Parenting and Practicing Law in a Pandemic

22 December, 2020

When I started out in BigLaw, I was expected to bill 60 plus hours a week. Accomplishing that meant being at the office for 80 – 90 hours a week. It was no surprise that many young associates began looking for greener pastures after their first year. Long hours at the office also means sacrificing s...

Test Yourself: Are You Still Using These Unnecessary Legalese Terms?

11 December, 2020

This week, a big new action role-playing video game Cyberpunk 2077 was released. And it’s making a splash for . . . having a readable user agreement? “We put it together as simply as we can legally, with some informal short summaries to help you understand what it means,” says the summary at the ...

The Best Legal Minds at Filevine Reveal How They Decompress

4 December, 2020

I asked my heroes and mentors at Filevine how they’re fighting stress and building joy this holiday break. Their answers are a master-class in smart self-care during a particularly stressful year. Here are 6 ways the top lawyers and legal experts at Filevine decompress: 1. Release endorph...

How to Make Your Law Firm Website a Client Magnet

19 November, 2020

In the U.S., the average person consumes over 16 hours of digital media every day, according to a study described byThe Wall Street Journal. (For some context: that counts overlapping usage. If you listen to a podcast for an hour while you shop online, that qualifies as 2 hours as consumption.) For ...

7 Ways That Law Firms Can Work for Women

22 October, 2020

It’s 100 years since we got the right to vote. Law firms can celebrate by making their firms better places for women to work. Amid all the chaos of 2020, it’s been easy to overlook an important milestone: this year marks the 100th birthday of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the ri...

The One Client Demand Lawyers Can’t Afford to Ignore

16 October, 2020

I became a lawyer at the beginning of the ‘Go-Go-90s’, when changes to corporate laws brought a wave of mergers and acquisitions. The companies who profited from this were typically willing to pay sky-high fees for competent lawyers who could help make the deals happen. In the thick of ‘merger-mania...