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How much Initiative is Too Much?

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How can Young Lawyers Work more Efficiently?

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Should Lawyers Write with Contractions?

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How to Write a better Advice

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You Need to Ditch these Law School Habits

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Careful Who you Take Wellness Advice From

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Law is Hard – Deal with It

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How to Write Shorter Letters

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Are Young Lawyers Incompetent at Business?

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Does your Drafting Achieve its Purpose?

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Getting your Tone Right

12

What to Do When You’re Not Busy

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Are you Dissatisfied with your Legal Career?

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Are you Ready to Start your Own Firm?

15

Careful Who you Copy

16

Delusions of Justice

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What’s the Rut and How can You Avoid It?

18

Don’t Get Overwhelmed By Learning Skills… Do This Instead

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Can you Really Design a Legal Career That You’ll Love

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Do you Know What Clients Hate?

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Clients Have Great Expectations… But What Are They?

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Clients Don’t Always Come First

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Your Clients – The Legal Skill that Isn’t a Legal Skill

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Track Your Efforts as a Young Lawyer

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Strategies for Young Lawyers to Add to Business Success

26

Pulling the Levers of Law Firm Profit

27

The Three Critical Elements of Law Firm Profit

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The Business of Law – Why It Matters

29

How Can You Add Value To Your Prospective Clients?

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Where Do Your Clients Hang Out? (and are you there?)

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Who Do you Want as a Client?

32

Principles, Strategies and Tools of Marketing

33

Marketing is Relationship

34

Pick Up the Phone

35

The Critical Parts of Effective Legal Writing

36

Learning to Listen

37

Undoing the Damage of Law School Writing Styles

38

The Elements of Effective Communication for Lawyers

39

Mastering the Performance Review (or at least, not wasting it)

40

Productivity and Focus

41

If You’re Going to be Awesome…

42

Losers, Cruisers and Dynamos

43

We Can’t Ignore Wellness

44

The Basics of Personal Professional Growth

45

The 4 Legal Skillsets to Focus On in Your Career

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Constant Improvement

47

Why Focus on Legal Skills Rather than Learning Law?

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Introducing 30 Legal Skills in 30 Days

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A Culture of Learning

50

What Order to Do Your Work In?

51

A Simple Strategy for Complex Legal Problems

52

Don’t Do Law Unless you Want to Be a Lawyer

53

Bad Bosses in Law and How to Respond to Them

54

Honing your Craft as a Lawyer

55

Two Massive Holes in Law School Education… That you can Fix

56

What the Heck IS Work/Life Balance

57

How do you Advise on Risk – and Why?

58

How to Get Stuff Done

59

The Value of Human Connection

60

Are you Trying to Sound Too Professional All the Time?

61

Focus versus Flexibility – Which is More Important?

62

Are Robots Going to Replace the Legal Profession?

63

Are you Making the Most of your Mentor?

64

Is the Law for Everyone?

65

The 5 Stages of your Legal Career

66

Become a Fully Integrated Human Being

67

Social Media Mastery with Mitch Jackson

68

How to Deal with Distractions

69

Generous Productivity for Lawyers – It’s Not About YOU

70

Stop Looking for a Job as a Lawyer

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It’s About Permission to Provide Value

72

100 Percent Guaranteed Failure

73

Which of these 5 Letter Writing Techniques are you Failing At?

74

Are you Spending Time, or Investing Time?

75

Are you going All In on your Legal Career?

76

Why Don’t Law Firms see Returns from Social Media?

77

Changes are Afoot!

78

The Polite Fiction of Work/Life Balance

79

Practical Legal Training – Tedious and Cumbersome?

80

How to Settle in to a New Law Firm

81

Too Many Law Students, and Not Enough Jobs?

82

Real Lawyers Are Expert Communicators

83

Real Lawyers Are Self Aware

84

Real Lawyers Aren’t Perfectionists

85

Real Lawyers Have… Integrity

86

Should Lawyers Do Masters Degrees?

87

Are you using the “hope” learning method?

88

You Have More Time than you Think

89

High Stakes, High Pressure – That’s the Game

90

Time Management Skills for Lawyers

91

5 Marketing Essentials for Young Lawyers

92

Effective Client Communication Techniques

93

Are you Committed to Constant Professional Growth?

94

Is a 20 Hour Work Day either Normal or Necessary?

95

Patience is Not Always a Virtue

96

How to Craft a Persuasive Message

97

More Persuasion for Lawyers – The Connection Element

98

How to be Persuasive – Part 1

99

Some Thoughts On Integrity

100

Why do you Do what you Do?