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New Associate Fundamentals: Starting Strong

Maximizing Well-Being and Optimizing Performance, Being Purposely Professional, Building Relationships, and More

$125.00

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Description

Course Modules and Webinar Include:

  • Thriving in the Legal Profession: Maximizing Well-Being and Optimizing Performance (13 min) In this program we'll explore the relationship between well-being, productivity, and performance—and explore five healthy habits that you can adopt right away to maximize all three.
  • Being Purposely Professional as a New Associate (16 min) In this module we'll take a closer look at what it means to "be purposely professional" and we'll meet a few new associates and observe their actions—and then assess how they conducted themselves and which of the essential elements of professionalism they may or may not have embodied.
  • How to Shine as a Junior Associate: It Starts with You (10 min) In this module we explore how you can increase your awareness of what you can control in your day-to-day interactions to maximize your probability of success at the firm.
  • How to Shine as a Junior Associate: Building Relationships (10 min) In this module we explore some practical tips you can implement immediately to begin cultivating strong career-enhancing relationships while building your reputation as well.
  • How to Shine as a Junior Associate: Getting to Know the Firm (11 min) In this module we explore effective concrete actions you can take to learn more about the firm and why that matters to your professional growth and your standing in the firm.
  • Webinar: Law Firm 101: How to Keep and Excel at the Job You Worked So Hard to Get This CLE webinar is about a topic that smart attorneys resoundingly agree is hugely essential, but which all agree they were never taught in law school or for years afterward. That topic is how to survive in the law business--not the law practice--the law business.

Presented By

Fred B. Burnside

Mr. Burnside concentrates his complex civil litigation practice on matters related to class-action defense, consumer financial services, and commercial litigation. His more than two decades as an attorney is distinguished by significant victories in state and federal trial and appellate courts, particularly in actions challenging banking fees and services. Since successfully defending a pioneer class action lawsuit over insufficient funds (NSF) fee practices, Mr. Burnside has represented dozens of major financial service providers facing similar claims. He also has the rare experience of taking a financial services class action through a jury trial—and winning. With an established track record of securing outright victory or favorable settlements, Mr. Burnside has become the go-to attorney for consumer financial service providers facing class action lawsuits challenging fees charged by banks and credit unions. His leadership at DWT includes serving as the co-chair of the Class Action Defense group and co-chair of the Consumer Financial Services Litigation industry team, and he previously served as the firm's Deputy Chair of the Litigation Department, Executive Committee member, and on the firm's Share (Compensation) Committee. Mr. Burnside is a co-chair of the ABA's Annual National Institute on Class Actions, editor of the ABA Class Action Committee's Annual Survey of State Class Action Litigation, and a member of the American Law Institute.

Daniel R. Karon
Lead Counsel
Karon, LLC

Mr. Karon is a class-action trial attorney specializing in antitrust, consumer–fraud, and wage-and-hour litigation. He began his class-action career with Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C. in Chicago. Mr. Karon now manages Karon LLC. He represents individuals in antitrust, consumer-fraud, wage-and-hour, and other class-actions and has represented domestic and international corporations in domestic and international antitrust class-action matters. Mr. Karon also defends corporations in consumer-fraud and antitrust class actions. He teaches consumer law at the University of Michigan Law School and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and taught complex litigation at Columbia Law School. He has also been a lecturer in law at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Mr. Karon lectures on class-action law at multiple other law schools and serves on Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies’ U.S. Advisory Board. For thirteen years, he chaired the ABA’s National Institute on Class Actions, for five years wrote a bimonthly column for Law360, was an editorial board member and contributing author to the ABA Litigation Section’s Class Actions Today-Jurisdiction to Resolution magazine, co-chaired the American Association of Justice Class Action Litigation Group, was a member of the Ohio Association of Justice Board of Trustees, and served as an editorial board member for the Ohio Academy of Justice’s Ohio Trial magazine. He has published several law review and bar journal articles on class-action topics, and he lectures nationally on class actions for the ABA and other bar associations.

Credit Information
  • This 60-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.0 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, May 21, 2024

  • schedule

    1:00 PM E.T.

I. The business of law vs. practice of law

II. The importance of having a book of business and how to get one

III. Navigating law firm politics

IV. The benefit of side hustles

V. Developing a long-term business (and retirement) plan

The presenters will discuss the following key issues:

  • What habits can be adopted to maximize well-being, productivity, and performance?
  • What does it mean to be purposely professional?
  • What steps can new associates take to learn more about their firm?
  • What is the difference between the business of law and the practice of law?
  • What can associates without a book of business do to make themselves valuable?
  • What techniques are essential to law firm survival and making the most money you can?