Be prepared. Practice your response. I have helped a significant number of my clients prepare for job interviews. When an interview is on the horizon, we prepare answers to tough questions they may encounter so they will present themselves well and hopefully land the position.
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Why Lawyers In Burnout Under-Report Billable Hours
Last updated: 23 November 2025 Many lawyers in private practice experience burnout because they are not accurately recording the hours they work on client matters. Under reporting billable hours — including under-releasing time spent on research, drafting, meetings, and other legal tasks — can quietly accelerate exhaustion, reduce realization rates, and distort perceptions of productivity. […]
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New Job Offer? Do Your Due Diligence
Lots of people are looking for work at any given time. In Calgary, more people than usual looking for work today because of the low price of oil and all the lay-offs that have happened over the past year and a half.
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Bored? Have no work to do? Fear you’re going to be fired?
The title of this blog post won’t make any sense to people who lived outside of Calgary. But if you live in Calgary, even if you don’t work in the oil industry, you get it. If it’s not you that has no work to do, then someone you talked to earlier today is in this […]
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Still Employed? Survivor Guilt in Calgary
Almost 100,000 people have lost their jobs because of the downturn in oil prices. That’s a huge number. The media says that more job cuts are to come. One large oil company announced this morning that it will cut an additional 7,000 jobs worldwide.
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Surviving being laid off: Perspective is key
Sometimes people come to see me in my private practice after they have just been laid off. They are usually rocked. Their self-esteem has taken a blow. They’re seen others be laid off from their jobs but they weren’t prepared for it be their turn.
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Falling oil prices create stress as well as opportunities
Falling oil prices create stress. You only have to listen to the news or read the newspaper to sense the fear as oil prices fall.
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Career choices: Change jobs or change professions?
It is helpful to anticipate the challenges you may encounter when you decide to change jobs or change professions.
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