Raising Your Profile & Making the Right Impression in Challenging Times
The Houston Bar Association will host its next Gender Fairness Networking Luncheon on January 20, 2010 from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Central Time at Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, 600 Travis St., Suite 3400, Houston, TX 77002. The topic is “Raising Your Profile & Making the Right Impression in Challenging Times.” Speakers will be Debra L. Bruce, lawyer-coach; Suzanne Chauvin, partner at Strong, Pipkin, Bissell & Ledyard, LLP; and Elaine Williams, President of the legal recruiting firm, MS Legal.
Lunch will be provided courtesy of Strong, Pipkin, Bissell & Ledyard and courtesy of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. This program proved to be popular, so registrations filled up by January 15, 2010.
Post Date: January 18, 2010
Does Social Media Have a Place in Your ADR Practice?
Debra Bruce spoke on January 12, 2010 to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Houston Bar Association about social media ethics in an ADR practice. Eileen Hohlt, a mediator and bankruptcy attorney at McDaniel Hohlt P.C., coordinated the program. She reported in an email to Debra: ”Your presentation today was great. I’ve received a lot of good feedback.”
A lawyer commented at the end of the program, “Your talk was very informative. I’ve been against this social media stuff, but now I see that I need to learn about it.”
Post Date: January 18, 2010
Social Media Marketing: Are LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter effective AND worth your time?
Debra will be a featured presenter today, January 7, 2010 at 11:30 am Central Time, in a webinar for the Women Lawyers Alliance. The topic is: Social Media Marketing: Are LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter effective AND worth your time?
The one-hour webinar will address ethical and practical issues, as well as benefits, for lawyers using social media. It is free to WLA members and $35.00 for non-members. For more information or to register, go to http://www.wlalliance.org/events.php
Post Date: January 7, 2010
Keeping Those New Year’s Resolutions
How long do your New Year’s Resolutions usually last? If they rarely make it through January, you may be getting tripped up by some common snags that lawyers encounter. Do you set the bar unrealistically high or lack a way to measure interim progress? If so, you set yourself up for discouragement. On the other hand, perhaps the time frame, or the goal itself, is too fuzzy.
The benefits of achieving your goal may not be tangible enough to keep you motivated. You may need an accountability partner or someone to buoy you up when it gets tough. Perhaps you need to think about what has helped you succeed in the past, or how to make the process more fun. Maybe this resolution is just a “should,” rather than what you really care about. Maybe you need more meaningful consequences for the outcome, whether failure or success.
To improve the likelihood of keeping your resolutions, make sure you know: (1) why you really want to do this, (2) how to measure interim progress, (3) the specifics, including the deadline, for what constitutes success, (4) the resources available to help you, and (5) the reward for your triumph.
For more in-depth tips on how to keep those resolutions, read Secrets to Actually Accomplishing Your Goals in this blog.
Post Date: January 4, 2010