As you may know, I have written two novels. I started The Billionaire’s Lawyer in 2014 and finally finished it after writing ten versions in 2018.
I wrote about my efforts in a blog titled: My Novel: The Billionaire’s Lawyer.
My 2018 blog post answers the question of why I chose Gabriela Sanchez as
I don’t generally find books on sales to be very helpful, but…
I found The Best Damn Sales Book Ever by Warren Greshes very helpful.
He made some points that fit very well with what I tried to teach lawyers and what I did when I practiced law.
First, he talked about motivation. I believe
Laura is a lawyer I coached when I was in charge of attorney development in my old law firm. One night when she and her husband were eating dinner with Nancy and me, Laura shared with us that at the end of each day after she put her two children in bed, she was absolutely
In a 2017 article titled: 7 reasons Americans are unhappy, I read:
Americans are more unhappy than they were before the great recession.
Then, I found a Washington Post article titled: Why the U.S. rating on the World Happiness Report is lower than it should be –and how to change it. I read:
Thirty
Four years ago this week I posted a blog titled: If I write a novel about a law firm…I need your ideas. As you will see, on that day I was starting a novel writing class. In January of 2014, I began writing a novel.
Four years and nine drafts later, I have finally
For many years I have said lawyers focus too much on what they do and not nearly enough on what their clients need. How can you learn what your clients need? Put simply, if you do some research and listen intently, they will tell you.
In law school, you were taught to
think like a
I recently received a copy of an email from a lawyer I am coaching to the others in her coaching group. She said:
I am not sure how many of you are reading Cordell’s book, but I just read a great tip in there that I thought that I would share with you. It is
Many of you know that several lawyers I coach read books and then share their takeaways from the book with me and sometimes with others in a group they formed.
Melissa Lyon is an energy lawyer in the Fox Rothschild Denver Office. She writes on the firm’s Energy Law Blog and as you will see
We frequently visit a family with a daughter who will be a junior in high school in September. I have rarely seen her eyes as they are usually focused on her cell phone texting back and forth with friends.
I wonder what it will be like at a law firm when the current high school
“Being the best in the world is seriously underrated.”
I loved this quote when I first read Seth Godin’s at book: The Dip.
What does it mean to be “the best in the world?”
First, it is being perceived as the best by your clients and potential clients. You can not become the best