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Personal Branding Corner: How Well Do You Give Back?
By Katy Goshtasbi • November 05, 2012 •Careers
Nothing is more important than feeling like we've actually made a difference in someone's life - someone who may not have all the "things" and blessings we have. From a personal branding perspective, helping others makes us feel good, which generates the "joy" component of the personal brand. This "joy" is what attracts others to you - and your business.In all our corporate work with clientele, we develop community service platforms for the business brands. This involves actually working with each assigned employee to discover their community service niche and how that fits in with the company brand and goals. …
Personal Branding Corner: Can You Make The Big Ask?
By Katy Goshtasbi • October 22, 2012 •Careers
I just spent a weekend working with a group of lawyers at an American Bar Association (ABA) conference. The one subject most every lawyer needed help with was "sales". Specifically, most attorneys were very unsure of when and how to ask for the sale when talking to a prospect. The result is a poor personal brand.I find it really interesting that most professionals have the same view of "sales". That is, their perception is that they are professionally trained in a substantive area (i.e. law, dentistry, medicine, engineering, accounting, etc.) and thus, they should not have to deal with/worry about…
Best Friends at the Bar: Best Friends at the Bar Themes Echo at Washington Women’s Weekly
By Susan Smith Blakely • October 17, 2012 •Careers
Earlier this week I attended a program sponsored by Washington Women's Weekly. If you do not know WWW, get on board by going to http://www.womensweekly-wdc.com. Judith Willson publishes this on-line periodical and plans the program content, and she does a fine job of it. This week's program was no exception.For this special Executive Leadership Series program, Judith brought together three leading business women to discuss whether there is a New Normal and, if there is, does it include not "having it all?" The panel consisted of: Teresa Bozzelli, President of Sapient Government Services; Diane Zanetti, Senior VP of Citibank; and…
From the Courthouse to the Conference Room: The ABA’s Mediation Week Celebrates the Power of Resolution
By Ms. JD Editor • October 14, 2012 •Careers
Editor's Note: In an effort to continue the conversation started by our fabulous She Negotiates panel at She Leads, Ms. JD is happy to spread the word about Mediation Week, brought to you on behalf of the American Bar Association Communications and Media Relations Division. Families, communities, corporations and governments increasingly use mediation as a successful avenue to resolving conflict. The American Bar Association’s Mediation Week Oct. 14 – 20 is a national effort to increase awareness of this effective method to settle disputes beyond the courtroom. “When parties engage in mediation, thorny disagreements are easier to resolve,” says ABA…
Personal Branding Corner: Use Your Intuition Instead Of A Checklist
By Katy Goshtasbi • October 08, 2012 •Careers
Do you sometimes wonder why a client just doesn't seem to warm up to you? Do you wonder why the work you do for these clients seems stiff and lifeless? We think we've discovered the cause and thus, a workable personal branding solution.Working with many clients who are "coaches" or run businesses where they are trained to follow a checklist of some sort, we have found a common problem/issue. These days many people are finding second careers. That's a great thing. People are signing up to become trained in their new careers. These trainings often include a year-long program where…
Overheard at She Leads: The DQs
By Ms. JD Editor • October 08, 2012 •Careers
Thank you all for making She Leads a success! We're doing our best to continue sharing some of the nuggets of advice from Ms. JD She Leads! Here's some of the best advice overheard during the DQs session:1. Find people you admire and see how they network, develop business, and complete their every day tasks!2. Make a business plan - identify your connections, the events you want to attend to build your connections, how you will follow up with people. Don't just have lunch or coffee, THINK about what you can give the person before you meet with them.3. On…
Post-OCI Job Strategies; By Sara Gail, Esq.
By Raj Selvadurai • September 26, 2012 •Careers
It is that time of year--you had a great summer; you polished up your resume and your shoes; and you tried to find a job through your school’s on campus recruiting efforts. But OCI is over and perhaps it didn’t go your way. What do you do now? The first thing to do is to take a deep breath. Assess and accept your position. You didn’t get the job of your dreams—or at least not yet. So take a minute to ask yourself a few questions and answer them honestly. What type of job do you want? Do you want…
For The Times They Are A-Changin’
By Elizabeth Harris • September 17, 2012 •Careers
When I think of strong women in the legal field, the first person that comes to mind would be my mother. At the time, she was among a very small minority of women who not only received a J.D., but also an L.L.M. in tax. She wanted both a long and successful legal career and a family life when many women left private practice after the birth of their first child. Thirty-three years later, she has a career she still loves, she is a shareholder in a firm with over 300 attorneys, and she has four children who felt their…
Overheard at the Ms. JD, Lateral Link, and Haynes Boone Mid-Level Associates Forum in Dallas, Texas
By Katherine Larkin-Wong • September 16, 2012 •Careers
Last Friday, Ms. JD and Lateral Link hosted a Mid-Level Associates Forum in Dallas, Texas. The event, which was sponsored by Ms. JD Law Firm Sponsor, Haynes and Boone, was an incredible success. I was lucky enough to attend and get to hear the incredible advice offered by panelists Marilyn Moore Basso, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Celanese Corporation, Anne Johnson, Partner at Haynes and Boone, and Christina Marshall, Associate at Haynes and Boone. Mardy Sackley, Managing Director at Lateral Link moderated the panel and offered her own perspective from her time as a big law partner. Below,…