[Guest Blogger – Ryan McClead]
What Surprised You The Most About Your Profession?
Whether you are new to your profession, or are about to retire, there were some expectations you had when you came in that turned out to not be as you thought it would be. For example, I thought that working in a Law School as a law
We thought we would have a little fun this week and play off of the “geek” in our contributors. This week’s question is:
Which Fictional (Star Trek, Monty Python, Dr. Who, mythical, etc.) character do you think would be outstanding in your profession?
Off the top of my head, I picked Mr. Data from Star
Dealing with vendors isn’t always a bad experience… but we all have our horror stories. This week we’ve asked our group of contributors to share a few of those, or to share some positive experiences as examples for other vendors to learn from.
Without Naming Names (unless you want to…) What drives you crazy when
We are having some fun with this week’s Elephant Post, so you’ll need to follow along with my thinking on this.
In the movie The Princess Bride, there is an exchange between Vizzini and Inigo Montoya. Vizzini keeps saying “INCONCEIVABLE!!” and
Montoya calls him on it:
Consultants say that your job should be outsourced because of __________. Are they wrong?
The downturn in the economy has amplified the calls from management of “justifying your worth” to the firm. Many of us fear the “efficiency experts” (think “The Bobs” in the movie Office Space) coming in and suggesting that the work
I just sat down and watched this video from IBM’s Chief Scientist Jeff Jonas, and he gives us a lot of food for thought on why you should first master the concepts of accounting before you try to work on systems that attempt to make sense of data. The main thought on data, context
How do you build upon the strengths of the administrative people within your law firm – from the mail room to the C-level? We thought of this question after we read a Hildebrandt Baker Robbins blog post called “One Word For Talent.” In that post, Mark Sirkin brings up the fact that firms
“If I could talk to a class of law students, this is what I would say that would help them once they enter the ‘real world’ of working in a law firm.”
Everyone seems to be picking on the way law schools prepare their graduates for the work force… but, what exactly would you do