Understatement: involuntary unemployment can cast a pall over things. Even if a sense of relief accompanied the loss of a job that had felt like a daily root canal, confronting a dried up revenue stream and a wilted economy is…
The third speaker, Phil Segaloff, Esq. at the 2012 LCL/MBA “Managing Your Work Search” held the group in rapt attention as he spoke about how to successfully network during your job search to not only find job opportunities, but…
How do you increase the chances that the resume you submit will end up in the “interview” pile? That was the topic of session 2 of the 2012 LCL/MBA-sponsored seminar series, Managing Your Work Search. Mandie LeBeau, Esq., Director of…
Is there anyone out there who enjoys looking for a job? Anyone who doesn’t feel a bit alone, or overwhelmed by it? If you answered yes, we know you’re trying to put a brave face on it. But if you’re…
A news article in a local Massachusetts newspaper reported the recent arrest of a lawyer late one night for drunk driving, endangerment of two young children in the back seat, and other charges. I glanced at the comments posted by…
LCL Board VP Christine Marx, in her capacity as Associate Dean for Student Affairs at BU Law, is calling attention to the fact that law students, like practicing lawyers, can be vulnerable to career-disrupting alcohol and drug problems. To read…
So many lawyers are depressed and/or addicted -- this article from the September/October issue of The Bencher, reviews the extent of the problem and responsibility and potential impact of colleagues and firms to help.
Most lawyers are acculturated to present an image of themselves as knowing, capable, even invulnerable or self-sufficient. Yet lawyers are human beings, and thus subject to vulnerabilities and setbacks. It is on that basis that, when speaking to groups of…
Even at a time like this, when most employed people (lawyers and others) are happy to have a job, we recurrently meet lawyers who feel suffocated and stuck in work settings that we have come to refer to as “toxic.”…
Physicians follow their academic training with years in hospitals, through internship and residency, partly as cheap labor, but under the watchful/critical eye of more experienced physicians. Psychologists follow their years of classes with a year’s internship and two years’ supervised…