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ADHD Lawyers and Their Superpowers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
How to Handle Stress While Practicing Law
Every lawyer is stressed out—at one time or another, or, more often than not. The American Institute of Stress says the top four causes of stress are: workload, people issues, work/life balance and job security. Add to that the typical stresses in a lawyer’s life:...
3 Sure-Fire Strategies to be a Successful Lawyer with ADHD
Were you diagnosed with ADHD/ADD in school? Well, guess what? You probably still have ADHD/ADD, which can impact your success in the workplace. Experts estimate that about 3-5% of all students have ADHD and that anywhere from 30 to 70 percent of children diagnosed...