5 Skills to Learn in Law School That Will Help You Succeed in Your Career
Law school can and will prepare you for the “real world” – if you focus on developing these skills If you are a law student, you probably have heard, either before you started school or during school itself, that law school doesn’t actually prepare you for the...
What I Learned From My Childhood Cookie Business and How You Can Apply Those Skills to Advance In Your Career
My First Career Before I was a Biglaw associate, my first career was actually that of entrepreneur. Well, let me take a few steps back. A few giant steps back. As a little kid, I loved baking cookies with my mom so much that when I was about seven years old,...
Top 9 Tips to Survive Your First Few Years in Biglaw
Expect a Tough Few Years The first few years of your corporate career can be tough and Biglaw is no exception. In fact, I’d argue that working at a law firm is one of the most demanding corporate jobs you can have (so demanding that it totally burned me out by...
The Worst Piece of Career Advice I Ever Received
Whatever You Do, Don’t Bring In Cupcakes! I have been fortunate enough never to have received any objectively terrible career advice. Looking back, however, there is one piece of advice I received in law school that influenced a lot of my years in Biglaw that I wish I...
