Jante Law (Or 10 Rules For Dealing With People)

by Keith Lee | Professional Development

  I had ended up on Wikipedia through a some link of some story that I was reading a couple days ago. Surfing, reading, clicking. I couldn’t even tell you what the original story I was reading. But I ended up on Janteloven, or Jante Law. Jante Law is: A pattern...

Combat Distraction

by Keith Lee | Professional Development

Via Learning Fundamentals

Becoming A Good Lawyer Requires Failure

by Keith Lee | Rakofsky

So, as I’m sure most of you probably already know, Joseph Rakofsky has once again emerged from the shadows to test the bounds of reason, good sense and the law by filing…whatever the hell this is. If you’re not familiar with Jo-Jo, you can read my...

There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be a Lawyer

by Keith Lee | Professional Development

Roughly one year ago, I put up a post entitled Georgetown Law Dean, Millennials and Unrealistic Expectations at the ABA, that touched on the downward trends in the legal job market. (I also called a double-dip recession – holla) In the last post on Wal-Mart Efficiency...

Not Going Through the Motions

by Keith Lee | Professional Development

The baby was crying again. It’s 5:15 AM this morning or 2 hours sitting on the tarmac in Boston or rushing through LaGuardia or flying over West Virginia or pulling into the driveway at home at 12:30 am. Mixed up schedules, cancelled flights, weather delays...

Address Incongruities

by Keith Lee | Professional Development

There is often a gap between the way things function and the way things ought to function. Law firms are bastions of doing things “the way they’ve always been done.”  Change is often not welcome within the legal field. See the continuous stream of...