For the litigation associate I once was, defining wins was easy, especially when they were celebrated during weekly docket meetings with the entire law firm office. We all shared when we won motions, hearings, or trials, or signed up a new client. On a smaller level, when it came to performance review and self-evaluation time, it was easy to talk about my billable hours, my business development efforts, and the skills I had developed or the clients I had served.
Money Made To the extent you get to work on projects that enable or contribute to how your company makes money, this is one that I would definitely mention. While I am rarely in this space as an employment lawyer and cannot personally leverage this strategy, I can see how this is especially powerful if you are enabling company innovation as a tech or IP lawyer or helping your private company transition to a public o.
Not all wins are directly tied to money, and not all wins have to be public facing. If you were able to meet your shared goals and help make your company a better, more efficient place, good for you. That is a win!
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