Many of the challenges faced by the lawyers I work with comeback to one thing: time/project management.

In life outside work, what feeling fills the space when the experience you have is not what you imagined?

Networking, whether for career purposes or for business development, has to be about so much more than that a well-rehearsed 30 second “pitch.”

Mondays. We all hate ’em—with good reason. Our weekends are ours, a time for family, friends, fun (and of course some chores).

Who would you be more likely to have questions for or want to strike up a conversation with? Who are you more likely to remember? The project finance partner? Or the bridge builder?

Old habits are hard to break and new ones hard to learn—even when the new habit is better, when you want to change. Change takes time no matter how much you want it. Start small. Build slowly. Practice every day.

The concept of branding may seem like it is overdone but in order to succeed as an attorney, you must be able to describe what you do, for whom, and how you do it in a compelling and concise manner.

While people may be confident that they can tell you who has or doesn’t have executive presence, many struggle to define it clearly.

In practice, if you want to be better at your job, you owe it to yourself to be accountable to yourself for the skills and experience you develop. And to get better, you need feedback. Everyone does.

Now that associate retention has firmly established itself again as a management issue at many law firms, upward review programs are not surprisingly back on the agenda.

Despite recent headlines suggesting that the days of conventional performance evaluations are numbered, it seems that performance reviews are alive and well, at least in the legal industry. And, it’s that time of year.

If you want to manage time, start by taking responsibility for your communications and being clear whenever you assign or take on a new task or project.