FIRM FUNDAMENTALS

In today’s challenging legal marketplace, a robust, dynamic, and strategic professional development program is essential to achieving the level of growth and expertise that individual lawyers and law firms need to compete and thrive.  

An effective professional development function encompasses:

• PD objectives to be achieved
• Your firm's overall strategic goals
• The four aspects of PD
• Core competencies or benchmarks

As a professional development consultant, we guide firms through the process of building awareness, assessing needs and resources, creating a strategic professional development plan, and designing and implementing the specific components of that plan.

As a training provider, we offer comprehensive interactive programs in four categories to meet your firm's needs in a cost-effective manner. These include:

• Professional Practices
  
• Litigation Skills  - Basic  -  Intermediate  -  Advanced
  
• Clinical Programs
• Writing Workshops

All of our training sessions combine discussion-style presentations with hands-on exercises requiring associates to take risks and demonstrate their understanding of the procedures and principles at issue.

The clinical programs and writing workshops are designed to provide associates with a realistic experience in a challenging atmosphere. Programs can be combined or customized to meet your firm's needs.

In addition to our live programs, we can develop virtual and online programs to meet your firm's needs.

To help individual associates reach their full potential we offer intensive individual coaching in person or via email, telepohone or videoconference to develop the specific skills such as:

• Writing
• Analysis
• Oral Advocacy
• Case Management
• Leadership