Huffington Post Features Best Friends at the Bar

The Huffington Post featured Best Friends at the Bar in its on-line coverage yesterday.  It is wonderful to get this kind of exposure and to have Best Friends at the Bar recognized as the valuable resource it is.   As you probably know, Huffington Post WOMEN is a great font of information for women in a variety of professions and careers, and I am very pleased to have Best Friends at the Bar as a part of that information network and to have the opportunity to add information specific to young women lawyers.

The article, “Advice for Women Lawyers,” includes helpful information for women lawyers on how to succeed in practice and survive in a male-dominated profession.  It is a “must read” for all women law students and young women lawyers, and it also is very helpful to young women considering careers in the law.  For the full November 19, 2012 article, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-smith-blakely/women-lawyers_b_2155906.html.

Here are some article highlights to get you started:

*Embrace the novelty of being a woman lawyer in a field full of men but do it right.

*Recognize that male lawyers and female lawyers think and interact differently.  This is very important in a high-stakes business like law practice.

*Support other women lawyers…………a perennial theme of Best Friends at the Bar.

*Create a life balance that includes paying attention to personal needs and health—even while being an excellent lawyer.

*Develop your own definition of success in the law.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.  Do yourself a favor and read the full article.  As I often tell you, you will be glad that you did!

Here’s an idea:  Read it at Grandma’s on Thanksgiving Day when the family conversation is getting to be a little much for you.  How many times can you explain the work you do, and who understands the law of cyber security anyway?  Is your career plan really open for discussion by ALL the family?  AND, your love life………..wasn’t that supposed to be off limits….always?

Here I am to save you.  Retire to another room, and call up the Huffington Post article.  If you need more research material, go to my web site at www.bestfriendsatthebar.com and click on the Blog.  It will provide an archive of past blogs, and I am willing to bet that you may have missed a few along the way.   They are good reading—and they do not require an awkward “conversation”!

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