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Mitigating Lawyer Burnout: Tips for Legal Leaders

Legal professionals face a high-pressure environment, juggling demanding clients and complex legal issues. This constant pressure to...

Master Your Time: Effective Calendar Management for Law Firm Partners

As a law firm partner, your time is one of your most valuable assets. The demands of managing client cases, business development, and...

Is Your Law Practice Ready for AI Coaching?

The legal landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. Technological advancements and changing client expectations mean there is more...

Top Leadership Challenges in Law Firms and How to Overcome Them

Leadership in law firms isn't for the faint of heart. The constant pressure of developing business, meeting client expectations, and...

Essential Leadership Skills for Successful Law Firm Partners

As the practice of law evolves, so too must your leadership and management skills. This is especially true for law firm partners and...

Why Every Law Firm Partner Needs a Strong Support Network

Stepping into partnership can feel like the leveling up your math in school. You learned the rules and managed to turn the confusion of...

Healthy Organizational Culture: More Than Just 'Thick Skin

I worked with a client once whose idea of 'developing' new members of the organization was to berate and belittle them until they...

Leadership is Jazz. Start Getting Creative.

I had a great discussion a few weeks ago with Joe Dimino for his Famous Interviews podcast. It was a lot of fun, and Joe steered our...

Optimism and Caution (But Mostly Optimism) For the Future of GenAI In Your Law Firm

You can’t swing a stick these days without seeing another article or discussion about ChatGPT and other generative artificial...

The ROI of Leading With Values

When I talk with firms and new partners about what leadership coaching looks like, I often talk about exploring and defining our values...

5 More Reasons Leadership Matters for 'Lawyers Who Aren't In Charge'

I wrote recently about 5 ways leadership matters, even for lawyers who aren't 'in charge.' It's definitely worth the read, but if you...

3 Things Flying Helicopters Taught Me About Leading Lawyers

It's been a long time since I've been at the controls of a helicopter, but my professional life started as a Blackhawk pilot in the U.S....

Leadership for Lawyers? 5 Reasons to Care About Leadership, Even If You're Not 'In Charge'

As busy attorneys, it's easy for us to see terms that don't crop up in our practice every day and assume they have no relevance for us. ...

Being a Lawyer is More Than Charting Your Career - This One Thing Gets You Started

Giving career advice is tricky. On one hand, you don't want to presume that everything you learned on your road to success will apply...

Stop "Doing the Right Things" and Start Being a Leader

I had the opportunity last week to reconnect with friends and executive coaching colleagues and to reflect a little bit on what makes...

You're Ethically Required to Be Better At This

While my practice as a lawyer started in the military criminal courtroom, for the last decade, my practice has been focused on ethics and...

Memorial Day and the Cost and Value of Being There

Memorial Day is not a day I typically celebrate publicly. Like other military service related or patriotic holidays, I have conflicted...

Being Little Is A Big Problem

Creating a collaborative team and generating loyalty to the firm and your clients isn't rocket science. At this point, I hope I don't...

My Problem With Legal Mentoring And How To Fix It With Two Small Changes

If your law firm wants to make an impact in your law firm in the areas of associate well-being, retention, professional opportunities and...

Culture Isn't Hybrid, Remote, or In-Office. It's Communication.

I'm glad I exercised a little strategic patience in responding to a friend's question a few weeks ago about building and sustaining law...

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