Career Management, Mentors

5 McKinsey partner lessons that apply to lawyers

  • On April 11, 2026
Lawyers and management consultants share similarities: both advise on high-stakes matters in a client-service model. What can lawyers learn from go-getters who just made partner at McKinsey? This article talks to four new partners. I saw five recurring themes that apply to lawyers who are part of large teams and want to rise: Develop your […]
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best law schools for your career in CA

  • On April 5, 2026
What are the best law schools for your career? California law schools with the highest bar pass rates: Stanford (100%!), UCLA (96.4%), USC (92.9%), UC Davis (92.9%), UC Berkeley (92.8%), Pepperdine (90.7%), UC Irvine (90.3%). (Source: California State Bar) Non-California schools with 100% pass rates here (with at least 8 test takers): BYU, Cornell, NYU, […]
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Change, Market

Are All Lawyers Screwed by AI? Actually No

  • On March 14, 2026
Anthropic analyzed which jobs AI impacts the most. (See here for summary.) The hardest hit jobs (where AI is already performing 67-75% of tasks): coders, customer service reps, data entry workers. The next hardest hit: financial analysts (AI does modeling and number-crunching well), office administrators (facing 90% theoretical exposure even if adoption is lagging), and […]
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Career Management, Inhouse, Move

How risky is it to join a startup?

  • On March 7, 2026
Lawyers are risk-averse by nature; our job is to minimize risk. But the good news is if you join a startup that fails, “your career should be fine” per WSJ. A recent Yale and Cornell study of 2.2 million workers shows that while executives may be “tainted” by working at a company that failed, rank-and-file […]
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Market

How hard is it to land a remote job?

  • On March 1, 2026
How hard is it to land a remote job?  Not impossible, but it’s getting harder, especially in law. WSJ reports the “remote work dream isn’t dead” but is “slipping away.” Why is it so difficult? The total job market is shrinking, and the portion of remote jobs has dropped to around 8% from a high […]
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LinkedIn

Is your Linkedin profile helping you? An easy way to tell

  • On February 17, 2026
Because our job is to minimize risk and avoid notice by regulators, lawyers generally have unmemorable LinkedIn profiles. But did you know that prospective employers check out your profile? To increase your odds of landing the job you want, your profile should lay out your top skills and make clear your career trajectory. But this […]
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Market

Making sense of mixed signals of the job market & California economy

  • On February 13, 2026
US January job numbers were surprisingly positive: unemployment remains low, and 131,000 jobs were added tothe market. But the New York Times explains these gains are mostly in healthcare and largely offset the previous year’s job cuts. In California, the Mercury News reported on mixed signals: On the plus side, California’s economy is valued at […]
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