Ten Tips for a Successful Transition from Law School to Law Practice

The ABA's Business Law Section presents: Miriam R. Albert, Ten Tips for a Successful Transition from Law School to Law Practice, Business Law Today, June 20, 2011. You'll want to read the commentary, of course, but the tips are:

1. Be a Good Listener
2. Be an Active Participant in Your Career
3. Understand the Time Value of Money
4. Understand the Money Value of Time
5. Don't Try to be the Smartest Person in Every Room
6. Comport Yourself in a Professional Manner
7. Write More and Write Less
8. Treat Every E-Mail as if It will be in the New York Times
9. When You're Done, You're Done