Our youngest son Jake left for Poland on September 2nd to work as a JDC Entwine Global Jewish Service Corps Fellow. His yearlong assignment will be to work at the JCC in Krakow, where he will help to support Jewish life revival, care for Holocaust survivors, and feed hundreds of Ukrainian refugees daily. Jake first … Continued
For Well-being Week in Law, I want to share four well-being tips from our Make TIme for Well-being training program. To maintain our well-being, we must make time for self-care every day. Please take a moment each day to ask yourself: “What will I do to fill my tank and show care for myself today?” … Continued
Today I’m giving a talk on Why Vulnerability Is a Superpower at this year’s #EmpoweredWomen event in Chicago. Although I’ve presented hundreds of times, this talk is hard. Sharing my personal story feels very vulnerable! My main messages include: Why we need to train ourselves to associate vulnerability with opportunity How often our biggest obstacles to success … Continued
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How to Thrive as a Summer Associate 2022
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DONATE HERE! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I still remember my first Thanksgiving in the U.S. clearly: I was in first grade and my family had arrived 8 months earlier as refugees, thrown out of Poland for being Jewish. That November, I came home from school and announced that now that we lived in America, … Continued
This past week I presented to over 300 summer associates at law firms across the country. One of the participants asked a great question: “How can I have a successful and fulfilling career in Big Law?” Having studied attorneys’ careers for the past 30+ years and written a book on the topic, Your Fairy Job … Continued
I’m going to propose that we officially start 2021 on February 1st. I know how busy you’ve been since the start of this new year, but I think most of us were holding our breath until our new president was fully in place. I know I have held off our book launch because there hasn’t … Continued
I wanted to tell you a little bit about the book I’ve been writing since July. It’s aimed at 19-24 year olds, sometimes referred to as Gen Z’s, and will be available early next year. As the pandemic set in, I observed many of these kids getting short-changed on their college experience and new graduates struggling … Continued