Leadership Skills for Legal Professionals

Ignoring the continuous development of your leadership skills is risky business. You may have a busy practice at a firm that is focused on business development, maximizing profits, and serving clients in the best possible way. In order to accomplish these objectives, you’ll need to excel in the ‘hard skills, such as: robust legal analysis, persuasive legal argument, and effective legal writing, to name a few. Yet without strong leadership skills, these ‘hard skills’ will not come to full fruition. You’ll also need skills for creating and maintaining a positive working culture, collaborating on small and large teams, navigating client and firm interests, and portraying strong personal leadership in client meetings, courtrooms, and other legal settings. In this presentation, you’ll gain insights and tips in areas such as: 

• Three things every leader can and should do without
• Self-reflective assessment regarding your leadership skills
• Ways you can improve six important hard ‘soft’ leadership skills
• How to balance confidence and perseverance with humility and flexibility