This is a program for first year lawyers with ideas on how to start right for career success.

1. Starting Right for
Career Success
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2. Law School Teaches
Think like a
lawyer
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3. Law School Does NOT Teach
How to Practice Law
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4. Law School Does NOT Teach
Think like a
client
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5. Law School Does NOT Teach
Law Firm Business
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6. Law School Does NOT Teach
Get and Keep Clients
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7. Law School Does NOT Teach
Work With Senior Lawyers and Staff
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8. Law School Does NOT Teach
Prepare Real Legal Documents
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9. Law School Does NOT Teach
Present Your Position
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10. Law School Does NOT Teach
Deal Professionally With Adversaries
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11. Event / Achievement
Graduating from Successful
Law School Associate
Passing the Bar Successful
Lawyer
First Year
Associate
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12. Successful Associates
What’s Their Secret?
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13. Successful Lawyers
Take responsibility for career
Know what they want
Use their time wisely
Work each day to become a better
lawyer
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14. Successful Lawyers
Understand their client’s needs
Develop relationships
Build a team
Spend quality time with their
family
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15. Successful Lawyers
Seen as
“Go To”
Lawyer
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16. AVOID
i lling
Fulf fe
Li
Successful
Career
Today’s Topic: Starting Right for Career Success
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17. You Are the Architect
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18. “When it comes
to the future, there
are three kinds of people:
those who let it happen;
those who make it happen;
and those who wonder, what happened?
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-John M. Richardson, Jr.

19. You Are the Architect
You choose what type of lawyer you are
It’s just a job Motivated by money
It’s a position Motivated by getting credit
It’s a profession Motivated by development
and interesting work
It’s a calling Motivated by a sense of
purpose and service
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20. Four Areas of Life
1) Physical/Economic
2) Mental
3) Emotional
4) Spiritual
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21. FULFILLMENT
FAILURE SUCCESS
DISAPPOINTMENT
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22. Weekly
PLAN
Goals
2006 PLAN
2010 Plan
Roles
Core Values
How – Steps to Achieve
Why Important
What – Major Definite Purpose
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23. As was once asked of Albert Einstein:
“If you could ask God one question,
what would it be?” He first replied that
he would ask God how the universe
began. After reflection he said he
would ask God why the universe
began, because then he would know
the meaning of his own life.
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24. Vision
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25. Core Values
You don’t create, you discover
and gain deep understanding
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26. Roles
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27. Why Have A Plan?
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28. Execute
“Any system or blueprint for
success is better than none at all.
Think on paper.”
Have you written down your goals?
If not, when?
Brian Tracy
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29. Execute
Suppose I spend
2,500 hours this year
on my career
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30. Execute
How You Spend Your Time Weekly
40 56
Sleep
Non-Billable
Free
10 Billable
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How you spend your How you spend non-
free time determines billable time will determine
the quality of your life the quality of your career
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31. Execute
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32. Goals
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33. Development Goals
Brainstorming
Asking Why
Listing Steps to
Achieve
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34. What can we learn about getting
better from Tiger Woods?
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35. Deliberate Practice
Networking
Elevator Speech/Questions
Identifying Issues Impacting Clients
Writing Articles Designed to Get Hired
Public Speaking
Questions for Clients and Potential Clients
Active Listening
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36. Career Success and satisfaction does not
come from focusing on success, happiness or
money. Instead it comes from focusing on your
passion, developing your talent and identifying
the needs of those you want to serve.
- Cordell M. Parvin
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38. Starting Right for
Career Success
Cordell M. Parvin
http://www.cordellparvin.com
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