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Tips for Lawyers Podcast — 136 episodes
How much Initiative is Too Much?
How can Young Lawyers Work more Efficiently?
Should Lawyers Write with Contractions?
How to Write a better Advice
You Need to Ditch these Law School Habits
Careful Who you Take Wellness Advice From
Law is Hard – Deal with It
How to Write Shorter Letters
Are Young Lawyers Incompetent at Business?
Does your Drafting Achieve its Purpose?
Getting your Tone Right
What to Do When You’re Not Busy
Are you Dissatisfied with your Legal Career?
Are you Ready to Start your Own Firm?
Careful Who you Copy
Delusions of Justice
What’s the Rut and How can You Avoid It?
Don’t Get Overwhelmed By Learning Skills… Do This Instead
Can you Really Design a Legal Career That You’ll Love
Do you Know What Clients Hate?
Clients Have Great Expectations… But What Are They?
Clients Don’t Always Come First
Your Clients – The Legal Skill that Isn’t a Legal Skill
Track Your Efforts as a Young Lawyer
Strategies for Young Lawyers to Add to Business Success
Pulling the Levers of Law Firm Profit
The Three Critical Elements of Law Firm Profit
The Business of Law – Why It Matters
How Can You Add Value To Your Prospective Clients?
Where Do Your Clients Hang Out? (and are you there?)
Who Do you Want as a Client?
Principles, Strategies and Tools of Marketing
Marketing is Relationship
Pick Up the Phone
The Critical Parts of Effective Legal Writing
Learning to Listen
Undoing the Damage of Law School Writing Styles
The Elements of Effective Communication for Lawyers
Mastering the Performance Review (or at least, not wasting it)
Productivity and Focus
If You’re Going to be Awesome…
Losers, Cruisers and Dynamos
We Can’t Ignore Wellness
The Basics of Personal Professional Growth
The 4 Legal Skillsets to Focus On in Your Career
Constant Improvement
Why Focus on Legal Skills Rather than Learning Law?
Introducing 30 Legal Skills in 30 Days
A Culture of Learning
What Order to Do Your Work In?
A Simple Strategy for Complex Legal Problems
Don’t Do Law Unless you Want to Be a Lawyer
Bad Bosses in Law and How to Respond to Them
Honing your Craft as a Lawyer
Two Massive Holes in Law School Education… That you can Fix
What the Heck IS Work/Life Balance
How do you Advise on Risk – and Why?
How to Get Stuff Done
The Value of Human Connection
Are you Trying to Sound Too Professional All the Time?
Focus versus Flexibility – Which is More Important?
Are Robots Going to Replace the Legal Profession?
Are you Making the Most of your Mentor?
Is the Law for Everyone?
The 5 Stages of your Legal Career
Become a Fully Integrated Human Being
Social Media Mastery with Mitch Jackson
How to Deal with Distractions
Generous Productivity for Lawyers – It’s Not About YOU
Stop Looking for a Job as a Lawyer
It’s About Permission to Provide Value
100 Percent Guaranteed Failure
Which of these 5 Letter Writing Techniques are you Failing At?
Are you Spending Time, or Investing Time?
Are you going All In on your Legal Career?
Why Don’t Law Firms see Returns from Social Media?
Changes are Afoot!
The Polite Fiction of Work/Life Balance
Practical Legal Training – Tedious and Cumbersome?
How to Settle in to a New Law Firm
Too Many Law Students, and Not Enough Jobs?
Real Lawyers Are Expert Communicators
Real Lawyers Are Self Aware
Real Lawyers Aren’t Perfectionists
Real Lawyers Have… Integrity
Should Lawyers Do Masters Degrees?
Are you using the “hope” learning method?
You Have More Time than you Think
High Stakes, High Pressure – That’s the Game
Time Management Skills for Lawyers
5 Marketing Essentials for Young Lawyers
Effective Client Communication Techniques
Are you Committed to Constant Professional Growth?
Is a 20 Hour Work Day either Normal or Necessary?
Patience is Not Always a Virtue
How to Craft a Persuasive Message
More Persuasion for Lawyers – The Connection Element
How to be Persuasive – Part 1
Some Thoughts On Integrity
Why do you Do what you Do?
5 Requirements for Working Effectively with your Secretary
Why Your Legal Bills Don’t Get Paid
How to Be a Happy Lawyer
7 Essential Habits that you Need to Start Right Now
5 Ways that Lawyers should Act like Entrepreneurs
Is your Personal Brand More important than your Firm’s Brand?
Playing to your Strengths as a Lawyer
3 Ways Young Lawyers can Disrupt the System for the Better
Who Bears the Onus to Train Law Students and New Lawyers?
Get your Audience Raving about your Next Presentation (AKA – How to Give a Good Presentation)
Writing Articles? The Wrapping Matters!
Either Take Some Risks or Stay in the Cage – it’s Up to You
6 Tricks for a more Productive Morning
“I hate Being a Lawyer” and other lies we tell ourselves
How to Build your Network From Day 1
How to Start Working on your Personal Brand NOW
Goal Setting and Promotion Strategy
Is Social Media a Complete Waste of Time for Lawyers?
What are the Essentials of Legal Practice (and what are you doing about them)?
Is Going Overseas Good for your Legal Career?
Are you Worthless In your Own Mind?
Perfectionism is Killing your Career
Ways to Do Well in a Job Interview
How to React to People Who Hate Lawyers
Why Does Everyone Hate Lawyers?
Better Business Skills for Lawyers
Are you an Imposter?
How to Write an Advice
Legal Careers should Add Value
Performance Reviews – why we hate them, and how to fix it
8 Reasons to Improve your Legalese
How to Work a Room (networking for new lawyers)
What is Firm Culture, and What do you Do About it?
A little procrastination goes a long way
Forming New Habits
The Podcast Begins!!!