Workplace success at every stage of your lawyers’ career
Practical skills and workplace skills are a critical part of career development. There’s only so far your lawyers can advance—and be their most productive—without them. Our workplace success and practical skills coaching is designed to help lawyers of all stages—whether they are middle-level attorneys with a track record with the firm, new laterals getting off to a good start, or summer associates and law clerks still transition from the classroom to law practice—be successful contributors and productive team members in any legal environment. For best results, we combine big-picture understanding with specifics for improving on-the-job and workplace performance.
Practical Skills for Workplace Success
“Using the new strategies to accurately record my time, I’ve increased my billables by 25-30 hours this month—without working any harder.”
As always, we take an accountability approach to working with lawyers. This means that, in addition to our work together, our clients will have work to do on their own. They must also be committed to the understanding that:
They must choose to be their greatest asset
Success is the result of habits, behaviors, and attitudes that can be learned
Short, mid, and long-term strategies are best pursued simultaneously
“This has been so insightful and educational. I appreciate it. I wish people taught this in school or even just along the way. But no one ever tells you all this stuff.”
Workplace success and practice skill coaching offerings include both one-on-one coaching and group training to help your lawyers become proactive, client-first professionals. Common topics include:
“I understand concepts like networking, but I never knew how to actually go out and do it in real life—especially my real life.”
Creating a business plan
Building 30-60-90 day success plans to get off on the right foot
Transitioning to law firm or in-house environments from clerkships, law school, the public sector, or other
Appreciating lawyers’ roles as revenue generators in law firms and business facilitators in corporate environments, including developing a customer service mentality
Understanding and exceeding workplace expectations, as well as seeking and incorporating constructive feedback
Receiving assignments from supervising attorneys, internal and external clients, and others—including handling philosophies and demands of multiple supervisors
Managing time, including accurately capturing, tracking, and submitting billable time to increase firm collections and profitability
Determining when “good enough is good enough” is okay and when perfection is necessary
Communicating with team leaders, team members, and internal and external clients
Improving oral communication, advocacy, presentation, and legal, business, and general writing skills
Coping with high-paced and inherently stressful environments
“Shauna, you are a gem.”
How We Help Up-Skill Lawyers
“I have stage fright. It’s true. And I don’t know what to do about it. Your coaching made me better—I wasn’t as nervous. And I was told that I came across as more confident. And these are all really great ideas to continue to improve.”
At Bryce Legal, we can help your attorneys thrive as leaders and members of your teams, whether they are middle-level attorneys with a track record with the firm, new laterals getting off to a good start, or summer associates and law clerks still transition from the classroom to law practice.
Since 2006, we’ve worked with lawyers on developing both the “hard” and “soft” skills necessary to thrive in law practice—whether in law firms, corporate legal departments, government, or non-profits. We’ll partner with firm leadership (including, as needed, managing partner, general counsel, and practice group leaders) and talent management (including, as needed, CHROs, Chief Talent Officers or Chief Legal Talent Officers, legal hiring directors, attorney professional development directors, and HR teams) to design tailored offerings to meet the needs and realities of even the world’s most prestigious law firms and corporate legal departments.
Our arrangements include:
Individual coaching (hourly, by package, or on retainer)
Group coaching (custom pricing according to your needs)
Group training (custom pricing according to your needs)