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This article is the second of two that address the ways in which education, training, and experience in providing health services often creates a cognitive box from which practitioners must extricate themselves if they wish to perform forensic services.

Lawyers who are looking to advance their careers and who want to build business should not underestimate the power of using social media to raise their visibility.

If you are not perceived the way you want to be perceived and are not reaching the goals you have set out to meet, you want to re-evaluate your values and determine if your personal brand needs to be tweaked, revamped or potentially overhauled.

Every law firm needs to make a strong impression to increase its name awareness, protect and build market share and instill loyalty in its client base. What is your promise to clients?

While women lawyers must work a bit smarter and harder than their male counterparts, the basics of business development apply to all. If you fail to plan, you are, in effect, planning to fail.

Despite amendments to statute and court rule, it remains all too common for the court to see the renamed "Attorney for the Child" as a purported "impartial" and "independent" sounding board whom the court will hear first at any conference.

Just six in 10 of the 4,967 students who graduated last year from New York state's 15 law schools were able to find full-time, permanent employment requiring bar passage by Feb. 15, according to recently released statistics from the American Bar Association.

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, with fewer seats at the table, a successful candidate for equity partnership must demonstrate a full complement of personal and professional skills and experience.