"E-commerce giant Shopify is shrinking its internship program and pulling back job offers in the latest string of troubling times for the company." - Linkedin News, July 17, 2022. The financial and career implications of this pull-back are huge. Those who depend on a job for all their income won't have that job. Those who depend on an internship in order to have the credits for graduation will have to scramble for another internship or be left short of what's needed for the academic degree. Shopify had been founded in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. It remains headquartered there. So, it's clear that ..read more

"The Most Hated Justice on the Supreme Court" That is the headline this morning in Bloomberg. The justice "owning" that status is Brett Kavanaugh. Potentially, he’s lucky because he can leverage that negative attention into unique influence on conservative issues. That is, if he learns to master the art and science of engagement.  So far he's missed the boat on that. For instance, he hadn't transformed the personal attacks on him, ranging from at his home to at a restaurant, into platforms for advocating positions on legal, political, and social points of view. Because of those events the ..read more

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The Hulu documentary "Victoria's Secret: Angels & Demons" (subscription required) looks at this question, which has been asked over and over again: What was Jeffrey Epstein's strange hold on powerful men, ranging from retail mogul Les Wexner to financial empire-builder Leon Black? In the documentary that question is smoothly introduced into a broad-based backgrounder on the rise and fall of Victoria's Secret. The narrative is engaging. The interviews insightful. Before it drifted out of touch with changing values in America that retailer was a disruptor in women's - then even young girl's ..read more

Should this law student focusing on transactional career path apply to X, Y, or Z law firm in Chicago. The specific issue is this: Experience at which would provide the best leverage for exiting out to the Next. That's the thread on Subreddit Big Law, which you can follow here. What's obvious is that, given the reality that the first job or the first few jobs are viewed as being on short time, law firms should recruit with that in mind. That is, highlight the broad marketability of that training, those assignments, and interal/external networking.  Meanwhile, for insider data on which fir ..read more

The leaders and key partners at large firms make it their business to publish op-eds. Those can be about general issues or the specifics of their specialized expertise. Paul Weiss has devoted a part of its law firm website to promoting that process. Recently, its chairperson Brad Karp pubished a provocative op-ed in Fortune on getting the FTC in the loop on firearms issues. So, to respond to the associate on Subreddit Big Law about publishing op-eds, the answer is: Of course. They can give an edge to a career. Here is the thread. But, as those commenting indicate, run the content by the approp ..read more

Relationship problems are cross-cultural. So we can easily identify with the London law firm (which recently set up a branch in Chicago) of divorce lawyers. That connecting is not only with their clients' challenges but also their own. All that plays out in the Hulu series "The Split." Among the most skilled, effective, and high-billing divorce lawyers is Hannah. She can connect on an emotional level with the clients' upheaval. Along the way in her own life it's outed that her husband has used one of those online services for romance beyond the boundaries of a marriage. An efficient problem-so ..read more

"JPMorgan Chase & Co. temporarily suspended share buybacks and reported second-quarter results that fell short of analysts’ estimates, driving the stock as much as 5.1% lower. " - Bloomberg, July 14, 2022. The hurricane that the financial empire's head Jamie Dimon had been predicting has started. Headwinds include the slump in its investment banking. For JPMorgan that represented a 55% decline. Dimon has set aside $428 million for loans which might sour. Meanwhile, as The Wall Street Journal reports, throughout much of Big Banking there is a slowdown. As an intuitive career coach what is p ..read more