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Tips on career, excellence and work/life balance for legal secretaries, served up with a dash of humor and the occasional gentle rant.

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Cool link roundup #3

Posted on March 28, 2008
The Pennsylvania Family Law Blog features a guest post by the author’s secretary, in which she gives her boss’s clients some friendly and useful advice. Above the Law’s law firm job... .

Give the boss a PocketMod

Posted on March 26, 2008
PocketMod bills itself as “the free, recyclable personal organizer,” and I can think of no better description. It’s a Web template and folding/cutting guide that lets you turn a... .

Does sometimes saying ?no? to overtime endanger your job?

Posted on March 26, 2008
The Wall Street Journal’s “The Juggle” blog features a thought-provoking piece on saying no to overtime. One of the WSJ’s law blog readers shared an anecdote of how, as a... .

Career lessons from Eliott Spitzer?s call girl, Ashley Dupre

Posted on March 24, 2008
No, it’s not a guest post! (Not that there would be anything wrong with that.) The Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk, features an entertaining and yet oddly wise post on the career lessons we... .

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Bad lawyer: Adam Reposa

Posted on March 24, 2008
Above the Law reports on Adam Reposa, an Austin lawyer who was recently held in contempt of court because he “made a simulated masturbatory gesture with his hand while making eye contact with... .

Good legal secretary: Cheryl Gilkes

Posted on March 24, 2008
Wisconsin legal secretary Cheryl Gilkes shovels manure — although not necessarily in the course of her job at Flottmeyer, Burgos, Ryan & Sayner. Cheryl and her 13-year-old daughter... .

Auto-dialers: No second chances

Posted on March 24, 2008
We all get them: Auto-dialed calls from telemarketers. You pick up the phone, answer. The caller doesn’t speak right away. All you hear is what sounds suspiciously like call-center background... .

Cool link roundup #2

Posted on March 21, 2008
Personal finance blog Wise Bread lightheartedly compares the job search to a romantic [mis]adventure. Law firms are generally among the more secure places to work. And did I say generally?... .

Thelen Reid?s lopsided layoffs

Posted on March 20, 2008
According to Above the Law, the latest round of law firm layoffs took place today at Thelen Reid, where 85 out of 111 casualties are staff rather than lawyers. I was bemused enough that Thelen is... .

Set your workday to music

Posted on March 19, 2008
Few things make the workday go by faster than your favorite tunes. Playing them at work can be challenging, though: Most PCs come with the clunky Windows Media, and most firms don’t want... .

10 tips for dealing with difficult clients

Posted on March 17, 2008
Someone found me recently by putting “legal secretary dealing with difficult clients” into Google, though I haven’t yet addressed that topic — at least not in any depth. I... .

Cool link roundup #1

Posted on March 12, 2008
Among the interesting things I’ve seen on the Web recently: Legal Assistant Today has released its paralegal salary outlook. They used data from Robert Half Legal’s annual survey; I... .

Mr. Phosita makes a sandwich

Posted on March 12, 2008
When you go to work for litigators, you learn a whole new type of logic. If you’ve been in litigation for a year or two, then you know that it’s a little different way of looking at the... .

Get credit for your good work

Posted on March 10, 2008
Legal secretaries don’t always get credit where it’s due. Lawyers get so accustomed to our good work on a day-to-day basis that they forget what life would be like without us. A certain... .

Important Update(s)

Posted on March 08, 2008
To state the obvious, LRH is undergoing a bit of an overhaul. My goal is to have it done or mostly done by Monday morning. Pardon my sawdust! Important: If you’re subscribed to my RSS feed, you... [...]

Marketing for legal secretaries

Posted on March 03, 2008
Todd Olivas has posted a condensed version of a speech he recently gave to the Orange County chapter of NALS. Todd brings the unique perspective of a marketing professional to the legal secretary domain, and guess what? It works! His tips are gold. My favorites: Relationships are the key...

Know when to say ?Whatever!?

Posted on February 27, 2008
Lawyers are always right. You can make respectful suggestions. You can diffidently point out ways of doing something better. But you have to know when to let it go and zip your lips. When it comes to secretaries who speak up, there are basically two types of lawyer: First, there are the ones who appreciate your [...

Ledge haiku

Posted on February 25, 2008
Your crap on my ledge. I can scarce see over it. The pile is so tall.

Take care of your heart

Posted on February 25, 2008
Tragedy struck at Saul Ewing’s Baltimore office last month, when legal secretary Susan McGuire suffered a fatal heart attack. The Baltimore Sun reports: McGuire, a 45-year-old legal secretary, suffered a fatal heart attack at her workplace, just as she was heading to the doctor’s office last month...

Drumroll, please!

Posted on February 22, 2008
We have a winner for the copy of 100 Words Per Minute: Tales from Behind Law Office Doors. My own personal independent prize distribution firm has selected a winner using a double-secret, proprietary sweepstakes technology. (Well, okay, I got MFN to pick the name from a bowl, ’cause, yanno, my cats were both busy...

Win a copy of 100 Words Per Minute

Posted on February 18, 2008
Lawyer’s Right Hand is giving away a copy of 100 Words Per Minute: Tales from Behind Law Office Doors! To enter for the drawing, send an e-mail to my address — top of the lefthand sidebar — and include “100 Words” in the subject line...

Haiku: Clarification

Posted on February 18, 2008
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Legal assistant, Not personal assistant. Shall I ?splain again?

A disturbing trend in biglaw

Posted on February 13, 2008
At least one of the country’s biggest law firms has drastically changed a key personnel policy: When a secretary-lawyer relationship isn’t working, the option of reassignment within the firm is off the table. The secretary is simply fired! Given that the custom of reassigning a good secretary who doesn’t click with her boss is one [...

Tales from Behind Law Office Doors

Posted on February 11, 2008
I’ve discovered the neatest little book. Published in 2006, 100 Words per Minute: Tales from Behind Law Office Doors is a kind of Chicken Soup for the Legal Secretary’s Soul, but, thank dog, the self-help is blessedly subtle, and there’s not a shred of sappiness in sight...

Haiku: Not My Job

Posted on February 11, 2008
Disney World, school stuff, Soccer, your dentist, golf clubs. Not my job, this fluff!

MS Word: Don?t ?clean up? your tables. Style them!

Posted on February 05, 2008
The most frequent “reason” I hear for manually typing tables of contents and authorities in a complex Word document is that the Word-generated tables must always be “cleaned up.” And just what is this “cleanup,” I ask? It turns out the only problem is that people don’t like Word’s default formatting of tables...

Hitting the job market in the new year? Check here first.

Posted on February 04, 2008
I’ve just added a terrific resource to the Careerism links: Jobhunt.org. It’s a treasure trove of news and articles on the job-hunting front, many of them must-reads if you’re back on the market after a few years in one place. Start with this piece on controlling what prospective employers see when they plug your name [...

A Texas deposition

Posted on January 28, 2008
It’s Monday. The holidays are over. And for most of us, the next three-day weekend is four months away. That was reason enough to have a good, old-fashioned belly laugh. All the better that it’s at the expense of lawyers!

Lawyer running behind? Help is on the way.

Posted on January 25, 2008
Photo courtesy of Stuff on My Cat. (The caption, unfortunately, is my own fault.)

Lunch at your desk without getting pestered

Posted on January 24, 2008
A Legality member recently discovered how to deter her lawyers and coworkers from bothering her when she’s lunching at her desk. Few law offices — even the biggies like mine — offer a quiet, comfortable place to eat a brown-bag lunch...

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