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Solo practitioner Adam Seiden is chair of the New York State Bar Association and writes about the U.S. Surgeon General’s report in 2024called “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.” The report is about how the pandemic has increased loneliness amongst Americans, and that the result can be increased risk of stroke, heart disease and dementia in older adults.

Rachael Bosch, CEO and founder of Fringe Professional Development, and Dareth Finn, a partner at VOYlegal, impart advice from their years as recruiters in the legal industry to Gen Z associates starting out in their law careers. Bosch and Finn note that the current generation of junior associates appear to have different challenges than their senior counterparts, mostly struggling with the more fluid requirements of being part of a practice.

Firms such as Husch Blackwell, one of the big law firms on the Am Law 100, started using an outside provider that uses AI with training young attorneys. The AI uses real-world scenarios to help with training, and other top firms in the country are also doing the same.

Zach Agate, a workers’ compensation attorney at Pond Lehocky Giordano in Pennsylvania, researched methods of better time management for attorneys. Usually required to multi-task, lawyers often are juggling client communications, court hearings, meetings with opposing counsel, and business development opportunities. As a result, those in the law industry can easily find themselves burned out if they don’t manage their time wisely. After conducting his research, Agate shares the top five ways he believes attorneys could manage time better in 2025:

Negotiating isn’t a specialized skill, but something we regularly do. Speakers on a panel at this year’s General Counsel Conference East agreed that negotiations occur daily. The panel, titled “Getting Out of Your Own Way: How to Negotiate Your Way to the Top” featured attorneys and professionals in the legal industry discussing how people negotiate in daily life.

Bryce Sanders, president of Perceptive Business Solutions Inc., provides HNW client acquisition training for the financial services industry. Sanders writes that lawyers on television series and movies often have clients seeking them out, but in real life, attorneys are expected to bring clients into private practice.

Recruitment attorney Mike Evers advises corporations to make use of LinkedIn’s newsfeed features. The platform’s newsfeed helps supplement networking and boosts awareness of an attorney’s profile to potential employers. Evers suggests that a company’s LinkedIn newsfeed should feature posts of positive news from the company, legal developments from the industry and helpful tips for the community.

Michael P. Maslanka, associate professor of law at UNT Dallas College of Law, advises that “everyone is an inherently effective public speaker given the right tools” and believes that a person can “embrace the authentic version of yourself, and step up to the podium.”

Joseph Froetschel, founding partner of Phillips Froetschel, represents injured individuals in medical malpractice and personal injury cases. When he’s not working as an attorney and adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Froetschel finds that using his vacation time to kayak during the summer taught him lessons that transfer into his trial lawyer life. 

Business development consultant Yuliya LaRoe is a former attorney who founded consulting firm LeadWise Group to assist law firms, in-house legal departments and corporations solve personnel issues before it affects the bottom line of their business. As CEO, LaRoe realizes that most businesses will strategize a blueprint for business development success, but encounter difficulty transforming that vision into reality.