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3 Geeks and a Law Blog
The Power of Positive Peers
By Greg Lambert
Image [cc] MyEyeSees In a time when it is easier to point out what's wrong with the your profession, it is always enlightening to find someone that can still find…
The CPA Desk
New Additions to PKF Texas Director Group – Ryan Istre, Samir Jabiyev and Chris Hatten
By PKF Texas
At PKF Texas, one of our taglines is "PKF - People the Key to our Future." With this in mind, we're pleased to announce Ryan Istre, CPA, Samir Jabiyev, CPA…
Cordell Parvin Blog
Are You “Practicing” to Become a Better Lawyer?
If you are a regular reader you know my wife, Nancy, started playing golf when she was about 40. I should not give her age now except to say she…
Cordell Parvin Blog
15 Additional Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was a First Year Lawyer
I appreciate the great interest in the blog I posted yesterday 25 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was a First Year Lawyer. Several lawyers I coach, sent…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Ideas for Dealing with Toxic People
By Greg Lambert
Image [cc] serzhanja When I was a kid, I used to believe that everyone was nice, and that there was no such thing as a purposefully mean person… then I…
Cordell Parvin Blog
Business/Development Plan: Can I help you prepare your 2014 plan?
If you have read my recent posts, you know that I did a workshop for a law firm's associates to help them prepare their 2014 Development Plan. See: Law Firm Associates:…
Cordell Parvin Blog
Client Development Coaching: Who in your firm deserves coaching?
I received the answer to that question in an email I received Monday night, after making a lunch presentation to law firm associates on preparing their 2014 Development/Business plan. You…
The Legal Whiteboard
An Update on Milbank’s Big Bet
Two years ago, when all other large law firms were slashing expenses to prop up partner profits, Milbank Tweed went in the opposite direction and invested heavily in an executive…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Lisa Mazzie on “Public Speaking for Girl Lawyers”
By John Kang
Yes, I wrote “girl” in that headline. And for a very specific reason. Recently, it’s hit the web that global law firm Clifford Chance has provided its female lawyers in…
Law People
What About Just Being Nice?
By Ronda Muir
So you're not really feeling the love? Or even the compassion? How about being nice--can you at least get into being nice? Fitting nicely into our recent blog posts about…