Category: Leadership

Can Playing Poker Advance Your Career?

March 18, 2024
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We’ve written about how learning to play golf and joining male peers on the course may help women advance their careers. If golf doesn’t feel like a fit, would you consider playing poker? Casino nights are popular at social and charity events, making poker games potential opportunities to interact with clients and prospects. And the...

What 2022 Challenges Tell Us About the Rest of 2023

March 13, 2023
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We are more than halfway through the first quarter of 2023, but the outlook — in the legal industry and across the broader economy — is still a bit hard to pin down. One way to try to understand what law firms may face in the remainder of the year is to glance back at 2022. Legal industry reports analyzing law firm performance last year can shed light on trends, but firm leaders should bear in mind that the past several years have been highly unusual, and a...

“I require all my outside counsel to have a diverse team.”

September 19, 2022
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National Hispanic Heritage Month — celebrated each year from September 15 to October 15 — honors the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. As law firms post messages of support for Hispanic and Latinx communities this month, it’s important for them to reflect on whether their own internal structures are aligned with their external message of...