Category Archives: Soft Skills

Delegating – It doesn’t need to be a nightmare!

For many of us, delegating is a skillful art that we think only a handful of people will ever master. One of the biggest challenges for many young lawyers is learning how to best make use of time and resources by delegating tasks or projects. Though the “I’ll do it myself” mentality is “the norm” [...]

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Making Time to Think

Time, it is more often our enemy than it is our friend. We fight to have more of it in order to meet deadlines, network, spend time with loved ones, enjoy our successes or just think! Peter Bregman’s article, What to do when you have no time to think reminds us that making time to [...]

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Small Things Matter : Work/life balance

TedX Video very relevant to lawyers and legal professionals wrestling with the issue of work/life balance.

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Your legal career…one (marketing) step at a time

It’s never too early to start working on your legal marketing skills. No longer is it just something the ‘partners’ do. Marketing and business developing skills are just as important as developing your legal skills.

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Books Every Lawyer Should Read!

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For many of us, the thought of reading when we already do so much of it at work is either an absolute turnoff or a guilty pleasure!! Yet it is probably one of the best things we could possibly do, not only for our professional development but also for the thinking it provokes and for [...]

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Public Speaking – Feared Just As Much As Death!

Whether you love it or you hate it, public speaking is by far one of the most feared ‘marketing’ activities that lawyers can ever be asked to do. Yet it is also one of the most important and most powerful skills you can master in your legal career.

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