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From Writing Briefs to Writing Fiction

By Cordell Parvin on October 8, 2020
Posted in Book Reviews

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…

Client Development: Some Nifty Ideas You Can Implement

By Cordell Parvin on September 29, 2020
Posted in Book Reviews, Career Development, Client Development

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 …

A Book You Should Read Now: The Power of Full Engagement

By Cordell Parvin on September 12, 2019
Posted in Book Reviews, Career Development

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…

How to go from burnout to balance?

By Cordell Parvin on May 8, 2018
Posted in Book Reviews, Career Development

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

…

My Novel: The Billionaire’s Lawyer

By Cordell Parvin on January 29, 2018
Posted in Book Reviews

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…

Client Relationships: Time to Start Thinking Like a Client

By Cordell Parvin on December 20, 2017
Posted in Book Reviews, Career Development, Client Development

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

…

Practicing Law: The Will to Prepare to Win

By Cordell Parvin on March 7, 2017
Posted in Book Reviews, Career Development, Client Development

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

…

Client Development: Here’s a Book for You

By Cordell Parvin on September 8, 2016
Posted in Book Reviews

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…

Email (Text) Addiction Keeps Us Unfocused

By Cordell Parvin on June 23, 2016
Posted in Book Reviews, Career Development

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…

Lawyers: Being the Best in the World is Seriously Underrated

By Cordell Parvin on June 21, 2016
Posted in Book Reviews, Career Development, Client Development

“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…

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