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Making Rain - Episode 39: Regret, and then slow fix

In this month's Making Rain, executive coach Debra Forman will provide you with effective tools you can apply when a setback or crisis prevents you from moving forward. You will see it takes a relatively simple two-step process to progress: regret, followed by a slow fix.

Making Rain - Episode 38: Champion, not mentor

In this month's episode of Making Rain, executive coach Debra Forman challenges you to commit even more to your colleagues by becoming a law firm champion.

Making Rain - Episode 37: Lead by example

In this month's episode, executive coach Debra Forman offers project management insights that demonstrate how lawyers can lead by example and teach juniors to focus on their client deliverables.

Making Rain - Episode 36 – Social media presence

Executive coach Debra Forman offers up more insights and tips on how to successfully use social media networks for business development.

Making Rain – Episode 35: New Year's Resolutions

As is customary with our January episodes of Making Rain, executive coach Debra Forman discusses the golden opportunity to commit to resolutions and strategies for taking your practice and business development initiatives to more satisfying levels.

Making Rain Episode 34 - Year-end closures

As this is the last episode of 2012, it is fitting that executive coach Debra Forman focuses everyone's attention on year-end closures.

Making Rain - Episode 33 - Having skin in the game

In this month’s Making Rain, executive coach Debra Forman delves into some probing questions that revolve around lawyers’ practice management and client development practices.

Making Rain — Episode 32 — Remove your mask

With Halloween just days away, executive coach Debra Forman explores a common block to effectiveness: hiding your true self behind an inauthentic and, too frequently, convenient mask.

Making Rain - Episode 31 - It takes two to communicate

Last month's episode discussed the importance of listening and hearing. As it takes two to communicate, this month, executive coach Debra Forman looks at the speaker's side of the interaction: getting your message out clearly so the listener will focus and act on your words.

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Law Practice Management Roundtable Video 4 - Articling

In the final of four videos from Canadian Lawyer's roundtable series law firm management, moderated by editorial director Gail J. Cohen and sponsored by the Phoenix Legal Group, our panel of lawyer and non-lawyer management gurus examine the growing articling crisis. This hot topic is on the minds of many law students and continues to be a vexing issue for the profession.

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