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The Interview
Stop Telling People You’re a Lawyer. No One Cares (Trust Us)
The title may say lawyer. The memorable answer explains the problem you solve.
Firm Life
How much are you supposed to take?
The pressure inside law firms is real. So are the choices attorneys make to survive, advance and keep hold of themselves.
Across the profession
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Going Solo
The case for becoming visible before you feel ready
Excellent work does not automatically become a reputation. Attorneys have to learn how to make their judgment legible.
“The work changes when you stop waiting for someone else to tell your story.”
Conversations with attorneys building careers on their own terms.
Ideas for the climb
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Practice Building
Before you open your own firm, work inside someone else’s
The operational education a business plan cannot give you.
Leadership
When adversity becomes the strategy
What happens when a firm stops reacting privately and becomes the public voice its market needs.
Career
The quiet rules no one explains when you enter a law firm
How young attorneys learn the culture, protect their confidence and decide what is worth enduring.
Market Moves
Your first 90 days of professional authority
A practical rhythm for attorneys who want their ideas to travel farther than their immediate network.
Counsel Engine Markets
The profession is national. Careers are local.
Reporting on the attorneys, firms and institutions shaping eight legal communities.
AtlantaNational ambition, Black professional power and a deep bench of legal talent.Central FloridaOrlando and Tampa attorneys navigating one of the country’s fastest-growing regions.CharlotteThe lawyers building influence inside a fast-changing business capital.ChicagoBig-firm careers, independent practices and the institutions between them.D.C. + BaltimoreOne connected legal corridor spanning government, policy and enterprise.DetroitLegacy institutions, emerging firms and the attorneys reshaping the city.HoustonEnergy, growth and a legal market with its own definition of scale.MemphisA market where relationships, civic leadership and legal work remain intertwined.
The launching issue
A field guide to the part of legal life no one puts in the handbook.
The Climb brings together candid stories about the rules of firm life, finding a public voice and knowing when it is time to build something of your own.
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