“How to Build a Board of Directors — For Your Own Career” Appears in Forbes

Deb Pickett's latest article for Forbes Business Council, "How to Build a Board of Directors — For Your Own Career," counsels leaders to seek guidance from a broad array of guides to help them make key decisions, especially people whose backgrounds and experiences might give them different perspectives. 

Last week, the legal media focused its attention on Well-Being Week in Law, an initiative organized by the Institute for Well-Being in Law to raise awareness of mental health challenges in the legal profession and diminish the reluctance to seek help....

Fourteen months into the pandemic, email overwhelm is a major sources of stress and fatigue for remote workers. It was never easy...

In a cultural moment that shows little tolerance for neutral players beholden only to the interests of their clients, law leaders face uncomfortable conflicts and big decisions about what it means to be a moral actor in 2021. In the past year, and especially in the past few weeks, we've seen law firms lining up to 

For more than a year, law firm leaders have been working under short-term, emergent conditions: providing all-hands-on-deck client service and forecasting how the industries they serve will be impacted by current economic conditions and constraints. In other words, they have been focused on survival, with no bandwidth left to think about the longer term.

In some ways, this intensive focus on shoring up client relationships has paid...