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Restarting your legal career after taking time off for any reason can be difficult. You may have left the workforce to raise a family or care for an ailing loved one. Maybe you were downsized during the recession and struggled to find work. Or you may have simply decided that you want to return to law after years of working in another field.

Whatever your reason, some challenges come with making the transition back into law. In this article, I will explore some of the most common challenges faced by attorneys who are starting over and strategies for overcoming these obstacles.

1. Challenge: Outdated Skills

Suppose you have been out of the legal field for a significant time. In that case, your skills may be outdated — a significant obstacle when most employers look for candidates experienced with contemporary tools and strategies.

How to Overcome It

Consider taking continuing legal

The need for law firms to set themselves apart from their competition is clear. Applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices in current marketing strategies have become increasingly important for law firms over the past couple of years. Simply searching for a “lawyer near me” brings up a list of thousands of lawyers located close to the user. Law firms that appear at the top of Google’s search engine results are highly ranked due to Search Engine Optimization. If you wonder why your law firm does not appear on the first page of a Google search, there are steps you can take to improve and optimize your law firm’s website ranking.

Ways to Increase Your Law Firms Search Engine Ranking
There are various reasons why a law firm’s website is not ranking high enough to show up on the first page of a Google search, but the good news is that

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In light of Donald Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he intends to mount a third presidential campaign to make America great yet again, Attorney General Merrick Garland has named former Justice Department lawyer Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate the former president and his many, many crimes.

Smith, a former prosecutor at the special court in The Hague for war crimes in Kosovo who once headed the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, has conducted multiple high-profile public corruption cases, including Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi for bribery and extortion.

In a hastily convened press conference, the AG vested Smith with authority over the two ongoing investigations of Donald Trump. Henceforward the sprawling queries into Trump’s involvement in the plot to use fake electors to obstruct certification of President Biden’s victory, as well as the more targeted inquiry into the theft of government

Since I live in a land where everyone, or almost everyone, gets an award for something, no matter how trivial, I am creating an award for the stupid, thoughtless things that lawyers and judges do. With an acknowledgement to the season, I am calling my award the “Headless Turkey” or should it be the “Heedless Turkey”? Whatever. I bestow this award (and no one is going to get a pardon like the White House turkey) on just a few of many deserving peeps. Selecting awardees is like shopping at Costco; the choices are many.

Do you think that lawyers and judges in hindsight ask themselves why they did the stupid, license-lifting, judge-admonishing, reputation-trashing things? What were they thinking?  They weren’t. They acted just like chickens — or in this case, turkeys — with their heads cut off.

Might as well start with a former Ninth Circuit judge who had the

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Donald Trump was either the dumbest CEO in America, or he participated in a whole lot of crimes. His company’s lawyers are hoping to convince a jury of the first in the criminal prosecution of the Trump Organization underway in Manhattan.

The goal here is to present former CFO Allen Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty to charges that he participated in a decades-long scheme to use pre-tax dollars to pay for his apartment, cars, and various other perks, as the lone criminal mastermind seeking to defraud the company. To that end, Weisselberg’s longtime right hand man, comptroller Jeff McConney, spent three days on the witness stand purporting to have thought it was very cool and very legal to keep a second set of secret books documenting the declining balance of top executives’ salaries.

The problem with this strategy, as Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery, who