Listen here: Why Easy to Brief Lawyers Stand Out in BigLaw
Being easy to brief is one of the ways a lawyer is brought into more conversations and becomes a more trusted advisor. But it doesn’t require you to be the attorney who walks into a meeting knowing everything. Instead, it’s about knowing enough to follow the conversation, identify what matters, ask the right question when it needs to be asked, and help to meet the need the client is really identifying. But the way to do that may require you to put aside the habits and tendencies that many attorneys mistakenly think will help them.