Authoring this blog post after serving as an issue editor for the Professional Development edition (February 2025) of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Today webzine, I suddenly was having a sense of déjà vu. Turns out I was the issue editor of LPT’s multigenerational and multicultural issues nearly 10…
Articles Posted in “Young Lawyers”
LPT: Great Expectations? Getting a Young Lawyer’s Marketing Efforts off the Ground
My first sit-downs with law firm management to discuss marketing strategies were 20 years ago. In the subsequent two decades, I held those discussions in the board rooms of Amlaw 100 law firms and in conference rooms of law firms with ten or fewer. Their approach to marketing expectations from…
Buchdahl to present Ethics CLE on Building a Book of Business at ABA Annual Meeting
If you are attending the upcoming ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, you are welcome to attend this complimentary continuing legal education program being put on by the ABA Young Lawyers Division, at the Palace Hotel (Presidio, Second Floor) on Friday, August 9, 2013 from 11 am-noon PT. For…
LPT: Young Lawyers Survival Guide
This month marks the first of our two annual “Young Lawyers Survival Guide” issues of Law Practice Today, developed in coordination with the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division. Thanks to issue editor Elizabeth Henslee for putting together an outstanding collection of articles designed with the young lawyer audience in mind–although almost…