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#124: Almost a BigLaw Partner: Making Intentional Choices to Build Your Case for Partnership
Episode 124
As a senior associate, it is easy to believe that if you continue doing excellent work, stay responsive, and keep busy, the next step will naturally …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
#123: Almost a BigLaw Partner: Do You Have the Right Mentor?
Episode 123
There is a point in BigLaw where the partners who have helped mentor you may no longer be best positioned to be the ones you look to the most to guid…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
#122: Almost a BigLaw Partner: The Senior Associate Identity Crisis
Episode 122
There is a stage in BigLaw where you are doing almost everything a partner does, running matters, managing clients, and making judgment calls, but yo…
5 months ago
#121: How BigLaw Office Design Impacts Culture, with Gensler's Christian Amolsch and Jordan Novak
Episode 121
When you walk into a BigLaw office, how does it feel to you in that space? Corporate? Welcoming? Open? Private? Dated? New? Empty? Busy? In this epis…
5 months, 1 week ago
#120: Why Your Performance Review Doesn't Match the Work You're Doing in BigLaw
There is a specific moment many associates experience in BigLaw that feels both confusing and frustrating, which is when your performance review come…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
#119: Why "One Firm" in BigLaw Rarely Works the Way It Sounds
When a law firm describes itself as "one firm," it can suggest integration, shared economics, and aligned incentives across offices and practice grou…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
#118: Before Saying Yes: Know What Partnership At Your BigLaw Firm Really Means
Episode 118
In this episode of Big Law Life, I walk through what partnership actually looks like inside large law firms and why many lawyers only discover the re…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
#117: Building a Book of Business in BigLaw Without Taking Clients from Other Partners
Episode 117
One of the most challenging transitions in BigLaw is moving from being a strong contributor to becoming a lawyer who can generate business. As a juni…
6 months ago
#116: How to Plan to Exit BigLaw and Why Most Associates Wait Too Long
Episode 116
The reality inside BigLaw is that the majority of associates stay for some time but eventually leave, and the lawyers who navigate that transition we…
6 months, 1 week ago
#115: Social Media in BigLaw: What to Post, What to Avoid, and Staying Out of Trouble with Your Firm and Clients
Social media can be one of the best platforms BigLaw legal and business professionals have to build reputation, visibility, and network strength, but…
6 months, 2 weeks ago