Learn how you can better understand how your firm tracks profitability so you can take control of the numbers that impact your comp, bonus, and long-term prospects.

Sheri Palomaki joins the podcast to share how strategic planning can help lawyers better develop, design, and execute on their goals for long-term success and sustainability.

Don’t let limited firm business development and marketing resources or the wrong ways of working to access and leverage those teams limit your ability to grow your practice and profile.

Make sure you really understand what you’re hearing when you get pushback about the timing for your partnership path

Learn from Partner Leigh Riley how Foley & Lardner’s innovative and unique training and development program helps meet the need for continuing learning and growth for partners at all stages of their careers.

Find ways to drive your profile and brand externally - beyond traditional opportunities that are less available to you.

Even when you’re doing everything right and working hard to develop business, there are still some factors that are hard to control.

Even when you’re doing everything right and working hard to develop business, there are still some factors that are hard to control.

Get smart about how to confront people that try to claim your work as their own, and be ready to defend your contributions and achievements.

Don’t let your communication style hold you back from developing better ways to engage with your clients and colleagues in clear and practical ways.

Don’t leave another conference wondering whether it was worth the time, money and disruption to your client work. Learn how to strategically approach these opportunities - before, during, and after the event - so that you can better maximize them to develop business and relationships.

How can BigLaw better assist its lawyers and business professionals who are trying to balance work demands and responsibilities as adult caregivers for parents, adult dependents and other family members? Thomas Adrian of Sheppard Mullin shares the firm’s innovative approach to a comprehensive benefit created in partnership with Homethrive.

Finding out WHEN you will make partner is critical, so learn how to have the conversations and ask the questions you need to resolve that issue.

For lawyers early in their BigLaw careers, who want to move from meeting the firm’s minimum expectations to being seen as strategic and of higher value, this episode breaks down how to show up and demonstrate your ability to do that.

If you’re thinking about moving from a solo or smaller firm to join the partnership in a BigLaw firm, you are looking at a major change in how you practice law. Get ready for that by asking the questions that will help you better prepare for that pivot.

Keith Maziarek rejoins the podcast to share how GenAI is about more than just the ways in which firms are adopting new technological tools - everything from how data analytics expertise will be as necessary as top legal skills, to how compensate both legal and business professionals, and the ability to value and price AI-assisted work will become critical for firm leaders.

Being able to show how you are different from others in your field of expertise is critically important - so learn how to clarify your messaging, describe the value that you offer, and better connect with what your clients actually care about.

It’s one of the most important decisions you will make in your legal career - so give some serious thought to the factors that should shape how you determine the areas in which you want to practice.

If advocating for yourself in your firm feels like jumping into a workplace sandbox with uneven power dynamics and high stakes consequences, it’s time to rethink how you position yourself for that engagement.

Don’t let the lack of billing credit stop you from building the case for why you have the kind of client relationships and drive the kind of work that is adding value for you and your firm.