Career Management, Career Tips, Networking, Presentation

Life Post COVID: (Re)Building a Strong Network

On August 8, 2021

COVID got you re-thinking your life? Here are some great tips from Chris Fralic, SV veteran and VC, to be a better person AND build a strong network. (Check out the entire post by First Round Review, launched by First Round Capital to share information how to build technology companies here.) Be human to every […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Job Search, LinkedIn

How to Make Opportunities Come to You

On July 31, 2021

Most lawyers, when they’re ready to make a move, check out job postings to see what’s available, dust off their resume, and apply. Don’t be like most lawyers! Get ahead of the curve and make make opportunities come to you. How do you do that? This article summarizes the advice of Harvard career services advisor […]

Career Tips

Fast Company lists seven skills recruiters supposedly value. Do I?

On May 2, 2021

Fast Company listed seven skills recruiters value. I checked them out, and it turns out I am impressed if you show these seven because employers are looking for them too. They also mean you will do well on the job too! 1. Emotional Intelligence. Can you read situations and approach them sensitively? So much of law is not […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Presentation

How to Think about Returning to Work: 5 Factors

On April 3, 2021

The US economy is “roaring back!” As employers added close to a million jobs last month, they are now thinking about how to return employees to the office. I appreciated Microsoft’s thoughtful study on remote work. On the one hand, 61% of leaders believe people are “thriving” and see “high productivity,” but on the other, […]

Career Management, Career Tips

What is the secret code for success? 5 things

On March 29, 2021

Is there some secret code to achieving success? Here are five things about successful lawyers, not secret at all and worth laying out concretely: Successful lawyers are memorable. My favorite candidates I call for top jobs are the ones that have impressed me usually due to a mix of their on-point skills and personality. They […]

Career Tips, LinkedIn, Resume

3 Basic Things to Do For Your Career

On March 29, 2021

You may be happy at your job and not looking to change. But here are the three minimum things you should always do for your career. LinkedIn presence. Put up a picture, describe your job, and list your key skills. Even if you are not on the job market, you should have a digital presence. […]

Career Tips, Inhouse, Interview, Job Search, Networking

Top 5 Reasons Lawyers are Rejected (& What to Do About it!)

On January 24, 2021

My job is to find lawyers for my clients, and these companies are picky! What are the top reasons they reject people? Not having on-point experience. If a SaaS company is looking to fill a commercial counsel role, then it wants someone who already has been negotiating and drafting software agreements, ideally in-house (the reason […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Networking, Presentation

What Are You Known For? Tips to Grow Your Skills & Reputation

On December 13, 2020

Your reputation is key to your career, but most people give it little thought. For example, Jennifer Miller, the esteemed GC of Loon (Alphabet sub), confesses in Corporate Counsel Magazine as a young lawyer she made “the false assumption that simply keeping your head down and doing good work is all that is needed in order […]

Career Tips, Networking

3 Easy & High-Impact Things to Do for Your Career

On October 18, 2020

Are there easy things you can do for your career that will make a difference? Absolutely! Below are three that I bet you haven’t thought of! Ask friends who are happy at their jobs to refer you when they get called by a recruiter. Pick friends whose jobs you like to ensure calls from the […]

Career Tips, Women & Minorities

RIP RBG. She Left Us Good Advice

On September 19, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has departed this world, but left words to guide us. She wrote “advice to the living” a few years ago for the New York Times: Be a little deaf. “I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune […]

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