What is your leadership style? Are you authoritative, bureaucratic, or innovative? Many of us have never thought about it. If we have, we say we are only one style and forget the rest. But in reality, your leadership style can change depending on the circumstances you are in. For example, being a rule following bureaucrat […]
Without Toastmasters, I would not be the trial lawyer that I am today. Toastmasters International helps people become better public speakers. The organization also offers a very effective leadership training program. Ralph Smedley started Toastmasters in 1924 in the basement of a California YMCA. I am a second generation Toastmaster and have been involved in a […]
One of the first shockers of leaving a large firm is the realization that you are now responsible for your own Continuing Legal Education (CLE). In the firm, they either provided their own CLE’s, or made it clear the expectations of which CLE’s you would attend. Now that you are on your own, you get […]
