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Leadership in the Law: Bring All Your Values to the Table

By Debra Forman
April 29, 2013

How do you gauge your success? If you are similar to many lawyers, you do so by your monetary value: your billable rate, how much you billed and the amount you realized and collected. Your personal worth may seem to be tied to your monthly draw. Why? Monetary value is easily defined and clearly quantifiable. But you have many more attributes that also hold value and they can play pivotal roles in your success. While some of these values may be more subjective and less easy to identify or quantify than monetary value, when you bring all of these values to the table, everyone will benefit. But before exploring these other values, let us first look at your success solely through the lens of monetary value.

Monetary Value

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