How Market Intelligence Changes the Job-Search Game
When it comes to career transitions, one of the tools we find most valuable is a proprietary market intelligence and job opportunity platform.
4 Ways to Maximize Your Upward Review Investment
When it comes to creating exceptional global law firms, the value of regular, periodic upward reviews can hardly be overstated. Bringing together frank feedback and supportive, developmental reports, they fuel superlative leadership and a culture of openness.
3 Leadership Skills for Starting Strong as a New Partner
In a law firm, shifting from associate or counsel to partner is a seminal shift in an attorney’s career. It requires more than a mindset shift — new partners must quickly build new management, client and business development and communication skills.
How to Encourage and Optimize In-Office Time in Hybrid Environments
Even as return-to-office plans proliferate, it appears that hybrid environments with greater remote work flexibility are here to stay. Both firms and their people have learned that, in many cases, remote work is not incompatible with high performance and improved work-life balance.
Navigating Hybrid Environments: Lessons Learned and New Best Practices
While many firms have been eager to return to pre-pandemic norms, hybrid environments are likely here to stay. Trends point to a return to in-person work, with greater flexibility for partial remote work.
How to Open and Close Networking Conversations
Networking is the most important thing you can do during a job transition—and from first impressions to final words, the way you go about it matters.
3 Tips to Overcome Job Search Burnout
If you’re feeling frustrated or stressed by your job search, you’re not alone. Navigating professional transitions requires a great deal of courage and resilience—and almost everyone experiences difficult emotions during the process.
What Do You Want to Be Known For?
Networking events, job interviews and your day-to-day work have one thing in common: your success is driven by the value you offer.
Want to Succeed at Networking? Focus on Mutuality
If there’s one thing I tell every coaching client, it’s this: “Network, network, network.” Your contacts can help you learn about opportunities, decide how best to position yourself for a particular job, give you the “inside scoop” on a firm and share intel like salary information.
RTO Success Strategies: Articulating Vision
When the pandemic forced an immediate shift to remote work, firms quickly adapted to a new paradigm. Preliminary forays back into the office represent another major shift. The pandemic and our responses to it are evolving, and new understandings of the factors that define a productive work environment are emerging. There is no one-size-fits-all playbook for this phase; firms must continually pivot given fluid circumstances.
Effective RTO Strategies: Prioritize Flexibility to Strengthen Culture
As legal employers consider return-to-office (RTO) policies, we must recognize that we are not going back to the world as it was before March 2020.