The Tennessee Bar Journal uses Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to share lessons on mentoring.
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This report details the findings from a very comprehensive survey of mentoring efforts throughout the legal profession. The report includes information from law firms, law schools and bar organizations throughout the United States and Canada on such topics as formal and informal mentoring program structures, budgets and management. Also included in this one of a kind report are perspectives from practicing lawyers in both the public and private sectors and law students from across the United States.
The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Professionalism has put forth this 20-chapter volume by leading authorities on changes in the profession and the legal services marketplace. It offers expert guidance on rapid change in the legal services landscape and what legal organizations and individual lawyers must do to adapt and preserve our profession.
This very readable how-to manual helps young lawyers seeking mentors, seasoned lawyers who want to provide m
Maximizing Relationships To Become A Successful Lawyer: Innovative Mentoring For Lawyers And Law Students By Matthew Cristiano, Amy TimmerThis very readable how-to manual meets the needs of young lawyers seeking mentors, seasoned lawyers who want to provide meaningful mentoring without significant time commitments, and bar associations and law schools searching for an inexpensive way to help make meaningful mentoring happen.
Focusing on “professionalism mentoring,” the book:
- Offers a fresh, innovative approach to legal mentoring that involves having many mentors and brief mentoring sessions
- Provides a variety of ways to find mentors and capture their best advice in short order
- Gives readers techniques for maintaining mentoring relationships
Features
- Benefits law students and young lawyers by helping them grow their network of experienced lawyers who will guide and advise them
- Can be read from cover to cover or used regularly for quick reference
- Offers approaches to mentoring that are non-resource intensive
- Provides seasoned lawyers ways to offer meaningful mentoring without significant time commitments
- Provides the questions young lawyers and law students should ask to begin a mentoring relationship
- Utilizes professional identity development and professionalism as a basis for starting the mentoring relationship and improving the profession.
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