Latest Alternativelegalcareers Podcast Episodes
Episode 136- Aliant, a New Global Model for Practicing Law with Jacob Stein
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - July 10, 2024 01:21 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLaw is a conservative profession where change happens slowly. Law firms generally lag far behind accounting firms in creating new models. But since the explosion of the internet in the late 1990s, that rate of change has begun to accelerate. And with the rapid proliferation of ChatGPT and other...
Episode 135-Tackling Mental Health Issues in the Law with Amy Levine and LCL
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - June 25, 2024 00:50 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAttorney well-being continues to be a hot topic in the legal community. While the most severe effects of the pandemic are now behind us, mental health continues to be a significant issue in our profession. But there is a lot being done to address these challenges. To provide some context, s...
Episode 134-Law Firm Succession Planning with David Wood
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - June 12, 2024 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAs the baby boomer generation of lawyers approaches retirement, many firms are facing the looming challenge of ensuring a seamless transition for their clients. This process is not just about maintaining business continuity but also about safeguarding the firm's legacy and client relationships....
Episode 133-Transitioning to In-house From Litigation and Building a Legal Team—With Matt Campobasso
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - June 04, 2024 01:02 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFor many lawyers in private practice, going in-house is the ultimate goal. For transactional lawyers and for some specialties like employment law, the path to a corporate role is more obvious. For litigators, less so. Most companies outsource a lot of their litigation because the need tends to...
Episode 132-My Return to Live Conferences
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - May 06, 2024 17:27 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsI was beginning to think that live conferences were in my rear view mirror...until I attended the Annual Education Conference of the National Association for Law Placement. It was my first live conference in over four years. And I was like a kid in a candy shop. While I've made a point of go...
Episode 131-Becoming Memorable with Merry Neitlich
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - April 19, 2024 22:14 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe’ve talked a lot on this show about sales and marketing and how selling legal services is different than selling a product. That’s good news for those of us in the legal industry because many of us don’t like the thought of being a salesperson. Selling legal services is about relationship...
Episode 130-Emotional Intelligence and EQ i-2.0 With Susan Schwartz
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - April 11, 2024 13:32 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsI've had a number of guests on this show speaking about leadership. A large part of this is that I'm very interested in the subject. But I also feel that this is a skill set that is often neglected in the legal profession. As lawyers, we learn a lot about our craft in law school and even mor...
Episode 129-Law Firm Leadership with Kristi Royse
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - March 23, 2024 13:47 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe practice of law has evolved a lot in the three decades since I graduated from law school. Technology has replace many monotonous functions and computers have replaced paper. The internet has revolutionized how legal research is done and how law firms market themselves. It has enabled remo...
Episode 128-Here Comes the Judge- the Honorable Paul Wilson (ret.)
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - March 09, 2024 21:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFor a long time, I’ve been meaning to invite a judge onto Counsel to Counsel to talk about judicial careers. Going on the bench is a logical next step for many litigators and I wanted to speak to a judge who could offer some practical wisdom on the subject. When I met Paul Wilson at an ABA ...
Episode 127-Law Firm Operations and Launching Your Own Firm-With Diane Camacho
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - February 24, 2024 22:57 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the legal press and even in popular media, larger law firms tend to get a most of the attention. In truth, a high percentage of lawyers in the United States practice in firms that are under 20 attorneys. And many of those are solo practitioners or very small firms that have broken away fro...
Episode 126-Embracing Legal Technology with Colin Levy
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - February 05, 2024 21:51 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen I graduated from law school in the late 1980s, there was no internet, no email, and fax machines were widely in use. I used a Dictaphone to generate correspondence and had an assistant to transcribe the tapes. While working remotely was possible because of the telephone, going into an o...
Episode 125-James Grace on Financial Planning After the Bar
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - January 20, 2024 22:47 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe talk a lot on this program about finding ways to build a more satisfying legal career. While many attorneys are drawn to the profession because they care about justice, they like the idea of becoming a trusted advisor, or they just enjoy the intellectual rigor of being an attorney, status a...
Episode 124-Lauren Rikleen on Social Justice and Defending American Democracy
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - January 07, 2024 03:07 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode, I speak with my first “threepeat” guest, Lauren Rikleen. This is Lauren’s third appearance on Counsel to Counsel. She was actually one of my first guests when I launched the show in 2018. In that episode, we spoke about success strategies for women and the work she has done o...
Episode 123-Setting Your 2024 Goals and Creating Your “To Don't" List with Jennifer Forester and Wendy Merrill
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - December 09, 2023 01:52 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDecember is a great time to take stock, hit the reset button, and do some planning. With 2024 around the corner, I’ve been speaking with my clients about setting goals for the new year. I’m not talking about making New Year’s resolutions. It's important to understand that resolutions...
Episode 122-For the Sake of Your Mental Health, Stop Thinking (and Acting) Like a Lawyer
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - November 30, 2023 13:03 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAs attorneys, we share many qualities that make us effective in representing our clients. Our skepticism, aversion to risk, sense of urgency, competitiveness, and pessimism, can all be good for out clients. But when it comes to building a practice, advancing our careers, or taking on leadersh...
Episode 121-John Buckley on Building Your Executive Presence
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - November 05, 2023 13:04 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIt is axiomatic that if you want to have a successful legal career, you need to learn your craft. Most areas of legal practice require highly refined analytical abilities coupled with good judgment. For the most part, the first developmental task of any new lawyer is to learn how to practice law...
Episode 120-Scaling Your Law Firm with AI
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - October 21, 2023 18:12 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsArtificial Intelligence continues to be a big unknown in the legal space. It holds tremendous promise for streamlining the delivery of legal services and is already being deployed to expedite discovery, to help draft contracts, to assist with client intake, and to streamline many other function...
Episode 119-From Law Firm Associate to In-House Operations-With Shawn Hoyt
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - October 07, 2023 22:39 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the past year, I’ve done a number of interviews with lawyers who have transitioned from the traditional practice of law into other corporate or consulting roles. In this episode, I speak with Shawn Hoyt about how to transition into an operations role in a corporate environment. Shawn is som...
Episode 118-Paths to Partnership in 2023 and Beyond-With Laura Terrell
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - September 16, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAchieving partnership was once the goal of most law firm associates. The rules were relatively simple. Work hard, do a good job, and after several years, get rewarded by being elevated. Today the law firms are more complex. Many associates entering the practice of law do not aspire to beco...
Episode 117-Nailing the Job Interview-A View From Both Sides of the Table with Amy Katz and Nancy Reiner
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - September 02, 2023 02:17 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJob interviews can cause a lot of stress. Over the years, I’ve come to appreciate that this is true whether you are the candidate or the interviewer. The stakes can feel high. Both sides are trying to assess whether they are right for each other. The candidate may be imagining that they a...
Episode 116-Why Do Rankings and Awards Matter? It’s Not What You Think!
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - August 28, 2023 00:32 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Reader Rankings Awards are out, and I’m pleased to report that once again, I did very well. This year I came in first for Lawyer Outplacement and for Business Development Coach. I also came in second for Executive Coaching. So the subject of awards is top ...
Episode 115-Legal Hiring in 2023-A View From the Recruiters Desk with Emily Witt
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - July 28, 2023 21:59 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIt has been over a year since I finally left the legal recruiting business to focus exclusively on coaching. Since the market has changed a lot since early 2022, I thought this would be a good time to invite someone who is still in the business to talk about the state of legal hiring. I also ...
Episode 114-From Biglaw to In-house to Business Role and Back Again with Carl Berglind
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - July 23, 2023 21:03 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the last two episodes of Counsel to Counsel, I spoke with a lawyer who left corporate practice for management consulting and a trial lawyer who has built a trial consulting business but continues to try cases. In this episode, I speak with a corporate lawyer who cut his teeth at internati...
Episode 113-From Litigation to Trial Consulting with Marc Diller
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - July 07, 2023 21:10 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn Episode 112 of Counsel to Counsel, I spoke with David Lesser, a corporate lawyer who transitioned into management consulting and quit his day job as a corporate lawyer. In this episode, I speak with a litigator who has transitioned into jury and trial consulting while keeping his day job...
Episode 112-From Corporate Counsel to Management Consultant-Leveraging Your Legal Career with David Lesser
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - June 27, 2023 13:20 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen lawyers approach me to speak about their careers, one question they often ask is “what else can I do with my law degree”. The answer to that question is of course complex. As lawyers, we are trained to spot legal issues, evaluate risk, document deals, and litigate disputes. Most emplo...
Episode 111-Finding C.H.I.L.L. Referral Partners to Grow your Network and Your Business
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - June 06, 2023 16:28 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsRelationship building is the key to growing your practice. But who should you be focusing on when it comes to relationship building? In this episode, Steve Seckler explains how the acronym C.H.I.L.L. can help you to make smart choices in finding the "right" professional relationships to cultiva...
Episode 110-Dominic Grew on “Getting to No”-Turning Leads into Business and Other Ways to Succeed in Private Practice
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - May 17, 2023 01:37 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLike most lawyers, I went to law school because I wanted to enter an honorable profession. I wanted to have a career where the emphasis is on intellect and not on business. Not long after graduation, I realized that law IS a business and if you want to be successful, being a great lawyer is n...
Episode 109-Sarah Tetlow on Delegating and Dealing with Distraction
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - May 02, 2023 14:32 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis episode was recorded during Well-Being Week in Law 2023. In Massachusetts and around the country, there are a lot of programs being offered to get lawyers thinking about the many mental health challenges that are widespread in the legal community. This particular week was designated to a...
Episode 108-Steve Seckler: Coaching Superstar Lawyers (from the Be That Lawyer Podcast)
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - April 20, 2023 01:22 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this Episode of Counsel to Counsel, I'm bringing you the feed from Steve Fretzin's great podcast, Be That Lawyer. Steve is an outstanding business development coach for attorneys. He is an author and friend who has taught me a lot about BD coaching. In this episode, Steve interviews me ab...
Episode 107-ChatGPT and Trends in Legal Marketing Technology-with Jared Correia
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers - April 01, 2023 20:14 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsI don’t spend a lot of time talking about technology on this podcast. But I use technology all the time to manage my business and to increase my marketing efficiency. In fact technology is a critical reason why I am able to operate as a solo and while I don’t have to outsource much of my own m...
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