Lawyers often come to legal department management without specific management training and experience. Many of the traditional leadership and professional training programs offered for corporate executives are not particularly applicable to lawyers or do not address the unique position and responsibilities of managing internal and outside lawyers, advising senior management, and executing fiduciary duties involving corporate governance, compliance and ethics.
Research has shown that lawyers have a number of personality traits and other qualities that are decidedly different from other business people. As such, effective law department leaders must employ different leadership and management tools than their business counterparts. We provide assessments to measure your individual and collective strengths, and develop customized management and leadership training.
As corporate governance and the role of in-house counsel grow increasingly complex, the need for skilled leaders who can manage their team effectively, as well as deal with senior company executives and outside counsel, has increased dramatically. Often those in law department management roles, or who aspire to them, have not had the opportunity to gain the necessary skills and experience to be effective. We can help you create and implement a program specifically focused on identifying and developing law department leaders. We will also keep you and the rest of your department up-to-date on management and supervisory skills and techniques relevant to the law department's operations.
Providing lawyers with feedback, skills and support can dramatically improve their productivity and collegiality, as well as their satisfaction with the company, law department and their individual practice. Let us help you fashion a personalized, confidential coaching (or training) program that develops that potential.
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