While law schools and other educational institutions provide instruction and experiences that are crucial to becoming an effective and successful attorney, there are also many lessons that you can only learn once you’ve started to do the job.

Often times, in the practice of law when traversing shark infested waters, we can be guided by Scuba Steve’s instructions.

As this issue centers on advice to young attorneys from the more tenured ones, I would like to briefly turn the tables on the topic as advice from young attorneys to the tenured ones: keep mentoring us.

You have a new client and want to be paid up front, in one non-refundable lump sum for representing her. There will be no hourly billing or retainers. Can you represent the client under these terms and deposit the fee payment in your business account rather than in your IOLTA/trust account?

Think back to your first days, weeks or years as an attorney: What’s a lesson you learned or a piece of advice that has stuck with you?

We asked members of the Philadelphia Bar Association to share the best tips, practices or words of wisdom they received as new attorneys. 

On October 13, 2002, hundreds of people gathered at the Philadelphia Zoo to celebrate “Boo at the Zoo,” an event hosted by the Young Lawyer’s Division. Filled with music, dancing, food, animals, and more, this party was hosted to benefit the Philadelphia Bar Foundation.