How To Apply
Who Is This For?
- Senior associates and junior partners at mid-size or large law firms who want to improve their people management skills
Why Join?
- Law schools spend almost no time talking about clients, so it’s little surprise that they spend no time at all talking about people management.
- As it turns out, however, managing people is a big part of the job - especially once you become a mid-level associate and beyond.
- There is very little that is intuitive about managing people. So it’s unsurprising that many lawyers - having never been taught how to manage people - don’t make great managers.
- Here’s a little secret - most managers outside the legal industry are actually really bad managers. They tend to get promoted into management roles because they were really good individual contributors (i.e. good at their prior jobs).
- Law firms aren’t that different - you tend to move up the ranks because you were good at the requirements of your previous role. Along the way, you become a manager. Sure, you’re not ‘called’ a manager. And it’s highly unlikely you’re compensated directly for your management. But there is no doubt that you are a manager.
- To be an effective manager, you need to know modern management best practices. And you need to know how to apply them. That’s where we come in.
- There’s no denying that there are unique challenges of being an effective manager in a law firm - especially if you’re working in BigLaw.
- These sessions are built by people who have been in your shoes and are still in your shoes - and they’re designed for busy lawyers at law firms who realize they want to upgrade their management skills.