Minimum to Memorable | Your Brand is your BATNA
How a personal brand is your BATNA, why LinkedIn beats Any Negotiation Tactic and how GenAI is helping you with it. Want to negotiate better fees? Be considered for more opportunities? Move up the …
Career Development
These “soft skills” are the hardest thing you’ll ever have to learn
I was recently invited to speak at a GC roundtable about what makes or breaks a deal or dispute. It was an impressive circle. Senior in-house counsel who have navigated dozens, if not hundreds of …
Finding Negotiation Skills Training For Corporations: Live Training vs Pre-recorded Online Courses
“Live training or online course?” “Large or small scale?” When it comes to finding the right corporate training courses for your organization, the options and considerations can be overwhelming. This is more so for negotiation …
How Do I Become a Negotiation Specialist?
Negotiation is a necessary skill in different fields of life, including interpersonal relations and business. Becoming a negotiation specialist allows one to make decisions more effectively and easily through difficult circumstances. Now comes the question, …
How to win a top mentor to help boost your career
Achieving success in professional life is like in sports: you’ve got to play with a stronger partner to become stronger yourself. The benefits are obvious: you get concrete strategies that have already worked, you move …
Career Q&A with Johannes Willheim, Partner, Global Disputes, Jones Day
On the 5th day of the International Dispute Professional Academy Vienna participants had the chance to sit down with Johannes Willheim, Partner at the Global Disputes Team of Jones Day, and ask him anything on …
Career Advice from Jessica Simpson – “You need nothing but your skills”
Whatever you might remember Jessica Simpson for, she is a go-getter. Starting out a singer, she made her mark as a power-woman and entrepreneur, taking her brand Jessica Simpson Collection to the first celebrity-owned …
How Mel Gibson taught me to think and succeed like Braveheart
Movies are not a big part of my life. Except for the few that have changed it. Braveheart is one of those and a few weeks ago it took on a whole new meaning when …
Louis Litt is an amazing lawyer, but what makes Harvey Specter, Harvey Specter?
by Pratik Bakshi Many young lawyers are fans of the TV Series ‘Suits’. But this is also a must-read for all other law students and young lawyers who wish to know how to stand out …
How cultural “Power Distance” might be holding you back from becoming an outstanding lawyer
As someone who spends a good 1/3 of her year in a different culture from her own, I have always enjoyed learning from others and bringing what I can to them. In the last few …
