INSIGHTS + GUIDANCE ON
THOUGHT-LEADERSHIP PR FOR LAW FIRMS
Many attorneys struggle to get ahead, and with the new year quickly approaching, it’s vital to get started on planning now so you don’t lose valuable time in the first quarter of the new year. In the following article, Tom Nixon discusses the importance of taking the first step in carving out your own plan for success now instead of waiting until January.
Recently, I posted on LinkedIn about the travails of being a first-year lawyer during these trying times. The post generated several comments from lawyers who shared their own advice for coping. Here are 10 tips, based on my own experiences and those of other lawyers who shared their perspectives on LinkedIn, to help first-year lawyers stay strong and resilient.
Many lawyers fear that a narrow focus will limit opportunities. However, focusing on a narrow niche is the foothold that many lawyers use to gain traction. From being recognized as a thought leader to making marketing easier, Jay Harrington presents key advantages of serving a niche audience and how it allows lawyers to scale their practice to new heights.
If an attorney wishes to attain thought-leader status, the belief is that he or she needs to emulate and achieve the thought leader’s mind, body and spirit. In the following article. Tom Nixon provides his suggestions, as well as suggestions and tips from his network on LinkedIn,, on tools, resources and more that help enable a busy professional to achieve the calm, steadiness and measured composure that thought leaders exhibit.
Learning is a skill like any other. The more effective you are at identifying gaps in your knowledge and bridging those gaps by consuming and making sense of useful information, the more effective you will be as a lawyer. In the following article, I discuss some of the best ways to get smarter in order to push yourself to higher levels of performance.
Learning is a skill like any other. The more effective you are at identifying gaps in your knowledge and bridging those gaps by consuming and making sense of useful information, the more effective you will be as a lawyer. In the following article, I discuss some of the best ways to get smarter in order to push yourself to higher levels of performance.
Are you willing to settle for the same results year after year because you never built something that could operate independent of your time and effort? If you want to grow a significant legal practice, you must start thinking of yourself as a CEO who can scale. Growing your practice beyond yourself is not easy. But there is a way to push past your own limitations to far greater levels of success. Here are three fundamental steps to achieving scale.
As we enter fourth quarter, it is more critical than ever to understand and to be able to articulate to firm leadership what the return on any proposed investment might be, and what the time horizon is for the realization of that return. In the following article, Tom Nixon discusses two important curves that are vital to not only predicting future forecasts, but also to illustrate and validate the worthiness of the endeavor.
