Blog Posts: Law Blog

Never assume the person you’re speaking with already understands what you want from the conversation or relationship. Dropping a hint or sending a vague email is indirect and unlikely to help you get what you’re looking for. You need to understand that nobody is inside your head. The colleague you casually mentioned a referral opportunity to is not sitting at h...

Many professionals wear exhaustion like a badge of honor. They are always available, always grinding, always the last one to leave albeit figuratively.  In an era when the office follows you everywhere on your phone and laptop, you can grind. Anyone who has been that person can tell you that it is not something to be proud of. It is something to fix. To sustain a ...

There is a moment all professionals know, even though we never talk about it. You are working. You could cut the corner on the project in front of you. You could let the small thing slide. You could tell yourself it doesn’t really matter, because who would ever know? That moment is, in many ways, the most important moment of your professional life because your ch...

The energy of a workplace is not an accident. It is a direct reflection of the people in it, and more specifically, the attitudes those people choose to bring through the door every single morning. Science has long confirmed what most of us already know, intuitively, emotions spread. When one person on a team leads with enthusiasm, optimism, and genuine warmth, tho...

Arthur Brooks draws a distinction that should make every professional stop and think. There are two fundamentally different categories of problems in the world, and confusing one for the other is one of the most common mistakes professionals make. A complicated problem is hard, but it is ultimately knowable. It can be mapped, modeled, and solved with enough technic...

It is March, which means both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments are in full swing. What makes March Madness so compelling, beyond the upsets and buzzer-beaters, is that it is a masterclass in team dynamics played out on a national stage. Every year, highly recruited rosters full of individual talent get sent home early by teams that simply play ...

Mentoring is one of the most powerful things you can do in your career, and most people aren’t doing it. Not really. They’ll grab coffee with a younger colleague once a quarter, offer a vague word of encouragement, and call it mentoring. That’s not mentoring; that’s being polite. Real mentoring is intentional, consistent, and honest. It requires you to inve...

Let’s get something straight: the people who refuse to adopt new technologies damage their businesses and fall behind. In this moment that technology is artificial intelligence and those not integrating it are already losing. AI may or may not be coming for your job but someone who knows how to use it just might be. Whether you’re a law firm, running a small bu...

Understand that the idea beats the execution. Every time. We live in a culture obsessed with hustle, with grind, with the relentless optimization of how you do things. But none of that matters if what you’re doing isn’t worth doing in the first place. The spark, that original, electric moment of genuine inspiration, is the most valuable asset anyone can posses...

Something that separates successful professionals from those who plateau is that the most effective people aren’t always the ones who are technically right. But many times, the people who are right walk away empty-handed because they confused being correct with being persuasive, being accurate with being influential, and being smart with being strategic. Every w...