As coaches for attorneys, Irwin Pollack and Steve Sharaf are part strategist, part sounding board, part cheerleader and part taskmaster.

Between them, they help you brainstorm great ideas, get motivated and provide expert advice on a range of issues.

The bottom-line is this: Getting a legal education does not assure any of us success in our profession. Passing the Bar guarantees us nothing - other than the right to call ourselves an attorney. There are no guarantees. No safety net.

Moreover, competent and zealous representation - by itself - doesn't cut it anymore. Even billing 1,800 or 2,000 hours a year is not enough. Other attorneys can work at getting the same number of hours that you do.

If you want to stick out of the crowd, assist your firm in areas outside the billable hour such as researching new technology, involvement in a mentoring program, business planning and development.

Let's face it: Neither the business of the practice of law nor how to market yourself are taught in many law schools, so attorneys often feel ill-equipped to develop a career strategy, promote themselves, or even their own practice. Yet these are essential skills.

That's why hiring a coach - or mentor - is often viewed as a proactive career move.

So, why should you hire Irwin Pollack or Steve Sharaf as your coaches?

Their unique style of consulting and mentoring will be different from anything you have ever experienced. All of the work you do together is custom-fit especially for you. There are no boilerplate reports, statistics, or thick binders full of information that will just sit on your desk, never opened, or collecting dust!

Everything you work on is based on real life business - your business - not theories in a book that sound good but don't necessarily translate to your practice or your position as a new associate.

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