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Roger Royse of Haynes and Boone: “Exposure”

Exposure. It does little good to be a Top Lawyer if nobody knows about it. This can happen organically because word of good legal work will get around and will beget more legal work. Whether it happens by accident or design, Top Lawyers are known. The legal field is known to be extremely competitive. Lawyers are…

Randy Zelin of Cornell University Law School: “Be empathetic”

Be empathetic. Put yourself in the client’s shoes. Have you ever been a client? Wouldn’t you want your call returned; your matter attended to? Wouldn’t you want to understand what’s happening in advance of it happening? Wouldn’t you want to feel cared for and secure? The legal field is known to be extremely competitive. Lawyers are…