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How Online CLE Changes My Professional Career

I know this is dating myself, but Illinois had no continuing legal education requirements when I started my young career. What's worse, by the time the state started requiring CLE hours to keep your license, courses were hard to come by. To obtain these necessary credits, I would have to attend hours-long lectures in auditoriums jammed with others trying to acquire the same certifications I needed, sometimes after traveling great distances to …

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Don’t Get Burned Out – Some Tips On Achieving Work/Life Balance

One of the hardest things to watch is a talented lawyer walk away from the practice. Too often I have seen top-notch attorneys leave because they struggle to find a middle ground between a healthy personal life and a fulfilling legal career. I get it. About 10 years after graduating from law school, I started questioning my own career path. My wife and I just welcomed our first child and I realized I was having a hard time spending enough time …

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Referral Partners are the Currency to Build Your Practice

As a young lawyer, I failed to see the importance of getting to know other lawyers. In my mind, they were the competition and there was no need to interact with them. Was I ever wrong. The simple truth is: lawyers refer business to other lawyers all the time. Why? Because your practice may focus on one area – such as Intellectual Property – and your client is looking for help with Contract Law. You would be at a disservice trying to help …

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