Developing Junior Lawyers

Coaching pre/newly qualified, lawyers in an entrepreneurial mindset

The Client

A London law firm sought Praeduco’s services the help with developing Junior Lawyers, through coaching & workshops.

The firm sought a collegiate and high performance culture, whilst navigating their innovative business model and an evolving work-place environment.

Their’s is a different kind of law firm, offering a central services model at the behest of lawyers & consultants to draw from. This allows partners to quickly up and down scale as required, and expedite legal administrative tasks without retaining their own junior staff. These distributed models have become more common place within the legal sector, and the balance of flexibility and support extends to the staff that support the partners.

Listening & Learning

We began with a series of online workshops and listening sessions. Our founder, Elle Whitelegg, met with the Juniors to hear their point of view away from senior management.

Creating a safe environment was crucial to ongoing success. This gave an arena to air frustrations, ideas for improvement, as well as their perspectives on where senior management were and weren’t living up to promises and/or expectations.

At this foundation stage, we established trust and created an impartial sounding board.

Development workshop

We then met, face to face as a group. Praeduco presented back to the juniors the largely negative, mistrusting and pessimistic words they had shared on the 1:1 calls.

Hearing and seeing their words played back to them allowed these early career lawyers to consider whether this was a point of view that was helpful to their future success.

With calmness and patience we looked at their perceived reality and compared it to the expectations laid out by the firm upon their recruitment.

Approaching this work with honesty and trust. The workshop created a foundation from which we could begin to build.

A junior lawyer is at the behest of partners until they can create clients of their own, so their success is predicated on their ability to win and retain consistent work from partners, and eventually clients of their own.

The Praeduco Group workshop offered the perspective of “becoming CEO of your own career” – building networks, being a sales person of your services. Taking charge of your career through building confidence, self-belief and a clear sales strategy.

The work empowered the juniors to take charge of their future and we paved the way for increased productivity and buy-in.

Preaduco further developed this workshop into a series of 1:1 Coaching Sessions with each of the Junior Lawyers.

Together we achieved:

• An increase in performance – measured by hours logged & billed
• A greater level of collaboration – measured by participation in a shared inbox
• A higher level of engagement with their development – evidenced by PDP plans, engagement with seeking new business and learning opportunities within the firm

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