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6 Reasons Career Planning Is Uniquely Challenging for Lawyers
Career planning is difficult for most professionals. For lawyers, it is uniquely complex. Over the past years, research has consistently shown elevated levels of stress, burnout, and disengagement within the legal profession. At the same time, many lawyers hesitate to...
Why We Stay Too Long: The Sunk Cost Fallacy in Career Redesign
You’ve done everything right. You worked hard, specialized, built credibility. You made the choices that led you to success — or at least, what was supposed to feel like success. But now, something’s off. The Sunday anxiety is constant, creativity is gone, and your...
How to Use Informational Interviews to Design Your Next Career Move
When I ask my coaching clients — lawyers, musicians, and other professionals — to reach out and talk to someone about their job, they often look at me as if I’ve just suggested something radical. “You mean… just message them and ask about their work?” Yes. Exactly...
How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Redesign Their Careers
Most lawyers know how to analyze cases, draft contracts, and argue persuasively. But when it comes to their own careers, many admit they never had a real strategy. They followed the “logical” path — law school, a first job, and then whatever came next. Years later,...
Things We Don’t Talk (Enough) About in Law School
Most of us entered law school with high hopes and the promise of a rewarding career—but where do we stand today on this journey? Recent research paints a complex picture of job satisfaction and mental health in the legal profession. Is the challenge rooted in poor...
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