Email Like a Professional
When you are applying for jobs and internships as a law student, you’ll find the majority of your correspondence will be via email. Your email will often be your first impression and you want to make sure that it is a positive one. Here are three easy ways to make your emails more professional and successful.
Top 5 Questions to Ask Before Pursuing an LLM in Taxation
If you are considering going back to school for your LLM in taxation, here are the top five things you should consider.
End of the Year Overwhelm
As we approach the end of the year, the calendar seems to be getting shorter but our to do lists are getting longer and longer - professionally and personally. Between work, holidays, kids school schedules, holiday parties, and all of the work that is needed to make it all happen, it’s a hectic time. This week we are going to share the ways we try to keep the end of the year overwhelm under control with four strategies we use to keep the overwhelm at bay.
Focusing on the ABA
This week we are starting the conversation about the recent ABA Journal article, “ Are Women Lawyers Paying Enough Attention to Upward Mobility?”
Networking With Confidence
Networking is something that professionals think about regularly because it is critical to a successful practice. Yet, it can be intimidating, overwhelming, and time consuming. Do you feel like networking does not come naturally to you? You are not alone!
A Decade in Practice
We answered questions about our expectations before law school and then after law school, our biggest challenges, and whether we would do it all again, there are also some other questions that really resonated with us.
You are more than your transcript
For the three years of laws school we were hyper-focused on whether or not our transcript would be good enough to make all of this work worthwhile. Would it tell prospective employers that we would be good employees? Was it reflective of all of the sacrifices? What did it tell us about our futures?
Amy’s LLM Journey
Getting an LLM in taxation is something that was always in the back of Amy’s mind as she worked in an estate planning firm with a tax focus. Finally, after seven years in practice, she felt ready to investigate. She was hesitate to go back to school, but wanted to learn more - what’s the harm in applying?
Imposter v. inexperienced
Imposter syndrome is something that affected both of us very significantly in law school. When you are put together in a competitive circumstance with the highest achievers from various aspects of life, feelings of inadequacy and not measuring up are commonplace.
Finding balance
Balance is an illusion, and yet, a common goal. We strive for it, and likely you do too. But is it realistic?
Mission Statements
In this episode we discussed the importance of developing mission statements, the different aspects of your life you can develop missions statements for, and set out of framework to begin to develop your professional mission statement.
Your best work day
There are a few keys to setting yourself up for your best work day. The first is knowing yourself and how you work. However, this self-awareness is not enough because, if it was, we would all be able to work efficiently more easily. But you need to take that awareness of how you work and identify strategies that help you in your work day and things that are less effective ways of accomplishing your tasks.
Meet the lawyers who launch
We are law school besties who met on the very first day of law school orientation. We could never have known then how this chance encounter was going to impact our futures; all we knew was we found a friendly face and an instant connection.