal career as an herb garden
The skills needed to maintain a healthy container herb garden and the skills that I aspire to improve upon as a young lawyer are surprisingly similar.
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Read More »The blame game
Own your mistakes as much as you own any of your successes.
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Read More »Nerves, again
Do you still get nervous at depositions and in court? Is there a 'right' amount of nervousness?
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Read More »Whereas, you should try to avoid legalese
Legal documents are yet another example of those things you don’t have to settle for simply because 'that’s the way they’ve always been.'
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Read More »Motivation and money
We clearly have a disconnect between what business owners think is a motivator and what really works for employees.
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Read More »My life as a TV show
What would a "Glee" series be like if you subbed in a new associate working in private practice in place of high school students?
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Read More »Law firms embrace the philosophy of ‘knowledge management’ in hopes of not being the people who lose the dinosaur
Imagine that your law firm has, squirreled away somewhere in storage, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. You own the bones of a six-ton prehistoric beast that could net big bucks and inspire envy among paleontologists everywhere.
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Read More »Law school job rates drop
Fewer students graduating from Maryland’s two law schools are finding jobs, but a greater number are obtaining employment that requires bar passage, according to data from the American Bar Association.
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