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"A Friday Coaching Session with Cordell: What Community Service Activity"

This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "A young associate asked:

Which extracurricular / community activities would be the most beneficial in my overall client development and how such activities can lead to client development (specific examples and/or stories would be great)?

Do something that you are passionate about so that you are motivated to participate and stick with it long enough that you ascend to a position of leadership within the organization.  When I was a young lawyer I was told I had to be in Rotary. I hated every Thursday night when I had to go to the weekly dinner meeting. I also hated the bingo fund raising project in part because most bingo players smoked. So get involved in a community service activity for which you are passionate..."

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Source: Law Consulting Blog, 4 June 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).