The Careerist a lawjob.com Blog
“Women get punished for behaving the way men do," says Ellen Ostrow, a psychologist and career coach who specializes in female lawyers…
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New York
Working at a law firm is not for the faint-of-heart — it means long, stressful hours and an endless workload — but this doesn't mean a BigLaw career has to involve laboring in misery…
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The Careerist, a LawJobs.com Blog
By Vivia Chen
What year is this? 1965? Judging by what I'm hearing about how uptight senior men are about their female subordinates, I'd say we're barely out of the Mad Men era…
Here at The American Lawyer, the editorial staff is cowering like rabbits awaiting slaughter at the Guangzhou market. One by one, our colleagues are being called to the glass room. What's going on? It's time for our annual performance reviews!
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If you work from your strengths and enjoy good interactions with your colleagues every day, your odds of becoming a healthy lawyer grow dramatically. You may even add 8 years to your life…
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Ellen Ostrow, a career consultant from Silver Spring, MD, hears similar tales of woe. She says increasing numbers of established workers as well as a rising number of younger workers are saying, “Thanks, but no thanks” to the golden handcuffs of partnership…
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Dr. Ellen Ostrow, the founder of Lawyers Life Coach, LLC, an organization established primarily as a resource for women lawyers, recently wrote an article (in volume 77 of Wisconsin Lawyer) entitled, 20 Ways to Become a Leader. The practical advice contained in this article is not gender specific, as it focuses upon challenges of a human nature. In her article, Ostrow offers the following advice…
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It’s a problem no one wants to talk about, and yet it is one of the greatest barriers to the advancement of women attorneys. Carolyn Buck Luce, co-chair for Ernst & Young's Professional Women's Network in the Northeast and leader of its Global Pharmaceutical Sector calls it “the Goldilocks problem.”…
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Have you mastered the art of delegating? As a judge, you are in a position of significant responsibility and leadership. To be successful, you must accomplish work through others-law clerks, judicial secretaries, court clerks-rather than do it all yourself…
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“..facing critics at work requires preparation with goals in mind, information gathered and emotions subdued. You do want to be emotionally neutral,” said Ellen Ostrow, a psychologist and owner of Lawyers Life Coach in Silver Spring. Try to act respectful, not defensive, no matter how you feel…
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“Though it may seem to overlap with therapy, coaching is a very different endeavor,” says Ellen Ostrow, Ph.D., who is both a psychologist and a coach in Washington, D.C. “Therapy is for healing wounds that impair a person's ability to function,” she says…
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At an April event held by the Women's Bar Association as part of its mentoring program, close to 30 attorneys filled a conference room at Howrey LLP to listen to Ellen Ostrow, founder of Lawyers Life Coach LLC, offer advice and answer questions about making career decisions…
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Ellen Ostrow, a clinical psychologist and founder of Lawyers Life Coach, agrees that a worldview that makes lawyers effective in their profession can pollute their personal lives. “Almost every lawyer I've worked with is looking for the dark cloud behind the silver lining,” she says…
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“One reason [that many lawyers are unhappy] is that attorneys, whether by temperament or training, tend to approach situations from the viewpoint of what can go wrong — which might make for good lawyering, but a glum worldview,” explains Ellen Ostrow, a personal coach who specializes in lawyers. What’s more, people who always see the negative don't bounce back as quickly as optimists…
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Psychologist Ellen Ostrow, who is also a professional coach and founder of LawyersLifeCoach.com, agrees with Seligman that lawyers tend to blame themselves when things go wrong…
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Little gasps burst from the audience at the Florida Association for Women Lawyers luncheon when keynote speaker Ellen Ostrow said: “I’m going to ask you to throw away your to-do lists.”…
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When a colleague told Julie Day, a lawyer in Fairfax, VA, that she was consulting an executive coach — a new breed of personal trainer who helps clients develop business acumen and people skills — Ms. Day was not impressed…
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The profession's problems are not just evident to those on the inside. Others, including Ellen Ostrow, Ph.D., see the super-charged stress and subsequent dissension the law-firm environment breeds…
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Despite the many seminars offered on how to achieve success in the practice of law, all of which invariably mention self-promotion, the concept of self-promotion remains unpalatable to most women…
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Vivia Chen The American Lawyer
Big Law is not known as a welcoming place for women partners. But a close look at the latest numbers reveals that women are actually making gains—sometimes substantial gains—at many of the über-elite Am Law 200 firms…
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