Professional Development

New Attorneys

Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer

By Grover Cleveland

Article | Excerpt from “Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks,” career advice about grit, resilience, diligence, and persistence to help you grow and become successful as a new lawyer.

New Attorneys

6 Ways That’ll Get You Taken Seriously At Work Right From The Start

By Avery Blank

Article | Start showing your value and earning respect even at the earliest stages of your career or a new position.

Professional Development

Delivering Bad News Artfully… Even to Difficult People

Presented by Delee Fromm, Robert White, and Kathy Morris

Video | In an adversarial profession, attorneys must learn how to handle and diffuse tough interactions. Explore the triggers which cause people to react aggressively to bad news and how to anticipate or temper it.

Professional Development

5 Types of Frustrating Communicators: Are You One?

By Anusia Gillespie, JD, MBA

Article | If you’re frustrated by poorly phrased emails or texts (e.g., ones that ask you to do something but give no timeframe, or you’re just cc’d with no context), explore the 5 common stress-inducing communication archtypes to make sure you’re not falling into one of them. This can help both in maintaining better relationships and boosting your personal brand.

New Attorneys

Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: Keeping Your “Filter” on in Person and on Social Media

By Grover E. Cleveland

Article | 4 tips for exercising discretion in conversations in work settings and online.

New Attorneys

Saying No

By Grover E. Cleveland

Article | It's okay to say no sometimes! Learn how to decline work gracefully with these 12 helpful tips.

Professional Development

Leading and Managing Diversity, Inclusion, and High Performance

Presented by Robert White and E. Macey Russell

Our esteemed panelists will share their perspectives on what diversity and inclusion mean, the progress we’ve made and the challenges we continue to face, and key strategies to successfully use diversity and inclusion as a tool for high performance.

Doing Right By Women In Legal Tech: Inside Scoop With Tammy Albarrán, Deputy General Counsel Of Uber

Presented by Tammy Albarrán & Samorn Selim

Video | Learn how to create a more diverse and inclusive environment for women and people of color in law and technology from someone who managed one of the highest profiled investigations on sexism and harassment in Silicon Valley.

Professional Development

Challenging the Power that Allows Sexual Harassment and Workplace Misconduct to Thrive

Presented by Lauren Stiller Rikleen & Betsy Munnell

Video | During this fireside chat, Lauren Stiller Rikleen explores how silence fuels workplace misconduct and shields those who perpetuate the bad behavior, as well as the link between the creation of a respectful, inclusive, and diverse workplace culture and the elimination of negative workplace behaviors.

Diversity & Inclusion

Why Women Leave: Culture of Abuse, Silence, and Retaliation

By Samorn Selim

Book Review | Two female attorneys face the brutal statistics of why women leave the practice of law and what we as a profession can do about it.

Professional Development

EQ: What It Is and Why It Matters

Presented by Ronda Muir, Rob Durr, and Kathy Morris

Video | Learn how high emotional intelligence (EQ) can transform a good lawyer into a great one and effectively distinguish one lawyer from another by enhancing one’s judgment, problem solving, and decision making skills as well as improve collaborative workplace dynamics, profitability, and client service.

Lawyer Wellness

Lawyer Resilience and Grit

Presented by Dr. Larry Richard

Video | Learn about the latest advances in the behavioral sciences that lawyers can use to build psychological resilience and “grit” to successfully navigate stressors in today’s legal market.

Lawyer Wellness

Mindfulness: Elevate Your Awareness, Enhance Your Practice

Presented by Susan Fine, Rhonda Magee, Martha Pacold, and Denise Robinson

Video | Learn how to excel in your career by first taking care of you. Explore how mindfulness is a useful tool that attorneys can use to deal with the demands of your practice, managing chronic stress, and promoting well-being.

Silencing the Voice of Self-Doubt: How to Build Evidence-Based Belief in Yourself

Presented by Neha Sampat

Video | If you're ever faced self-doubt, tune in to explore what Impostor Syndrome is and strategies you can take to overcome it and propel your career forward.

Professional Development

The Lawyer’s Guide to Finding a Mentor

By Jeremy Bloom and Carol Kanarek

Article | Mentoring as a means of enhancing lawyers job satisfaction and performance is an exceedingly important topic. The reality is that finding the right mentor(s) is easier said than done–and the wrong mentor can be worse than no mentor at all.

Professional Development

Mentoring: The secret to career advancement in any field

By Shauna C. Bryce and Jared Redick

Article | A good mentor gives you support and helps open doors. A great mentor helps you achieve heights you may never have imagined were possible.

More Lawyers Want Mentors; They Should Consider Being a Mentor First

By Cheryl Rich Heisler

Article | Most often the idea of mentoring brings about the vision of an established attorney imbibing their wisdom on young eager attorneys who enjoy watching their career unfold. But in reality, mentoring comes in many forms and can occur at any stage in your career.

Professional Development

Lessons Learned—and Shared—with Women in the Law

By Cheryl Rich Heisler

Article | Ten things women can do now to promote their own career growth.

Professional Development

Recovering from Mistakes with Credibility and Confidence

Presented by Avery Blank, Dan DeFoe, and Kathy Morris

Video | Mistakes happen all the time. It’s how you handle and learn from them that will set you apart.

Ethics

Tripwires for Lawyers and Law Students: Practice Traps for the Unwary

Presented by Jim Grogan, Debby Stone, and Kathy Morris

Video | Learn tips to enhance your professional presence and get your career off in the right direction such as situations to avoid which could have negative consequences and opportunities to look for.

New Attorneys

How to Avoid Common Mistakes When Starting a New Job

Presented by Carol Kanarek, Jasmine Ball, Jeremy Bloom

Video | Gain tips and insights from our expert panel on how to get off on the right foot–whether you’re new to the legal profession or moving to a new job.

Professional Development

How To Recover From Mistakes: The Career Opportunity Ryan Lochte Missed

By Avery Blank

Article | Four steps to mending a misstep.

Professional Development

Guide to Negotiation: Tips and Techniques

Presented by Liz Stone

Video | Strengthen your negotiation skills and improve your style of negotiating on your own behalf.

Professional Development

Men Negotiate More Aggressively With Women After Trump’s Election And What Women Can Do About It

By Avery Blank

Article | Six ways for women to help respond to hardball male negotiation tactics that can lessen his aggressiveness and maintain your power.

Professional Development

Networking for the Lazy

By Matt Handal

Article | Do you find networking at an event or conference terribly uncomfortable? If so, that’s because, let’s face it, networking is too much work.

Professional Development

5 Painless Ways to Grow Your Network—Without Being Pushy, Needy, or Fake

By Robert White

Article | Robert White, Executive Director of the California Minority Counsel Program, offers five easy tips to help you grow your network.

Professional Development

Networking Tips from Someone Who Dreads Networking

By Adam Friedl

Article | Three tips to get you started on making networking a breeze.

Professional Development

How to Work the Room Through Fearless Networking

By Avery Blank

Article | Being a fearless networker allows you to develop relationships with amazing people, show your value to decision-makers, and ultimately better position yourself for exciting opportunities. There are two main networking settings: in-person and online.

Professional Development

People Don’t Understand What You Do Because…

By Anusia Gillespie, JD, MBA

Article | Do you know how to explain what you do in language that is clear and altruistic?

Career

Should You Talk About What You Do, or What You Love?

By Anusia Gillespie, JD, MBA

Article | In business development situations, your goal is to tell someone about what you do in a way that makes it relatable to the person you're talking to. Here are some simple ways to do that.

Professional Development

Keeping Up with LinkedIn

Presented by Katie White

Video | What are the key components of a successful LinkedIn profile? How can attorneys utilize this dynamic social media tool to enhance their careers? What’s new and what’s changed about LinkedIn? Attorney Career Coach Katie White of KT White Law Careers, will address these topics and answer your questions.

Professional Development

Putting Social Media to Work for You

Presented by Nicole Black, Kevin O'Keefe, and Kathy Morris

Video | Learn how to use social media to enhance your professional presence, build your network, complement your work, and assist in your job hunt.

Professional Development

Enhancing Your Online Presence

Presented by Amanda Ellis, Marina Sarmiento, and Mark Weber

Video | Learn how to make the most of social media and blogs to enhance your personal brand and improve your career and client development.

Winning Social Media Networking Strategies to Land a Job or Gain New Clients

Presented by Betsy Munnell and Sofia S. Lingos

Video | Get tips on using Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to further your career with the right job connections and referral networks to gain clients.

Lawyer Wellness

Work/Life Balance: Survival or Career Suicide?

Presented by Deborah Epstein Henry, Dr. Larry Richard, and Kathy Morris

Video | Many lawyers work under constant pressure and feel the need for face time over flex time. Want a greater measure of balance but don’t know how to attain it?

Professional Development

How Successful People Unplug From Work And Take A Real Vacation

By Avery Blank

Article | Before you take your next vacation, read these 7 steps on how to unplug your devices and recharge yourself instead.

Professional Development

The Horrible Conflict Between Biology and Women Attorneys

By Anusia Gillespie

Article | Anusia Gillespie explores what she considers to be the two top reasons women attorneys leave the profession: (1) unsustainable billable hours and work/life considerations, and (2) a limiting culture.

Lawyer Wellness

The Stress-Performance Link: Strategies to Increase Resilience and Avoid Burnout

Presented by Paula Davis-Laack and David N. Shearon

Video | Feeling overwhelmed and stressed from workload, deadlines, and client expectations as well as from our personal lives is a common theme, but it doesn’t have to be. Tune in to learn how to interpret stress to make you perform better among other resilience skills to avoid burnout.