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An Insider's Guide to Law Firm Land: Tales on How to Become a Happy and Successful Lawyer is an engaging, personal mentorship book detailing how lawyers can achieve a happy and successful career in private practice law firms. This honest, captivating series of true tales offers a wealth of advice no one gave you in law school, such as the fact that lawyers who fail to deliver clients will be precariously close to being shown the exit door by their fortieth birthday. Each chapter reveals actual experiences from the author's thirty-year legal career. Herein lies guidance for exceeding expectations to become the go-to option for the most desirable work, delivering work product that makes Partners happy, dealing with difficult Partners, what it really means to make Partner, a fresh approach to client development as something to embrace rather than dread, and achieving a work-life balance between what the law firm wants and what you want to give.

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Scott Watkins is a Shareholder at one of the largest law firms in the world. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1989 and a JD from George Washington University in 1992. Focusing on emerging technologies, his career spans billion-dollar disputes over telephone infrastructure and fighter jet engines to social impact projects in alternative energy and law enforcement support. Scott's personal interest in mindfulness and self-growth led him to appreciate that while success alone can create an OK life, success balanced with happiness can create an exceptional life. A natural storyteller, Scott is passionate about sharing his personal stories to help lawyers enjoy a happy and successful career in law firms.

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