Not exact matches
These basic job application
skills (while important) do nothing to create
lawyers who are
skilled professionals, community leaders,
business managers and owners, or even to help students understand their own long - term career
development path.
Internally, when partners don't model and coach effective
business development and conflict management
skills, developing
lawyers pick up bad habits, repress their thoughts and feelings, and don't acquire important leadership
skills that they need for real communication with clients.
f you're a
lawyer looking for a new opportunity, recruiters advise associates and even partners to sharpen your
business development skills and build up your book of
business.
Alison Wolf of The Lawyer Coach Blog suggests that
business development skills, such as using language to build or maintain client relationships, can help women
lawyers advance in the legal profession.
«This is a MUST read in today's highly competitive market, which requires new
lawyers to quickly hit the ground running, rapidly acquire
business development and
lawyering skills, and seamlessly adjust to generational differences.»
Many
lawyers struggle to learn
business development skills, in no small part because they don't embrace the need to get better at it.
Lawyers need more «
skill development» in school because, especially amid the current economic downturn,
businesses are «not going to pay for people who can't add value.»
In this ultra-competitive landscape in which law schools continue to churn out
lawyers - to - be, effective
business development and practice management
skills may be among the most important a young
lawyer has to survive.
In this month's episode of Making Rain, our monthly
business development and practice management coaching column, Debra Forman looks at how
lawyers can enhance their leadership
skills, to be effective and successful leaders.
In closing, it is also a useful resource for legal marketers who want to develop their own
skills and abilities, and to help them with coaching the
lawyers they work with on
business development.
Mayer Brown has a robust training and professional
development curriculum for all levels of
lawyers that comprises programs covering such areas as legal and non-legal
skills,
business development, networking and marketing, leadership, and
business acumen.
This induction will also cover other important aspects of becoming a good
lawyer, including writing
skills,
business development and finance in a law firm.
I provide career coaching services to law firms,
lawyers, law schools and law students, with a particular focus on the
skills essential for
business development.
Our
business development training program for all attorneys that teaches
lawyers key
skills to advance in their careers.
The Firm also boasts a number of Firmwide training programs, including sessions on accounting for
lawyers, fact investigation, client interviews,
business development, negotiation
skills, oral communications, and legal writing.
• What you ask me to do does not align with what you compensate for — succession;
business development; delegating work; developing
lawyer skills; investing in the longer term; innovation; profitability; etc..
The message to young
lawyers is, «you either have it or you don't,» as if
business development isn't a
skill that can be learned and nurtured, but instead is bestowed from above upon a lucky few.
Business development skills can be learned and cultivated, but
lawyers need training, feedback and support in order to develop those
skills — particularly since they are not
skills that are taught in law school.
As noted above, since generating new
business takes a long time and is difficult to see or predict, rewarding the
development of
skills and the reaching of certain goals and benchmarks will help keep
lawyers on track and motivated to continue their
business development efforts.