Q: What do you get when you match anonymity with being able to vent about the workplace? A: My favorite new app, Fishbowl. Fishbowl is a social app for professionals that helps you connect and have relevant conversations with others across your industry and company.You can join different “bowls” (professional groups) with others from the […]
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Merry merry everyone! I got the idea for this post as I was sipping out of one of my favorite lawyer mugs. Thought it might be a fun place to share some of my favorite gifts – ones that I have and ones that I get for others! Enjoy and let me know if you
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Some famous words – you get a call from a partner so high from firm HQ that you barely ever have talked to them before, and they tell you that they are “thankful for all the hard work but are making some adjustments to the staffing.” Hm, well okay. What does that mean? And what
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So my first month of being “part-time” (which I put in quotes because it basically means just trying to reach some sort of normal American working hours schedule as opposed to crazy full-time biglaw schedule) is in the books – and I’ll say it was a fail in some ways, but a success in others.
Okay, I’ve been wanting to do this one for a while. What are the craziest corporate sayings you have ever heard that took you a minute (or a Google search) to understand? Embarrassingly, these are mine: “10-4.” Sorry, what? 10am-4pm? #Confused. Apparently, “10-4” is “an affirmative signal: it means ‘OK.’” Well, I’ll be darned because
It had been so long since we took a vacation without the kids, and honestly, I forgot what to pack. So here I am writing this from my beach front vacation, hoping that this list will help you remember what to bring on your next trip! A book! The second day we laid out by
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It was July 4, 2018. I had just started a new job about a month earlier. I was still proving myself. I also had a 2 year old and a 6 month old. I was trying to keep it all together. So far, so good. Was I there long enough to start talking much about
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This is often a question a lot of working moms get – how do we manage it all? There are definitely articles that say “working women can have it all.” I’ve been at this for a few years, however, and I still haven’t figured that out yet. So my answer is that “I don’t have
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Why is it that associates carry so much of the weight on cases, yet still feel like the partners don’t get them? In this post, I’m going to list a few things associates wish partners would know. If you have any you’d like to add, please let me know! We are happy to work on
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In corporate America, we (women especially) are told not to say “sorry.” It could make us look weak, they say. I like the principle and agree that women especially apologize too often for things they didn’t even do wrong. As a result of all the talk about this subject, I definitely always have a internal
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