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Getting Clients - and Getting Credit For Them

Discover practical strategies for women lawyers to build a strong book of business, attract new c...

Melanie Houk

June 23, 2026

Wisdom for Lawyers from Ms JD’s Limitless Honorees

Celebrate the Ms. JD 2026 Limitless honorees—Desiree Ralls-Morrison, Phuong Phillips, and Sheraya...

Ms. JD

April 22, 2026

Failure is not an Option, it’s an Opportunity

To my students and to anyone hesitating on the edge of a new opportunity: don’t let fear of failu...

Shea Holman Kilian

March 31, 2026

Behind the Bands & Briefs with Anjeli Narine

Over the span of our legal careers, we may find ourselves at different points on the legal practi...

Bellina Barrow

November 11, 2025

To Law or Not To Law?

After 30+ years of practicing law, I sometimes forget that I didn’t always follow a traditional p...

Melanie Houk

November 5, 2025

Breakneck Innovation and the Law

The world has been experiencing the breakneck pace of the 4th Industrial Revolution, marked by em...

Bellina Barrow

October 22, 2025

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