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The Associate's Guide to Getting Along

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
January 09, 2007

LJN Web Audio Conference Division



Panelists

Barbara B. Miller
Barbara B. Miller Communications


Martin L. Camp
Assistant Dean for Students Affairs
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law




Moderator

Elizabeth Lampert
Director
Law Journal Newsletters
Web Audio Conference Division

The Associate's Guide to Getting Along

Web Audio Conference
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
12:00PM – 2:00PM EST

An associate lawyer's job is to make anyone he or she works with look good. But the law firm environment can be confusing territory, requiring awareness and insight into the most effective ways to observe, contribute and align with legal activities that serve the daily internal/external client needs. Attorney development no longer includes the traditional mentor/apprentice relationships so valued in the early years of legal advocacy. On the road to being effective, visible and valued permanent members of a legal team, getting along with people matters. Navigational tools with all staff, both legal and support, will ease interactions and move your career forward.

As clocks tick faster and faster, the brightest and the best that the law schools can graduate just have to figure out how to actually practice law. Sophisticated legal clients are demanding, the competition is fierce and the productivity tools seem to encourage the pace and intensity of getting work done. But high IQs, Law Review positions and prestigious law school degrees make little difference when staff and colleagues refuse to work with you. Long days and brilliant legal analysis won't matter if you can't make conversation when joining partners and prospective clients for lunch. And subject matter depth on substantive legal issues may make for an important article on recent Supreme Court decisions, but fail to get you to equity partnership.

This Law Journal Newsletter Web Audio Conference will give you the knowledge to survive and strive in the world of today's Law Firm. Learn how to achieve and utilize the necessary skills that will make your years of hard work worth it.

Topics include:

  • Developing, nurturing and maintaining relationships.
  • Communicating in THEIR language.
  • Predictors of success.
  • Importance of feedback.
  • One chance to make a first impression.
  • Participating in conversations comfortably.
  • The likability factor.
  • Giving bad news.
  • The Lateral's opportunity.

LJN Web Audio Conference Division

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