So, you are unhappy with your job.  Stressed, anxious and feeling unappreciated. You tell yourself it’s the job,  it’s the work environment, or you just need something new. So you start your job search. You start daydreaming about other roles, other  firms and other cities.  You go on interviews, you finally take a new position and then you  quit.  Often to find that the same cycle continues the new place.  But, what if instead of

This is an uneasy time for everyone.  Our lives turned upside down so quickly.  I cant help but be thankful for being a lawyer during this craziness.  Fortunately, not much has changed for my practice.  Sure there are new technologies that we are learning to use, there may be delays in moving things forward, the courts are slow to adapt but at the end of the day, it is business as usual to a large

Could this be the single most important change to the legal profession?  Since most law firms are currently profitable and its arguable that many of the lawyers and staff are miserable, what would happen if law firms took steps to cash in on the profitability of happy. What is the Profitability of Happiness? It has been found after a decade of research that happy employees produce better results.  Harvard’s own Shawn Achor has studied happiness

Being a lawyer is tough.  Being a new mom is tough.  Being both,  unimaginatively difficult. For myself the thought of  trying to balance motherhood and lawyering is something that has been on my mind for years. I imagine this is normal for female lawyers and especially true for those of us managing our own caseload and building a growing practice. Other than the basics, I did not know what to expect.   I knew that no