Legally Balanced

Hosted ByAri Alvarez

Tipping the Scale for Diverse Attorneys

Ari Alvarez is a diverse partner at an AMLAW 100 firm and a certified career coach. She is passionate about helping diverse attorneys reach the next level in their careers. In the Legally Balanced Podcast, Ari will provide practical, bite-sized nuggets of career development, business development and related advice, in order to give diverse lawyers an edge in this very competitive field.


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21. Path to Partnership: Things That Could Doom Your Candidacy

21. Path to Partnership: Things That Could Doom Your Candidacy This is the last episode of our series on the Path to Partnership. In this episode, we’ll talk about a few things that you may want to avoid, because they could create problems with your…

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21. Path to Partnership: Things That Could Doom Your Candidacy
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20. Path to Partnership: Things That Give You an Edge

20. Path to Partnership: Things That Give You an Edge This is the sixth episode of our series on the Path to Partnership. In this episode, we’ll discuss certain traits that usually give a candidate an edge over other candidates for partnership….

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20. Path to Partnership: Things That Give You an Edge
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19. Path to Partnership: What They Don’t Tell You

19. Path to Partnership: What They Don’t Tell You This is the fifth episode of our series on the Path to Partnership. In this episode, we’ll talk about things that are not written down in any partnership memo, and that are usually not formally…

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19. Path to Partnership: What They Don't Tell You
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18. Path to Partnership: Subjective Factors Considered By Firms

18. Path to Partnership: Subjective Factors Considered By Firms This is the fourth episode of our series on the Path to Partnership. And in today’s episode, we’ll touch on the qualitative criteria that firms take into account when evaluating a…

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18. Path to Partnership: Subjective Factors Considered By Firms
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17. Path to Partnership: It’s All About the Numbers

17. Path to Partnership: It’s All About the Numbers This is the third episode of our series on the Path to Partnership. And in this episode, we will talk about the quantitative factors that firms often consider when they are evaluating a candidate for…

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17. Path to Partnership: It's All About the Numbers
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16. Path To Partnership: Start By Knowing Your Firm

16. Path To Partnership: Start By Knowing Your Firm This is the second episode of our series on Path to Partnership. Today, we will talk about the starting point when developing any partnership plan, and that is to know your firm. “[…] Part of the…

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16. Path To Partnership: Start By Knowing Your Firm
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15. How Early Should You Start Preparing for Partnership

15. How Early Should You Start Preparing for Partnership This is the first episode of our series on the Path to Partnership. We will kick things off by talking about how soon you should start to prepare for partnership and the things you should…

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15. How Early Should You Start Preparing for Partnership
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Episode 14. I  Hate Business Development! What do I do?

Episode 14. I  Hate Business Development! What do I do?   This is the seventh and last episode of our series on business development. We will close this series by addressing the elephant in the room, which is that many lawyers despise…

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Episode 14. I  Hate Business Development! What do I do?
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13. When Developing Business, Do NOT Do This!

13. When Developing Business, Do NOT Do This! his is the sixth episode of our series on business development. We will talk about some of the common blunders that lawyers make when they are trying to develop their book of business, and how to avoid…

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13. When Developing Business, Do NOT Do This!
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