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You Have a Finite Amount of Professional Capital. Most People Spend It in Exactly the Wrong Places. The third time opposing counsel mistook me for

You Have a Finite Amount of Professional Capital. Most People Spend It in Exactly the Wrong Places. The third time opposing counsel mistook me for

Your Firm Says It Is Returning to Merit. The Question Nobody Asks Is: Returning From Where? Lately, I keep hearing law firms talk about “returning

Stay or Go Is the Wrong Question. The Right One Is Whether You Ever Chose. It usually happens late at night. You are doing the

Everyone Else Seems to Know the Rules. You Were Handed a Different Map. When I was a first-year law student at Harvard, I wrote to

For most of my time at my law firm, I was not a passive participant in its diversity and inclusion efforts. I was a Women’s

When I arrived at my law firm, I had one primary goal that had nothing to do with the practice of law. I wanted to
Erika R. Royal, Esq. is the founder of Royal Influence® and creator of Strategic Radical Acceptance™. She spent 22 years as an employment attorney and Partner at an AmLaw 100 firm. She works with underrepresented senior associates and newly minted partners navigating BigLaw, and with organizations ready to give their people real tools for the real environment they’re operating in.