I am working on my third novel about my protagonist lawyer, Gabriela Sanchez. Gabriela grew up in the Rio Grande Valley where our daughter taught school, our son-in-law grew up and taught school and one of the top lawyers I mentored grew up.
I started writing the third novel in 2019 before COVID-19. The story
In my last post I suggested that to get ready for 2021 you ask your self four questions.
In this blog I want to supplement my questions with the four Ps.
While I coached lawyers on each of these steps, it took listening to a podcast to remind
In 2021, I am posting activities I did with the lawyers I coached.
When I was a young lawyer, I looked ahead five years when I prepared a business plan, visualizing where I wanted to be in my career and life.
When I coached lawyers I suggested that they set goals by looking ahead five
Over the Christmas weekend I watched The Bee Gees documentary on HBO Max.
There were at least three things that amazed me.
A lawyer worked for me many years ago. I doubt he reads my blog, but even so I will call him Pete rather than his real name.
Pete was a really bright lawyer. He was a litigator. When a case came to Pete he might tell the client it was a very strong case. As
My mom’s birthday was last month. On her birthday, I thought about our times together and apart. She and my aunt had moved back to Virginia when we lived there and had followed us from Roanoke to Richmond. Years later we moved to Dallas.
The picture is from Jill’s wedding in 2005, the second to
I confess. When I grew up my heroes played baseball, basketball and football. I spent hours trying to make my pitch look like Don Drysdale’s or my jump shot look like Jerry West’s or Oscar Robertson’s. At the time there was only one quarterback who was about my height. His name was George Mira
Do you have lifetime goals? At the age of 15, John Goddard (The Real Indiana Jones) listed 127 goals he wished to experience or achieve in his lifetime. In the linked article, Goddard is called “The Greatest Goal Achiever,” and rightly so.
After reading about Goddard’s lifetime goals many years ago, I decided to
I want to help you become a more successful lawyer. If you think, you can only be successful if you sacrifice a good family life, I disagree. But, you have to make success happen. You can’t expect success by waiting for it to happen.
A few years ago I read Jack Canfield’s book: The
While COVID-19 has not changed the principles of client development: you have to become visible and credible to your target market, build rapport and trust, get hired, get results and provide extraordinary service, the means of accomplishing the principles during COVID have changed.
Were you practicing law in 2000? If so have you