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About to Become a Partner? Here's What to Know About Your Newfound Wealth

With wealth comes complexity. There is no shortage of stories of otherwise successful attorneys who have squandered this wealth.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

If Trump Wants It, 2+2=5

Former President Donald Trump wants his supporters and enablers to subordinate their real-world perceptions to his political will, Law Journal columnist Bennett L. Gershman writes.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Calculation of Income for Child Support Examined by Superior Court

An intricate component in child support cases is the calculation of the parties' income for purposes of determining child support. In the recent…
7 minute read

Law.com

From Roadblock to Opportunity: Rethinking Client Conflict Processes in Lateral Partner Recruiting

Law firms can and should take proactive steps, such as tackling conflicts earlier and more thoroughly during the recruiting process, to address these challenges and realize the potential of their promising new hire.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

After the Decision in 'Ungarean,' Is the Battle of Insurance Coverage for COVID Losses in Pa. Over?

Many will interpret the Ungarean decision as the death knell for insurance policyholders' hopes of obtaining business interruption coverage for COVID-19 losses under Pennsylvania law, but a careful reading reveals the decision's limited scope.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office. Why Not?

Twenty years after "Nice Girl" and nearly 10 years after "Lean In," is there a need for such resources for female attorneys?
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How to Develop Your Emerging Leaders

At our firm, we have found it most effective to employ various strategies and approaches to developing our next generation of leaders. Some will relate to certain elements over others, but the hope is that a variety of educational methods and the involvement of people with diverse leadership styles and nontraditional paths leads to greater perspective.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How Do You Define Success? Four Women Lawyers Share Their Thoughts

While understanding that success looks very different to each individual woman, we examine what aided these women in achieving their definition of success and what obstacles and barriers still exist. When the ultimate goal is helping each woman lawyer achieve her definition of success—the entire legal profession succeeds.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How Does She Do It All?: Tips and Insights for the Rising Female Attorney

Some of the advice those women provided focused specifically on navigating the challenges females face over the course of a developing legal career, as well as the need to give ourselves grace from time to time on a human level.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Time to Act: A Call for Accountability Amid a Crisis of Female Representation

Work-life pressures and numerous other challenges have led to women being included in law firm leadership at rates that lag far behind female leadership in other industries. These pressures also contribute to women struggling to envision a long-term career path in the law that adequately balances their work and personal aspirations.
8 minute read

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