A Secret to Building Future Firm Leaders: Peer Learning
Every law firm aims for associates to become successful partners. Nurturing and retaining talented associates is vital for long-term success. However, skills used daily differ from those needed to become partners.
Developing Your Future Leaders: Draw from Your Own Talent
Associates primarily focus on developing core legal skills like research, writing, and analysis. While these skills are crucial for building legal expertise, they alone do not fully prepare an associate for partnership.
How Greater Self-Awareness Drives Career Success
When considering qualities for a successful attorney career, think of intelligence, knowledge, competency, ambition — which are essential. However, a crucial skill often overlooked might hinder your professional relationships or promotion.
6 Ways to Treat Your Colleagues Like Your Best Clients — and 6 Reasons to Do It
If you practice law in a firm, you’ve likely developed the skill of treating clients well, essential for good business. To truly succeed and build loyal teams, treat colleagues as you do your clients.
Why Your Personal Branding Matters
The idea of branding is much broader and includes how each person presents their professional identity. In fact, factors such as what you wear, how you interact with others, and most importantly, the kind of work you produce, all make up your personal brand.
8 Tips for Giving Feedback — and Getting Attorneys to Listen
Senior attorneys and firm leaders increasingly find that giving feedback to junior attorneys is a core part of the job. Norms have changed over the decades, and more junior attorneys have come to expect candid, useful feedback — delivered in a respectful tone — to be part of firm culture.
How to Write Better Networking Messages
The secret to effective networking messages is changing your mindset. View interactions as opportunities to build mutually beneficial relationships, not just asking for favors.
7 Keys to Effective Delegation
Being a great leader requires the development and nurturing of many key character traits: self-awareness, open-mindedness and genuine connection, to name a few.
Leadership Tips From 2500+ Attorneys
Over the past several years, we at Beard Strategies have been working on upward reviews for some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms
4 Obstacles to Wellness and What to Do About Them
Attorney wellness and work-life balance are on everyone’s mind in BigLaw these days. And for good reason — the grueling pace and the intense pressure take a toll.
6 Benefits of Outplacement: When Doing Good Is Also Good for Business
Despite all your efforts to hire attorneys who are the right fit, nurture their development, provide mentoring and growth opportunities and help them lay tracks for a long and successful career with your organization — sometimes things just don’t work out, and the time comes for an attorney to depart.
3 Tips for Effective Internal Communications
High-performing firm cultures are driven by trust and a sense of shared purpose, and skillful communication is key to creating such environments.