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Cordell Parvin Blog
Proven Way to Teach Client Development to Your Lawyers in 2016
Suppose for a moment that your top business producers began retiring, what would be the impact on your firm? Would your firm keep their clients or lose them? If these…
Animal Law Update
Inspiring Women in STEM Conference
I was fortunate enough to attend a truly amazing, thought-provoking and inspiring conference presented by BioNJ, titled Inspiring Women in STEM Conference on December 4, 2015. As described on its…
Cordell Parvin Blog
What Are You Reading?
What are you reading for your career? Seth Godin recently posted: Did you do the reading? I always "did the reading." What kind of reading? First, I read everything I could…
MS Litigation Review & Commentary
Book Review: Typography For Lawyers, 2nd Ed., by Matthew Butterick
You know you are a law geek when you get excited reading a book called Typography for Lawyers. Guilty. Matthew Butterick's book first reviewed on this site in 2011 is…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
41st Annual USC School of Law Trust and Estate Conference
The University of Southern California is presenting the 41st Annual USC Gould School of Law Trust and Estate Conference at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles on November 20, 2015.…
Cordell Parvin Blog
What Your Young Lawyers Want from Law Firm Leaders
Marshall Goldsmith, motivation, team
Texas Bar Blog
Pursuing professional goals through the Texas Bar College
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well.” —Isaac Asimov, author…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Re-entry Program for Women Lawyers Expands
By Tracy Thomas
Re-Entry Program for Women Lawyers ExpandsThe OnRamp Fellowship, which connects women lawyers who have taken a hiatus for at least two years with jobs at law firms and companies, is expanding. The…
Cordell Parvin Blog
How the “Super Lawyers” Keep Getting Better
Every year there are various lists of "Super Lawyers." Here is the link to the TOP 50: 2014 WOMEN TEXAS SUPER LAWYERS - TOP LIST. In my career I have been…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
How My Bathroom Renovation is Making Me into a Better Lawyer
We are on week six of a bathroom remodel that has all six in our household sharing a half-bath...while potty-training our two year old. Currently, there is no end in…