The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary

Peer

A lawyer at roughly your stage, in your firm or another. In ten years some of your peers will be the decision-makers. The best message to a peer asks for nothing and says so nowhere. File, “peer” · Chapter 5 · see Cohort, Decision-maker

Explained in Chapter 5, Peers, Not Decision-Makers, of The Lawyer's Personal Brand.

How it comes up, in Chapter 5
Networking means keeping in touch with people on purpose. Most juniors aim it upward, at decision-makers: the people who can hire you or send you work. In a law firm, those are the partners. But the people with the power are the people without the time. Your peers (lawyers at roughly your stage) have the time. In ten years some of them will be the decision-makers.
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As defined in the training Brand File
a lawyer at roughly my stage, in my firm or any other; the people who will be heads of legal when I am ten years in;
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