Tips For Lawyers Podcast

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 20:42:00
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Synopsis

The Tips for Lawyers show is here to provide lawyers with the tools they need to thrive in legal practice.It's to fill a gap in the training of law students, lawyers and attorneys: practical legal skills and training. Lawyers and attorneys for a long time now have begun to ignore or avoid the skills and knowledge that are being utilised by businesses and entrepreneurs all over the world. For some reason, we seem to think that we are special in legal practice, and avoid taking on board skills that could help us develop better relationships with clients, more valuable endeavours for our law firms, and better outcomes in terms of profit. The Tips For Lawyers show will deal with topics that allow us to improve our communication skills, our marketing and business development (or rainmaking), our productivity as lawyers, time billing and recording, persuasion and advocacy, legal writing skills and drafting, and an abundance of other ways in which lawyers can be more personally productive, useful and beneficial to their firm and their client.The show also deals with the struggles and issues that young lawyers face in getting through day to day practice.Subscribe today - and see how you can genuinely love a legal career.

Episodes

  • Are you an Imposter?

    27/08/2014 Duration: 25min

    In episode 10 of the Tips for Lawyers podcast I talk about “imposter syndrome” and how it might apply to lawyers. What is imposter syndrome?  It’s that feeling you get when you are in a situation that’s beyond what you see as your capacity. It might be where you don’t have the capacity to deal […]

  • How to Write an Advice

    27/08/2014 Duration: 24min

    Legal Writing is not a very sexy topic.  However, your legal career really hinges on your ability to communicate complex legal principles in a way that allows clients to understand it, and in a way that addresses their questions. So often we fill up our legal advices with unnecessary fluff, resulting in unhappy clients who […]

  • Legal Careers should Add Value

    27/08/2014 Duration: 19min

    Your legal career is pretty important to you, and I understand that.  So the question in today’s podcast is how you go about adding value to your legal career and advance your career prospects in the process. I raised one aspect (profit) briefly in this post recently, but here I cover a range of different […]

  • Performance Reviews – why we hate them, and how to fix it

    27/08/2014 Duration: 21min

    In my time as a lawyer I’ve yet to come across anyone who genuinely loves performance reviews.  In reality, most people can’t stand performance reviews.  From the moment they get their self-assessment form, until the time it’s over and everything has been submitted, performance reviews are a time of stress, angst and worry.  Add to that […]

  • 8 Reasons to Improve your Legalese

    27/08/2014 Duration: 13min

    It’s essential for lawyers to develop their legalese properly. In this podcast I provide 8 pieces of wisdom to really get your legalese on the right path. Specifically in this podcast you will learn: Why clients need to appreciate how smart you are, and how using legalese can really help you in that respect Why your […]

  • How to Work a Room (networking for new lawyers)

    27/08/2014 Duration: 23min

    Attending a function and trying to meet and network with new people for business doesn’t fill many new lawyers with joy.  In this episode of the podcast I talk about some tips for working a room, including: Getting over your fears What to do with your mobile phone Finding out about the others in attendance […]

  • What is Firm Culture, and What do you Do About it?

    27/08/2014 Duration: 24min

    In this podcast I tell you what you need to know about law firm culture.   Law Firms have been talking about their “great culture” now for a while, but I’m not totally convinced whether anyone actually knows what they mean when they are discussing it. Oh – they’ve got a “great culture” or “their culture […]

  • A little procrastination goes a long way

    27/08/2014 Duration: 29min

    Show Notes Procrastination is to productivity as rust is to iron.  It erodes, eats away, and ultimately destroys your ability to be productive. So I made a podcast about it. In this episode you will learn: Why I didn’t tell you how to find the show notes earlier; Some of the main causes of procrastination […]

  • Forming New Habits

    27/08/2014 Duration: 13min

    Tips for Lawyers Podcast Episode 2 – Show Notes In episode 2 of the Tips for Lawyers podcast I talk about forming new habits. What does that mean?  Well we deal with: Why I’m talking about changing habits in a podcast that’s supposed to be about lawyers; How people are made up of a bundle […]

  • The Podcast Begins!!!

    27/08/2014 Duration: 18min

    Tips for Lawyers Podcast Episode 1 – Show Notes Finally. FINALLY!!!! Yes, I’ve been talking about it for a while, but this is the first Tips for Lawyers podcast.  I hope you get something out of it – if you’re a long term reader, you might find you know a lot of the stuff in […]

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