Law Practice Magazine

Big Dream
Midlife Career Transitions
Advice for the restless from lawyers who have reimagined and retooled their careers.
Table of Contents
Features
Advice for the Restless Lawyer: Discovering Your Possibilities
Right Time, Right Place: A New Mission as Law Firm COO
No More Default Judgments: Recapturing the Dream
After 30 years in practice, this corporate counsel launched a new seafaring life and a new career. Here are the DIY steps that led her to living the best of her life in the law—on her own terms. Plus: Resources for Reinventing.
Pursuing My Passion: A Lawyer Novelist Plots Perfect Endings
A demanding day job and a pile of rejection letters didn’t stop this employment lawyer from pursuing her dream of writing legal thrillers. Here she reveals lessons in perseverance and the pursuit of the perfect plotline, with a book deal at the end. Plus: Tips for Writing a Novel Despite Your Day Job.
You and Me and Our Life Passions
Technology
Hot Buttons
Forensics Experts in the Crosshairs
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How to Back Up Your PCs and Macs: An Obsessive’s Guide for the Small Law Firm
Tips & Tricks
Eking Extra Time Out of Cell Phones, PDAs and Other Portable Devices
Business
Profitability
Making Hay: Tips for Optimizing the Second Half
Rainmaking
How to Prepare the Groundwork for Transitioning Your Relationships
Managing
Creating an Excellent Client Service Environment
Rip It!
Seven Simple Rules for Avoiding Malpractice Liability
Frontlines
What REALLY Works
Dramatic Flair Grabs the Applause in Advertising
Here’s how a Florida firm used a creative image ad campaign to build its brand—and its revenue. Plus: Dealing With the Marketing Ethics Rules
Trends Report
Developing Down Under and Across the Pond: Publicly Held Law Firms
Will U.S. firms feel the impact of developments overseas?
Five Things
How to Maximize Your Publishing Opportunities