Coaching for Lawyers
Coaching for Lawyers was established by Irene Leonard to assist those lawyers looking for a business or career coach to work with them to excel in their professional career. Irene is both a trained business coach and a lawyer.
Lawyers use a lawyer coach for many reasons:
- Lawyers leaving their firm to start their own solo law practice find working with a lawyer coach especially rewarding. Practice goals are achieved sooner and with greater ease than going alone.
- Lawyers at all stages of their practice who need to overcome limitations blocking them from effectively marketing and promoting themselves.
- Law partners use coaching to develop leadership skills within their firms and in the many organizations in which they are involved.
- Associates use coaching to accelerate their drive on the partnership track.
- Many senior-level attorneys who have been practicing for years use coaching to develop strategies for dealing with change in the market place, sharpen their management skills and refresh their enthusiasm for their practice.
The best lawyers do it to get even better.
Improve Practice Management by Working with a Lawyer Coach
A significant number of attorneys, solo and otherwise, use working with a lawyer coach to attract better clients, get more organized, improve their services, and make more money. How? By improving the management of their practice in a number of areas:
- Time Management skills
- Marketing for Lawyers
- Networking and self-promotion
- Client development and communication
- Organizational, management, and leadership skills
- Getting Paid
- Writing a Business Plan (PDF)
- Strategies for generating more billable hours
- Learning to work smarter not harder
Procrastination & Time Management
An area of major concern for attorneys is overcoming procrastination. Like many accomplished people, they sometimes get "stuck" and aren't sure how to move forward. Oftentimes there are simple and effective solutions for overcoming procrastination, and lawyers use working with a lawyer coach to implement them in their practices to make work more profitable and enjoyable.
Lawyers also work with a coach to assist them in managing their time better, which results in billing more hours as well as improving their billable hour realization rate.
Learning the essential skill of delegation is another common area for lawyers to improve their practice.
Re-examine Values for Greater Practice Satisfaction
Many lawyers reach a crossroads in their careers where they must reexamine their values and priorities so they can make a choice about where they want to go. For these attorneys, working with a lawyer coach can be a most effective way of breaking through an impasse and finding renewed vigor, greater satisfaction or even a new direction in their work.
Professional Development for Law Firms
Many law firms hire a lawyer coach to assist in the training and development of their professional staff:
- Communication, delegation and organization skills
- Team building
- Personal marketing skills
- Improving client relations
- Implementing strategic goals
- Increasing billable hours
- Developing managerial or leadership qualities
- Becoming a partner
- Dealing with difficult people
- Helping with succession plans
One of the best ways lawyers can achieve their professional goals is to work with a lawyer coach who will maintain the focus on their goals and what's important. Coaching for Lawyers is designed with that in mind. Keeping the focus for the client so that the day to day challenges a lawyer faces will not veer them off course.
Whether a lawyer wants to improve his or her reputation, generate more profits, or simply feel better about their work, they will see extraordinary results with the help of a lawyer coach.