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ADHD and Attorney Wellness

by admin | Apr 3, 2021

Unmanaged ADHD can lead to depression, anxiety and substance abuse. By educating the profession about ADHD and de-stigmatizing it, we can improve attorney wellness.

In honor of Black History Month, I offer this memory of one of my first mentors in the legal profession, Akim Gursel, an African American attorney, and three important things I learned from him about mentoring. In part two, I will discuss some lessons he taught me...

ADHD Lawyers and Their Superpowers

by admin | Feb 15, 2021

Building on your strengths is the best strategy for success for the ADHD lawyer. This blog identifies three strengths and how they can make the lawyer with ADHD shine.

3 Tips for the ADHD Lawyer Working from Home

by admin | Jun 24, 2020

Working from home presents challenges for lawyers with ADHD and some of them are harder to overcome than others. As I have said before, job selection is key for lawyers who have ADHD or ADHD-like tendencies. If they are doing something that they love--something...

How to Talk to your Parents about Coronavirus

by admin | Apr 27, 2020

You probably have all you can handle with COVID-19, working from home and social distancing—that is until your parents came on the scene. Inter-generational strife is increasing in these stressful times with parental behavior ranging from full meltdowns to...

Success

by admin | Mar 18, 2020

Five Things that Being a Successful Attorney has Taught Me About Success 1. Have your own vision of success It’s a basic concept: you have to know where you’re going in order to get there. You must have a clear idea of what success means to YOU. Think about it. ...

Answers to Three Frequently Asked Questions About Attorney Wellness

by admin | Jan 3, 2020

Let’s take a different perspective on wellness and look at it as the end result of living a life where you take care of yourself and the people around you in a wholistic healthy caring way. The first part, taking care of yourself, means eating right, getting enough...

Power of Positive Feedback

by admin | Jun 5, 2019

First time managers often have difficulty providing positive feedback to their subordinates (and former peers) because of fears that they would be perceived as “soft” or “easy,” and so they fall into a habit of only providing negative feedback. One of my supervisors...

Lessons Learned from Managing a Perfectionist

by admin | Apr 21, 2019

Imagine this: you are put in charge of a team that is charged with handling a moderately complex matter for a client on an emergency basis. It has to be right and it has to be done in 10 days. You have a great team with people with complementary skill sets and one...