The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary

Creator, not victim

A test for any sentence about your own work: find the verb and ask who is doing it. “The draft went out with the wrong date” has nobody in it. “I sent the draft with the wrong date, corrected it and told the client” has one person who can act. Chapter 8 · see Ownership email; Reframe

Explained in Chapter 8, Own It, of The Lawyer's Personal Brand.

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