Presenting Effectively as a Lawyer Even with Self-Doubt

On April 18, 2021
In Interview, Presentation, Women & Minorities

Clients tell me their chief complaint about lawyers is they are so bad at communicating. Why are they constantly hedging? Can’t they just break things down and explain the likelihood of events? Um, no. We lawyers are taught to examine all risk so we have a hard time prioritizing them and don’t want to be wrong. On […]

On April 11, 2021
In LinkedIn, Presentation

Indeed.com is a website I use regularly and has the pulse on hiring. Put in the title “counsel” and your keyword plus metro area, and the site generates an accurate and comprehensive snapshot of the job market. So when the Wall Street Journal interviewed the Indeed CEO Chris Hyams, I paid attention to what he […]

On April 3, 2021
In Career Management, Career Tips, Presentation

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, […]

On December 13, 2020
In Career Management, Career Tips, Networking, Presentation

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 […]

On November 10, 2020
In Presentation

I spoke on executive presence earlier this week at NAPABA’s annual convention, along with Caroline Tsai, CLO of Western Union, Shaila Ohri, AGC Exelon, Nydia Han, ABC anchor/investigative reporter, and Jennifer Chow Bevan, executive & leadership coach at Path Relaunch. Executive presence is “more than the ability to attract attention when entering a room; it is about the ability to demonstrate […]

On October 5, 2020
In Presentation, Resume

As a legal recruiter, I spend much of my time assessing potential in-house counsel for my clients, who range from unicorns to Fortune 500 companies. What am I looking for when I review your resume? The top five below: Your credentials. My clients first want to know where you went to school, when you graduated, […]

On July 18, 2020
In Inhouse, Presentation

Big firms train their associates to analyze complex matters and completely mitigate risk. These big-firm trained lawyers often go in-house and face a different set of expectations. A Silicon Valley exec who has worked at VC-backed startups, private family-owned and public Fortune 100 companies broke down for me what he is looking for from in-house […]

On July 10, 2020
In Career Tips, Presentation

I loved this recent LinkedIn video interview with Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo. She gives her top career advice, including a special tip for lawyers: Don’t fixate on being CEO [or CLO]. Then you get focused on your next job and the job after that. Your focus should be on your current job. She […]

On June 26, 2020
In Interview, Presentation

The Stanford Graduate School of Business reports that we respond to the (over) confidence of upper-class workers, even when they’re wrong. The result is “we may be reinforcing an already unfair social hierarchy” since rich confident people have an immediate advantage when walking into the room. “We can’t help but fall for their bravado, endowing them […]

On May 31, 2020
In Presentation, Recruiter

I read with interest this recent CNBC article on how recruiters purportedly select and interview candidates during the pandemic. Since legal recruiting is so specialized, I would say to disregard half the advice given: Do not “get creative with tech.” Law is a traditional field, and resumes of top candidates look polished, not edgy. The article […]

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