It’s a rainy, made-for-tea kind of day, and the start of another work from home week thanks to the global corona virus pandemic. I am fortunate that the virus has not really impacted my work life. I typically work out
I always knew that someday I would leave Wisconsin. My husband’s work demanded it. But when that day came, I found myself completely overwhelmed by the job search/joining a new bar process even though I had spent months preparing for
On March 9, I am joining forces with Amanda Sexton from FocusWorks Marketing for a workshop on blogging and podcasting for lawyers. The event is being hosted by the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Attendees
If you are a young associate or a solo practitioner, you are probably sick of hearing you need to network your way to being a successful lawyer. As if you had time to do that, or if you have time,
I’m currently being inundated with emails and snail mail from a company desperate to sell me a plaque I can hang on my wall, which will entitle me to proclaim myself to be something like the Most Awesomest Attorney EVER!
People in general, and lawyers especially, like to know how things work. We all worry that “kids these days” don’t know that the food on their plates isn’t magically generated by the grocery store. We watch videos on YouTube of
Many attorneys do not realize they have access to the digital exhaust potential and current clients have spewed into the world, but every firm that has a standard intake form, maintains a website or posts on social media holds a
Last fall I was a guest on “The Bold Sidebar” podcast with Attorney Jeff Horn. We talked a lot about tailoring and measuring your marketing efforts, and a little bit about the Green Bay Packers. You can listen to the
1. Lighting!The two photos in this post were taken a minute apart. I didn’t change my make-up and I’m not using a filter in either picture. Shutting a curtain that was letting in a lot of light behind me, and
When people tell me they don’t know what to write about I tell them to write something they would like to read.I took my own advice this year as chair of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Nonresident Lawyers Division’s communications