Some lawyers feel they’re “too new,” some don’t plan to make partner and think business development is therefore irrelevant for them, and some say they’re just not good at business development — so why bother?

When I try to envision that world, I get deeply distressed. If work and life are separate, and if life has no part in work, what does that imply? Work = no life, and the absence of life = death. So, work = death.

Generally speaking, law firms use the phrase “client development” to refer to the process of signing clients that the firm will represent in litigation, transactions, etc. I’d like to consider another type of client development associates must consider: internal client development.

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Crafting effective agreements is an elegant way of arriving at a shared vision, either as the final step of resolving conflict, or at the beginning of a new project, transaction or relationship.
When you think about "agreements," you probably think of difficult negotiations, and long legal documents.

During my second year of law school I had my first "real" lawyer's job. I was an intern at a local legal services clinic. On my first day I was handed 25 cases "to work on." This would be my "job" for the semester. Three weeks later I asked the managing attorney for more cases. When he asked about the 25 that he gave me, I told him that I resolved them.

The capacity of technology is far greater than what most of us need. Regulation is way behind trying to catch up to the reality of actual practice. This is true with technology, the internet, patents, biotechnology, finance, utilities, mergers etc., etc., etc....! Many people are feeling disoriented because our foundation of standards and accepted ways of doing things has crumbled. We have no solid ground to stand on, and it's not going back to the way it was!

Is there a simple and elegant way of building and transforming an organizations' culture? I wonder about this question when I repeatedly hear the phrase 'cultural change' as the goal for an organizational strategic initiative.

From the Intermediate Essays on Mediation by Stephen R. Marsh at ADRR.Com

From Stephen R. Marsh's ADR Resource on beginning mediation at ADRR.com.

The past thirty-five years have witnessed a revolution in U.S. mental disability law. This revolution is one that largely constitutionalized virtually every aspect of the involuntary civil commitment and release process, as well as most pressure points in the course of institutionalization (the right to treatment, the right to refuse treatment, the right to the least restrictive alternative course of treatment). It saw the first broad-based federal civil rights statutes enacted on behalf of persons with mental disabilities,¹ and the creation of a patients' bar to provide legal representation to such persons. ²

I have taught and/or supervised well over twenty-five sections of online mental disability law courses. I have found that students are consistently better prepared, more intellectually engaged, employ more critical thinking, and participate at a greater rate in online courses than in traditional classes. Students contact me far more often seeking suggestions for additional or supplemental readings, and in the two terms that I have taught the same material in an online course and in a traditional class, online students performed strikingly better on exams.

There’s a difference between a team leader who counts on the skill and expertise of team members and a legal hotshot who regards the team as merely a supporting cast. Clients and potential clients (not to mention the team) will sense that difference.

Sometimes, the relationship between the professional and personal sides of life becomes blurred. That may be a work/life balance issue that calls for reflection on the degree, if any, to which the lawyer wants to separate the two.

I’ve been doing a lot of speaking and coaching lately on business development, and someone asked a great question: what are the top obstacles to rainmaking success? I’ve identified three universal challenges. Do any of these sound uncomfortably familiar to you?

When there’s too much of a gap between one’s “real” self and one’s “work” self, going to work may become unbearably stressful. A great deal of energy can be consumed by molding oneself to expectations, and everyone I’ve known to be in such a situation gets worn down by maintaining a false persona.