Dear Let the Hunger Games Begin: At this point, you’ve successfully navigated three years of law school, interview week, offers, and now you are here. There is a lot to say about articling, but I want to focus on what I view to be one of the make or break aspects of your upcoming year: competition.

Dear The Sunday Scaries:   I love weekends. Who doesn’t? It is a time to be with friends and family and decompress. And yet sometimes, the excitement and fun of the weekend takes a turn on Sunday, as we know it is the eve of a workweek with all the buzz and grind that comes along with it.

We are excited to kick off our new “LiL Round Up” series – bringing together our top 5 Life in Law Blog posts from the past four months. Check out our full list of posts below:

We are excited to welcome to our blog our latest Guest Blogger, Suzannah Denholm of Hamilton Duncan, who offers valuable insight on pressing the pause button on her legal career and shares the honest reality of that decision.

For me, non-billable work has always been a struggle and it always seems to be in competition with billable hours. This feeling is personally driven by the well-known fact that billable work reaps a monetary reward. It drives compensation and so non-billable activity generally takes a back seat. I expect I’m not alone in my struggle. Additionally, I think women have historically taken on more of what might be seen as the “office house-work” tasks in a law firm which have gone and continue to go unnoticed in the compensation process. So how can we change this mindset? In researching this issue I came across a paper published in the Texas Law Review “The Cost of Non-Billable Work” written by Martha M. Ertman. This paper is a very dense read but for me it was worth it. The author put…