If you're still on the fence about registering for this year's Super Marketing Conference, find out why you should. Watch some of our speakers previewing their topics and inviting you to join us for #SuperMarket6! Select the 'conference sponsor' rate to…
Most everyone has heard about the importance of a work-life balance. We have all heard that it is important to get good sleep, eat well, exercise, have good relationships, and have other interests outside of work. “If you have a well-balanced life, your life will be better.” We’ve heard the sentiment, yet many have not adopted a healthy balance. Why is this? At the heart of this resistance is fear. Fear of not producing, not working hard enough, not excelling in a profession that you worked so hard to be involved in.
Back in the day, you could hide from the internet. There was a time (like when horseless carriages were in general use) when potential clients would not look for or vet lawyers online -- at least not aggressively. This was…
In a previous blog post I talked about how fostering a sense of contentment is a good foundation for developing and maintaining happiness. Another key component in happiness, especially long-term happiness, is gratitude. Thinking of reasons to be grateful and fostering the feeling of gratitude can shift your outlook on your day/life/situation. Purposely focusing on things that you appreciate makes it much more difficult to feel bitter or negative about your life in general.
You may have noticed that we write a lot about data security at this blog. That’s not by accident: lawyers have a seemingly ever-increasing number of professional responsibilities respecting the confidentiality of the client information they maintain; simultaneously, they’re opposed…
It can be quite difficult to see another person’s perspective on an issue when you feel they are attacking you personally. Conflicts encourage us to feel defensive and defensiveness makes it very difficult to understand another person’s perspective. So how can you fight against defensiveness when it feels like you need to defend yourself?
Charity Anastasio, our counterpart at the Washington State Bar's LOMAP, found inMailX in the exhibit halls of ABA TECHSHOW 2016. We haven't tried it yet, but if you deal in high volumes of email attachments, it definitely sounds like a…
Many of us have endured the excruciating situation in which a loved one is caught up in an addiction and we have very limited ability to protect them from themselves. In most cases, this is where options like Intervention or resources like Al-Anon can be helpful tools. When addictive behavior remains active and imminently life-threatening (a possibility of which we are all more aware lately in light of the surging rates of opioid overdose), a possible stopgap action is to seek to compel a period of involuntary alcohol/drug oriented hospitalization in a locked setting.
In just 2 minutes, get the top 5 tips lawyers need to leverage LinkedIn's power for a healthier network, from the official experts on LinkedIn for Lawyers! Our gratitude to Co-Authors Allison C. Shields and Dennis Kennedy of LinkedIn in One Hour…
There are countless suggestions for how to achieve happiness in this life. Some are great advice, while others not so much. The best advice for how to achieve and maintain happiness is often times the simplest. Contentment is a secret ingredient of happiness. The ability to feel content with what you have, the way things are in your life, and who you are as a person can lay the foundation for happiness.