{"id":138136,"date":"2025-12-04T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/04\/the-lawyers-guide-to-the-holidays\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:36:08","slug":"the-lawyers-guide-to-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/04\/the-lawyers-guide-to-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lawyer\u2019s Guide To The Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanksgiving is in the rearview, and the December holidays are upon us.\u00a0Consider this your holiday lawyer\u2019s guide.\u00a0In no particular order, a few thoughts and some advice.<\/p>\n

Gift Giving<\/strong>. Your staff works hard.\u00a0Don\u2019t rely solely on your firm to provide holiday gifts.\u00a0Get your legal assistant and paralegal a gift to show you appreciate them. Beyond your staff, give gifts to anyone else who has made your job easier this year.<\/p>\n

Holiday Cards<\/strong>. If your firm still provides its lawyers with holiday cards, secure some and send them out. If not, purchase a box or two of holiday cards and send them to colleagues and friends.\u00a0And please, no e-cards.<\/p>\n

Handwritten Notes<\/strong>. It\u2019s a great time of year to mail handwritten notes to others.<\/p>\n

Guard Your Calendar<\/strong>. <\/strong>It\u2019s easy to get buried in holiday commitments \u2014 office parties, bar association events, happy hours \u2014 go to what you want and need to go to, and do not overcommit.<\/p>\n

Respect Others\u2019 Calendars<\/strong>. If you do litigation as I do, many folks are out of pocket from mid-December through the end of the year.\u00a0 Understand and respect this.<\/p>\n

Holiday Blues<\/strong>. You may love the holidays.\u00a0Some suffer through them.\u00a0Appreciate others\u2019 perspectives and feelings toward the holidays and respect them.<\/p>\n

Your Waistline<\/strong>. It\u2019s easy to overindulge over the holidays and think you\u2019ll lose weight as part of your New Year\u2019s resolutions.\u00a0 It never quite works that way. The more holiday events you attend, the more cognizant you should be about that second serving of dessert.<\/p>\n

Make Time<\/strong>. The holidays are supposed to be about friends and family.\u00a0Make time for them and for yourself.<\/p>\n

Plan<\/strong>. December is a great time to plan for the following year.\u00a0Devise a plan for 2026 so you can hit the ground running come January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Treat Yourself<\/strong>. No one knows better than you what you want for the holidays. Buy yourself a gift for making it through another year of practice.<\/p>\n

Prepare A Budget<\/strong>. Create a budget for yourself for the coming year.\u00a0Many firms ask their lawyers to prepare a marketing budget.<\/p>\n

Online Shopping<\/strong>. Unless you like the malls, you can do your holiday shopping online and save time for your other interests and obligations.<\/p>\n

Donate. <\/strong>During the holidays, lots of folks don\u2019t have enough to buy their kids gifts or put food on the table.\u00a0Donate food, toys, etc.<\/p>\n

Traditions<\/strong>. The holidays are imbued with traditions.\u00a0Lean into them or create your own.<\/p>\n

Lower Expectations<\/strong>. Don\u2019t let culture, media, or social media define what the holidays should be.\u00a0It can be simple, low-key, and different.\u00a0Lower expectations of what holidays should be, and let them just be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The holidays should be fun, invigorating, and life-affirming.\u00a0So often we let the stress and demands of the holidays make them unenjoyable.\u00a0Let\u2019s focus on what matters, and let\u2019s focus on the true meaning of the holidays.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Frank Ramos is a partner at Goldberg Segalla in Miami, where he practices commercial litigation, products, and catastrophic personal injury.\u00a0You can follow him on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>, where he has about 80,000 followers<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The post The Lawyer\u2019s Guide To The Holidays<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Thanksgiving is in the rearview, and the December holidays are upon us.\u00a0Consider this your holiday lawyer\u2019s guide.\u00a0In no particular order, a few thoughts and some advice.<\/p>\n

Gift Giving<\/strong>. Your staff works hard.\u00a0Don\u2019t rely solely on your firm to provide holiday gifts.\u00a0Get your legal assistant and paralegal a gift to show you appreciate them. Beyond your staff, give gifts to anyone else who has made your job easier this year.<\/p>\n

Holiday Cards<\/strong>. If your firm still provides its lawyers with holiday cards, secure some and send them out. If not, purchase a box or two of holiday cards and send them to colleagues and friends.\u00a0And please, no e-cards.<\/p>\n

Handwritten Notes<\/strong>. It\u2019s a great time of year to mail handwritten notes to others.<\/p>\n

Guard Your Calendar<\/strong>. <\/strong>It\u2019s easy to get buried in holiday commitments \u2014 office parties, bar association events, happy hours \u2014 go to what you want and need to go to, and do not overcommit.<\/p>\n

Respect Others\u2019 Calendars<\/strong>. If you do litigation as I do, many folks are out of pocket from mid-December through the end of the year.\u00a0 Understand and respect this.<\/p>\n

Holiday Blues<\/strong>. You may love the holidays.\u00a0Some suffer through them.\u00a0Appreciate others\u2019 perspectives and feelings toward the holidays and respect them.<\/p>\n

Your Waistline<\/strong>. It\u2019s easy to overindulge over the holidays and think you\u2019ll lose weight as part of your New Year\u2019s resolutions.\u00a0 It never quite works that way. The more holiday events you attend, the more cognizant you should be about that second serving of dessert.<\/p>\n

Make Time<\/strong>. The holidays are supposed to be about friends and family.\u00a0Make time for them and for yourself.<\/p>\n

Plan<\/strong>. December is a great time to plan for the following year.\u00a0Devise a plan for 2026 so you can hit the ground running come January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Treat Yourself<\/strong>. No one knows better than you what you want for the holidays. Buy yourself a gift for making it through another year of practice.<\/p>\n

Prepare A Budget<\/strong>. Create a budget for yourself for the coming year.\u00a0Many firms ask their lawyers to prepare a marketing budget.<\/p>\n

Online Shopping<\/strong>. Unless you like the malls, you can do your holiday shopping online and save time for your other interests and obligations.<\/p>\n

Donate. <\/strong>During the holidays, lots of folks don\u2019t have enough to buy their kids gifts or put food on the table.\u00a0Donate food, toys, etc.<\/p>\n

Traditions<\/strong>. The holidays are imbued with traditions.\u00a0Lean into them or create your own.<\/p>\n

Lower Expectations<\/strong>. Don\u2019t let culture, media, or social media define what the holidays should be.\u00a0It can be simple, low-key, and different.\u00a0Lower expectations of what holidays should be, and let them just be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The holidays should be fun, invigorating, and life-affirming.\u00a0So often we let the stress and demands of the holidays make them unenjoyable.\u00a0Let\u2019s focus on what matters, and let\u2019s focus on the true meaning of the holidays.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Frank Ramos is a partner at Goldberg Segalla in Miami, where he practices commercial litigation, products, and catastrophic personal injury.\u00a0You can follow him on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>, where he has about 80,000 followers<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The post The Lawyer\u2019s Guide To The Holidays<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is in the rearview, and the December holidays are upon us.\u00a0Consider this your holiday lawyer\u2019s guide.\u00a0In no particular order, a few thoughts and some advice. Gift Giving. Your staff works hard.\u00a0Don\u2019t rely solely on your firm to provide holiday gifts.\u00a0Get your legal assistant and paralegal a gift to show you appreciate them. Beyond your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RamosFrank_Web-kVSGJ3.png?fit=880%2C587&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}