In Part One of this series, I said that becoming a partner in a law firm is no longer the goal of every young lawyer.… Read More »Partnership – Not The Holy Grail, Part Three: The Disadvantages
When I was younger, and did not have a house or a family or need to fund my children’s education, or want to travel the… Read More »You Can Measure My Career in Games
One of my former partners checked out my profile on LinkedIn the other day. Since he is a litigator, my paranoid streak honed to perfection… Read More »Moving on Up
The people who make the most money in law firms are not necessarily the smartest lawyers, or the most strategic lawyers, or even the highest… Read More »Whose Client is it Anyway?
I understand that newbies to the legal profession who have student debt and no client base often feel locked into jobs that they hate. I… Read More »An Action Plan for Becoming Less Miserable
[Note from Murray: Many of my readers are younger professionals. They may not be crazy about the content of this article. In my defense, I… Read More »It is Okay to Put Up With Some Injustice
I think that lawyers should know who they are and what type of clients they want (and the answer is not “any client with a… Read More »Knowing What Type of Clients You Want
Back in the old days when law school cost very little and you could rent an apartment in Toronto for a reasonable amount, law firms… Read More »Law Firms Marching Obliviously into Oblivion
One day, quite a few years ago, I was out for lunch with a banker who I will call Neal. Neal was a commercial account… Read More »How Can I Help You?
In my heyday of clients and billings, my largest client asked me to handle an outsourcing transaction. I would hazard a guess that had it… Read More »Yes, You Can! (Maybe)