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Career Mobility
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Be a Better Lawyer Podcast
227: Confidence & Making Time with Judith Gaton
By Dina Cataldo
Today I want to introduce you to my new friend, Judith Gaton. She's smart, she's sassy, and she has a fashion sense. Judith also happens to be a former managing…
Lawyerist
Recession Fears Lead Lawyers to Alternative Careers
By Lawyerist
Lawyers, worried about how a recession will potentially affect their careers, are starting to explore uncommon options. According to a July 11 poll by Magnify Money, a Lending Tree Company,…
Employee Rights Blog
Making a Career Change: Look Before You Leap
Many workers are thinking of making a career change or leaving secure employment, and one recent Bloomberg article explores the numerous benefits of changing your career every decade. Below, we…
SLRC blog
How Can Coaching Help you Build Your Practice, Develop Your Leadership Skills, or Make a Successful Career Transition?
I hired my first business coach over twenty years ago. At that time, I was just beginning to understand the power of coaching in a business context. I have always…
InfoTrack Twenty
Famous former legal professionals and their path away from the law
For many people, becoming a lawyer is a dream come true. Whether they’re attracted to the money, the power, or the ability to impact and protect justice, there are lawyers…
The Social Media Butterfly
How Being Fired Can Be the Best Thing That Happens to You
For anyone who has been recently let go or fired from their jobs, I just want to say things do get better and you will be OK. You are not…
Explorations with Information and Technology
No Take Backs
By David Whelan
I recently handed off a project I’d been running for a couple of years. It’s not the first time I’ve gone through this sort of transfer. Sometimes it’s leaving and…
The Social Media Butterfly
Why Right Now is the Right Time to Go After What You Want
Let's normalize finding success at any age. Finding love at any age. Breaking free of unhealthy relationships at any age. Having the family you always wanted at any age. Starting a new career or…
My Shingle
FREE Facebook Live: From Biglaw to YourLaw
Back in 2008, before the thousands of big law associate layoffs that would come in 2009, I threw together this online e-book, From Biglaw to Yourlaw, urging large firm attorneys…
A Pursuit of Justice
Transitioning Off the Bench and Then Some
By Steven Platt
My transition off The Bench was punctuated by my entry into several worlds which differed greatly from “The Bench,” but also from each other. This was not inadvertent. Rather,…