Need some advice? Here's a roundup of our tips and tricks to help launch your 2021
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At the ABA Journal, part of our mission is to provide useful, relevant advice for members of the legal profession. The past year presented challenges that left all of us scrambling for guidance, and we did our best to serve readers' interests in five major areas: their practice, their well-being, their skill sets, their ethical duties and their career transitions.
Improving your practice
• 50 ways to market your practice
• Nicole Black’s legal tech recommendations from 2020
• What law firms and legal organizations should consider before creating their own apps
• Why this lawyer increased his fees during the COVID-19 pandemic
• 12 tips to market your law practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Top tips to have more effective follow-up with potential clients
• How to maximize your business development during the COVID-19 crisis
• How to practice law remotely and efficiently during the COVID-19 crisis
• 6 key numbers that can diagnose the financial health of your law practice
Safeguarding your well-being
• 4 lessons we can learn as a profession from the pandemic
• 8 tips for lawyers on how to build resilience
• 6 strategies to get a perfectionistic lawyer off the ledge
• 10 steps to identify irrational resistance to self-care
• How lawyers can manage stress and cortisol levels during the COVID-19 crisis
Honing your skills
• TV-star-turned-lawyer offers 10 acting tips for trial lawyers
• Having a hard time connecting with your witness? Try these tips
• How to achieve vocal power in and out of the courtroom
• Polish your writing skills with Bryan Garner’s 2020 advice
• Lessons for lawyers from Steve Jobs
Avoiding ethics traps
• How to avoid 10 common ethics pitfalls
• How to ethically respond to negative reviews from clients
• Knowing when to tell your client no and other ethical dilemmas
Launching (or relaunching) your legal career
• You accepted a clerkship; now what? A to-do list for before your first day
• Top tips to successfully finish the first year of law school in a pandemic
• How late-career litigators can reinvent themselves as law firm mentors
• 9 tips on how to dress for the courtroom
• An insider’s guide to succeeding in law school—even during the COVID-19 pandemic
