April 22, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Business Development Is an Essential Skill to CultivateFor lawyers who practice in a firm of any size, focusing on business development is essential to the growth of their business. Otherwise, lawyers risk turning their practice into a pastime with no clients—which translates to a career with no earnings.
By Jeremy Berry | Special to the Daily Report
3 minute read
April 22, 2015 | Daily Report Online
Business Development Is an Essential Skill to CultivateFor lawyers who practice in a firm of any size, focusing on business development is essential to the growth of their business. Otherwise, lawyers risk turning their practice into a pastime with no clients—which translates to a career with no earnings.
By Jeremy Berry | Special to the Daily Report
3 minute read
November 20, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal
Tell Protégés to Go Fly a KitePartners should do all they can to help associates protect their work-life balance and maintain their identity outside the office.
By Jeremy Berry
4 minute read
November 19, 2014 | Daily Report Online
Associate Recommends Partners Advise Proteges to Go Fly a KitePartners, please tell your associates to go jump in a lake, take a hike, or go fly a kite. Please! Associates will be better off for it and partners and clients will benefit from an associate who is not always stuck in the office.
By Jeremy Berry
4 minute read
November 06, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal
Have the Money Talk With AssociatesAssociates should look for opportunities to learn about law firm economics and management.
By Jeremy Berry
3 minute read
October 29, 2014 | Daily Report Online
Have the Money Talk With AssociatesEmployees and shareholders want to know how their companies are performing financially. Associates also care—or should care—about the financial health of their own law firm.
By Jeremy Berry
3 minute read
October 08, 2014 | Daily Report Online
Dear Partner: As the Holidays Approach, Consider the Gift of FeedbackAssociates, particularly new associates, yearn and deserve feedback. Whether formally through an annual review process, or via informal comments and pointers offered during an assignment, partners should provide as much feedback to an associate as possible.
By Jeremy Berry
4 minute read
September 17, 2014 | Daily Report Online
Why You Should Consider Associates to be 'Partners in Training'Take control of your own career, associates. And partners, please do all that you can to let associates drive their own careers.
By Jeremy Berry
4 minute read
July 07, 2014 | Daily Report Online
O.C.G.A. § 9-10-2: The Five-Day Notice Rule ExplainedIn a section that most lawyers are unlikely to encounter in their day-to-day practice, the Georgia Code throws a procedural curveball that can strike you out (or at least delay your at-bat) if you fail to see it coming in a matter involving the state or a state official.
By J. Randolph Evans, Thurbert Baker, Jeremy Berry and Michelle Swiren Zaltsberg
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