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Summer Associate Style: What to Wear For Your Internship

Updated04/02/2024

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What should you wear for your internship or summer associateship? Welcome to the first installment of our Summer Associate Series! Name aside, we hope this series will be helpful to ANY intern, whether you’re a law student or another woman interning in a conservative office for the summer. First up in our series: WHAT TO…

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CoWorker Problems | Office Culture | Pregnancy

Handling Frequent Doctors’ Appointments

Updated04/18/2024

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When you have to take time off work for frequent doctors’ appointments, how can you schedule them to minimize the effect on your workday? What are the best ways to explain your absences to your boss, secretary, and other coworkers?

Offensive Clients: How to Deal

Updated12/13/2022

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Update: We still think this is an interesting discussion of how to deal with offensive clients — but you may also want to check out our more recent discussion about the colleague who offered the reader’s firstborn to sweeten the deal. How do you deal with men at work making derisive comments about the expense…

Just Starting Out | Office Culture | Office Decor | Professionalism

Mirrors and the Office

Updated11/01/2018

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Are mirrors too girly to have in your office? Which mirrors are best for the office? Reader A wonders… I am six-months into my first post-school job and am (as per your advice) slowly decorating my office. I’d really like to have a mirror in my office to check my makeup before meetings, etc. But,…

Being a Boss | Business Etiquette | Office Culture

Happy Administrative Professionals Week!

Updated04/01/2021

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Although Wednesday is officially Administrative Professionals Day, it’s been spreading into a weeklong affair for a few years now. Readers, what are you getting your administrative professionals to celebrate? Some past reading for you: we’ve taken polls on administrative professionals day gifts before, talked about how and what to delegate to your assistant, and swapped…

Summer Associate Style: What to Wear For Your Internship

Handling Frequent Doctors’ Appointments

Offensive Clients: How to Deal

Mirrors and the Office

Happy Administrative Professionals Week!

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