Ellen In The News

Dad-Mom Role Reversals

Working MotherBy: Sara EckelMarch 2010 Amid bruised egos, resentments and confusion, families are struggling to find their footing as they cope with the financial, emotional and who-does-the-dishes-now restructuring of their lives brought on by the r… Read More

Letting It All Hang Out

ABA Journalby Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz TempleJuly 2009 Job jolt could change your life for the better. Economic meltdown, thousands of lost lawyer jobs, big-firm careers teetering on the brink: What could be worse for an attorney t… Read More

Off Track

ABA JournalBy Leslie A. GordonFebruary 2009 So many legal careers are “like runaway trains,” says Ellen Ostrow, a Silver Spring, MD-based lawyer coach who also has an office in Washington, D.C. Attorneys…who take time off are “wise en… Read More

7 Reads for Realizing Your Dream Life in the Law

Darling HillOctober 15, 2008 Ellen Ostrow, a Lawyer Life Coach, has just relaunched her web site Lawyers Life Coach. Check it out for a great list of resource books on realizing your dream life in the law, and while you’re there, don’t miss her �… Read More

Rx for Happiness

Pink MagazineJuly/August 2008By Michele Cohen Marill For some people, life with a backdrop of inner happiness might sound unattainable, or maybe even contrary to the conflicts and challenges that drive their careers. Lawyers, for example, are notorio… Read More

Healthy Lawyers are More Fully Engaged

The Complete Lawyer2008, Vol. 2, Number 3The Complete Lawyer Interview: Ellen OstrowConducted By TCL Editor, Don Hutcheson If you work from your strengths and enjoy good interactions with your colleagues every day, your odds of becoming a healthy law… Read More

The Challenge of Making Change

Counsel to CounselJune 14, 2007By Stephen Seckler, Esq Just before the New Year, Ellen Ostrow had a great piece on change. She discusses some of the barriers we all have to making change and talks about the importance of confronting our resistance to… Read More

Howdy, Partner

ArriveBy Joanne Cronrath BambergerMarch/April 2007, 26-31 Ellen Ostrow, a career consultant from Silver Spring, MD, hears similar tales of woe. She says increasing numbers of established workers as well as a rising number of younger workers are sayin… Read More

Part-Time Partners

Washington LawyerDecember 2006By Joan Indiana Rigdon The reason so few partners take advantage of part-time schedules is that there is often a gap between the written policy and how it is practiced, especially at midsize and small firms. “There… Read More

Prepared Remarks by Justice Peter T. Zarella

Judicial BranchOctober 30, 2006By Justice Peter T. Zarella Dr. Ellen Ostrow, the founder of Lawyers Life Coach, LLC, an organization established primarily as a resource for women lawyers, recently wrote an article (in volume 77 of Wisconsin Lawyer) e… Read More

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