Want to take your career to the next level? Here are 20 tips to put your legal career on the fast-track.
1. Proactively seek new assignments and challenges.
2. Contribute to the company’s bottom line.
3. Avoid placing limits on the scope of your position.
4. Cultivate relationships with people in power.
5. Develop and implement more efficient work processes.
6. Become technologically proficient.
7. Raise your company profile through networking, committees and assignments outside your department.
8. Become the go-to person in a niche area of expertise.
9. Advance your education and/or obtain specialty certification.
10. Become a top producer, no matter what the yardstick (quotas, billable hours, etc.)
11. Polish your interpersonal skills.
12. Find a mentor.
13. Be a team player yet demonstrate independent thought.
14. Maintain an upbeat, positive attitude.
15. Don’t just meet, but beat, deadlines.
16. Perfect your writing skills.
17. Deliver a consistently high-level work product.
18. Establish and exceed career goals and performance objectives.
19. Learn the art of self-promotion; publicize your accomplishments.
20. Be an innovator.
