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			The Power of Gratitude: Getting and Keeping a Job by Being Thankful By Harrison Barnes Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. — Wallace Wattles + read more Date: 01-22-2007 Current rating: 10

			Going Over to the Business Side of the Fence By Harrison Barnes Several years ago, I was at a seminar and a brilliant lawyer introduced himself to the group. The lawyer had recently retired; however, he had spent the better part of his career working for a major motion picture studio. He was a Harvard Law School graduate and one of the most relaxed and carefree attorneys I had ever met. He lived in Malibu, CA, on a street where I estimate the houses ran somewhere around $5 million and up. He was so ''unlawyerlike'' that I approached him and asked him what sort of law he practiced. I had never met an attorney like him. + read more Date: 12-04-2006 Current rating: 9.8

			The Benefits of Avoiding the Large Law Firm By Harrison Barnes As I started contemplating this topic, a small smile broke across my face. I thought to myself, ''This article will fall on deaf ears.'' + read more Date: 11-27-2006 Current rating: 10

			What Is the Best Way to Develop Business? By Harrison Barnes When people are in law school, and even during their first few years out of law school, they come to believe that the most important components of a successful law firm career include 1) billing lots of hours (i.e., working hard) and 2) doing quality work. Very rapidly, however, young lawyers learn that generating business for their firms is just as important as doing first-rate work. + read more Date: 11-20-2006 Current rating: 10

			How Should I Act at Law Firm Functions? (Part II) By Harrison Barnes You Can Choose to Accomplish Nothing at a Law Firm Social Function. This statement is more complex than it may first appear. By deciding to accomplish nothing, you can actually accomplish much more than you would have had you set out to accomplish something. + read more Date: 11-13-2006

			How Should I Act at Law Firm Functions? (Part I) By Harrison Barnes Once a law firm or other legal employment organization hires you or becomes interested in hiring you, there is a very good chance you will be asked to attend a social function. This social function might be a dinner at an important (or not so important) partner's house, a firm party, an outingâ��you name it. There are many different types of functions you may be asked to attend. + read more Date: 11-06-2006

			Is it Bad to Be Part of or Join a Law Firm with High Turnover? By Harrison Barnes ''This is the second part of a two-part series. To read the first part, visit the LawCrossing archives now! + read more Date: 10-30-2006 Current rating: 9

			Is it Bad to Be Part of or Join a Law Firm with High Turnover? By Harrison Barnes Law firms are organizations, and organizations go through changes-including turnover. In order to understand the sort of turnover a law firm may go through and whether it is something you should view as a negative or positive, it is useful to think of many of the challenges of running a law firm and keeping it competitive in the marketplace. The main question you need to ask yourself when considering turnover within a law firm is whether the turnover is something that is likely to push the law firm forward in the market...or a sign that the law firm is retreating in the market or unable to compete. + read more Date: 10-23-2006 Current rating: 3.4

			What do I need to know if I'm considering relocating my career? By Harrison Barnes, Esq. There is nothing more exciting than leaving one area of the country and going to a new area to start a new career and life. One of the advantages of having chosen a career in the fluid legal industry is that you do have the option of living in other parts of the United States or even the world. We have moved attorneys from one city to another and from one continent to another. Indeed, as an attorney-search firm that places attorneys throughout the United States and the world, we believe that we have made a positive difference in the quality of many lives through our relocation efforts. For excellent attorneys, we are the relocation experts. + read more Date: 10-16-2006 Current rating: 6

			If My Boss Gets Mad at Me or I Get a Poor Review, Does This Mean I Should Look for a New Job? By Harrison Barnes Fortunate are the attorneys or law students who find themselves in situations where their bosses are demanding of them. I say this in all seriousness and for several reasons I will outline over the course of this article. At the outset, I want to caution you that this article is not for the faint of heart; this article is for individuals who take their careers and lives seriously. You are the one who has chosen to be an attorney and put individuals' and companies' futures on the line based on the quality of your skills. So it is time you faced some cold, hard truths. + read more Date: 10-09-2006 Current rating: 7.9

			What is the appropriate way to dress for an interview? By Harrison Barnes I have thought a lot about this question over the years, and I really believe I have the answer. The answer is simple: ''Dress as you want to be seen.'' While this may seem overly simplistic, I believe that with some further elaboration, my meaning will become clearer. + read more Date: 10-03-2006 Current rating: 8.9

	What is the best way to turn down an offer? By Harrison Barnes Not too long ago, I was forwarded the following email, which probably circulated among tens of thousands of attorneys. I will quote it in full below, since it is so instructive: + read more Date: 09-25-2006 Current rating: 8.6

	How much do hot practice areas vary from state to state? By Harrison Barnes Hot practice areas typically differ quite dramatically from state to state. However, there are consistencies which are almost always present in most geographical areas. These consistencies are generally applicable across most time periods, in most geographic areas. While this is the sort of question I would love to ''write a book about,'' for purposes of brevity I will highlight only one or two areas that are usually very busy in major geographic areas. + read more Date: 09-18-2006 Current rating: 8.5

	What qualities/characteristics should I look for in a recruiting company? By Harrison Barnes, CEO, BCG Attorney Search Being a good legal recruiter is very difficult work. If you take the average graduating class at a law school of say 500 people, I would estimate that 70 percent of the graduates could be outstanding lawyers if they apply themselves. Conversely, I would estimate that 99 percent of the people who graduate from law school could not be good legal recruiters (i.e., 1 percent or 5 of the 500 people could potentially be good legal recruiters). + read more Date: 09-11-2006 Current rating: 4

	How do I know when it's time to use a recruiter for my next job or if I should search on my own? By Harrison Barnes, CEO, BCG Attorney Search Working with a legal recruiter is the smartest decision a good attorney can make. Legal recruiters typically operate in the upper echelon of the legal profession; and for people who are suited for their services, legal recruiters are the absolute best career resources. Legal recruiters will identify the best opportunities for you, counsel you on your move, provide you inside information about the various employers you are investigating, draw out your strengths and present them to employers in a convincing way, provide a valuable prescreening function for the employers, and, just by virtue of representing you, provide you with a good entrée to the employers. In fact, many of the largest and most selective law firms rarely look at candidates unless they come from a preferred legal recruiter. For example, numerous candidates I have represented at BCG Attorney Search may not have even received responses when they approached firms on their own before coming to our firm. A good legal recruiter can make that much of a difference. + read more Date: 09-04-2006 Current rating: 3.5

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