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Thinking Outside the Lawyer Box 🎁 - Olga V Mack
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Thinking Outside the Lawyer Box 🎁 - Olga V Mack

“I am grateful for the first law firm employer to hire me after my first career in tourism. They could see that would leverage client intake, even though at the time I didn't make that link in my brain myself. I'm also indebted to my second corporate in-house job as a legal department leader, who hired me in Sydney for a job in Tokyo when I had no in-house experience. He saw more potential in me beyond my Japanese language skills….” Read more here…

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Finalist comments for the Law Awards 2020
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Finalist comments for the Law Awards 2020

We found there were even silver-linings to the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of helping clients do projects they had put aside, and assisting them get to grips with remote working x Zoom. Read more here …

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Lawyer Learnings Log #4 - Pivoting "I wish" to "I will"
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Lawyer Learnings Log #4 - Pivoting "I wish" to "I will"

“I wish” is a passive way of going through one’s life. In the last few weeks, I’ve made a conscious effort to tweak just two actions a day and move from the passive “I wish”, to the action-based “I will”. Read more here …

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