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Everything Nobody Ever Told Me: Building and Maintaining a Practice with Clients You Love - Webinar
By Paula M Jones • May 17, 2020 •Writers in Residence, Careers, Other Career Issues, Law School, Choosing a Career and Landing a Job, Issues, Mentoring and Networking
Editor's Note: Ms. JD 2020 Writer in Residence Paula Jones is offering a free webinar on Tuesday, May 19. Check out the details below! Please join me for this complimentary webinar, enabling you to realize a client base with whom you truly love to work. In this webinar, you'll: · Learn how to network to find clients you love · Learn what to listen for, to identify which clients will work best with you · Figure out if your client values your services – within the first ten minutes of meeting · Learn to heighten your sense of awareness about…
How Technology Intervention Can Help Address Healthcare Fraud Rise
By Jim Dwyer • May 11, 2020 •Careers, Nonprofits and the Public Interest, Issues, Other Issues
Fraud in all forms and sizes may occur in healthcare, most especially now in the middle of a crisis. Health care fraud schemes are again on the rise. An unscrupulous medical doctor could, for example, use patient information to check for non-rendered services. There is also something called the unbundling of the medical code, whereby a patient is charged for every individual step of the procedure. Enhance Biometrics Security One way to combat medicare fraud and abuse is by applying biometric safety measures in hospitals. When a patient reaches a verification stage, the process is strengthened by biometrics — such as…
Promo Strategies for Women-Owned Law Firms
By Susan Smith Blakely • May 07, 2020 •Careers, Other Career Issues
A lot is changing in the law profession today. The legal websites, blogs and periodicals are following all of it, and I have an article coming out soon in the ABA Journal addressing what law firm leaders can learn from coronavirus. I will share a link with you when I have it. Technology has rapidly changed law practice during the isolation we all are experiencing, and there is well-informed speculation that these same technological applications will be just as valuable post COVID-19 as they have been during mandatory working from home. The need for expensive brick and mortar offices will be…-100x100.jpg)
Practice Pointers – Drafting an Effective Resume
By Natasha Alladina • April 25, 2020 •Writers in Residence, Careers, Law School, Choosing a Career and Landing a Job
Let’s get right to it. For most, resume writing isn’t the sexiest of drafting tasks. But it’s a necessary one. And in what’s become a rapidly tighter job market, you know it’s better to go ahead and tackle that dreaded task now. As Eminem wisely wrote: Look If you had One shot Or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted Would you capture it Or just let it slip? Pretty sure he wasn’t talking about resume writing, but he might as well have been. Your resume is your first impression, your one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you…
What Can Law Firm Leaders Learn from a Pandemic?
By Susan Smith Blakely • April 23, 2020 •Careers, Firms and the Private Sector
Law firm leaders come in all shapes, sizes, skin colors and backgrounds. They are both male and female, young and old. Some are effective, and some are not. And the differences in their effectiveness as leaders are especially apparent during a challenging time like a pandemic, which changes all the traditional rules in a very traditional profession. Like wheat and chaff, like milk and cream. Only the best rise to the top --- or, at least, that is the way it should work. So, what can effective leaders learn from a pandemic. It is an odd question, but it needs…
Are Law Firms Training Leaders or Followers?
By Susan Smith Blakely • April 16, 2020 •Careers, Firms and the Private Sector
I have been wondering about this for years. Are law firms training effective leaders --- or are they simply creating followers? We are seeing a lot of ineffective leadership in public office these days on both sides of the aisle --- “leaders” who would rather tell us what we want to hear rather than what we need to hear. And some of that ineffective leadership also is right here in our own profession. Effective leaders have plans to make things better. They do not shy away from leadership because they know that will create models for followers. And followers do…
Will Kindness Prevail in Law Firms Beyond the Days of Coronavirus?
By Susan Smith Blakely • April 09, 2020 •Careers, Firms and the Private Sector
The coronavirus pandemic has been devastating to so many lives and complicating and stressful to so many others. It has left many experiences in its wake that will best be forgotten, if that is even possible. Images from the news each night, alone, will be hard to forget. As much as we want to forget much of what has gone on in America during the last 90-plus days, there are some things that I hope we remember. I hope that we remember the kindness. I hope that we remember the caring. I hope that we remember the civility. I…
Working at Home During Coronavirus
By Susan Smith Blakely • April 02, 2020 •Careers, Other Career Issues
I know that you probably have read articles on line recently with advice about working from home in the age of coronavirus. The themes are generally the same. Here is my take on it for young lawyers. I believe that the best way to survive an extended isolation and working from home is to maintain a ROUTINE. Establishing a routine and sticking to it will reap huge rewards when the time comes to go back to brick and mortar places of business. You will have created fewer bad isolation habits. Routine also will help you establish a healthy mental…
Ms. JD Virtual Toolkit: Maximizing Opportunities, Maintaining Productivity & Exercising Good Judgment in Challenging Times (4/21)
By Ms. JD Editor • April 01, 2020 •Ms. JD, Careers, Issues
Ms. JD Virtual Toolkit Webinar Series "Maximizing Opportunities, Maintaining Productivity & Exercising Good Judgment in Challenging Times" with Debbie Epstein Henry, Founder of DEH Consulting, Speaking, Writing & Executive Consultant of Axiom Register today at https://bit.ly/msjdvirtualtoolkit6