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Turning Lawyers into Law Firm Leaders: How to Build a Culture of Leadership
Course Description:
In today's highly competitive environment, a firm's financial success depends greatly on the planning and organizational skills of its lawyer management.
Senior-level partners who are part of the management team have developed different skill sets from other lawyers. And they didn't get them overnight. They nurtured their leadership abilities, under the wings of predecessors and through relationships with successful peers and business advisors.
Legal practices need strong direction. Unfortunately highly competent attorneys do not necessarily make good managing partners or lawyer managers. In fact, some of the best lawyers are the worst managers. As a result, there’s a tremendous need to cultivate future firm leaders.
In this information-packed audio conference, our expert faculty will discuss the key elements needed to help your firm build a culture of leadership that develops stronger leaders, promotes talent more efficiently, and improves firm function and performance.
Course Highlights:
- Top firm strategies to effectively train and develop future firm leaders
- Key techniques to identify management vs. leadership skills in your associates
- How current strategic and operational challenges affect leadership roles
- How individual lawyers and firms can overcome structural and cultural obstacles to leadership
- How anyone, at any level can be a leader
- How firms can create a culture of leadership
- How firms can best communicate a compelling and challenging vision that inspires leadership
- What firms and lawyers can learn about leadership from outside the legal business world
- Why “self-identification” is important for lawyers who strive to lead
Featured Faculty:
Gerry Riskin, Founder, Edge International
Gerry Riskin is a Founder of global consultancy Edge International. He is an internationally recognized lawyer, author and management consultant. A graduate of commerce as well as law, he practiced since 1973 and was Managing Partner of a firm in Canada and Hong Kong. Gerry has been coaching managing partners and practice, industry and client team leaders on Alternate Fee and Project Management for over a decade. He serves on the advisory board of a leading AFA and Legal Project Management-based law firm. Gerry is author of The Successful Lawyer Text and Audio Program (ABA best sellers). For The Institute for Best Practices, Gerry co-authored two works for those in firms with management responsibilities: Herding Cats and beyond KNOWING, both of which became management best sellers. He is co-creator of the acclaimed video productions Practice Coach® and Rainmaking®., has served on the Conference Board of Canada and is a Fellow of The College of Law in London and a visiting Professor at the University or Pretoria in South Africa.
Sara Kraeski, Director of Business Development, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP
Sara Kraeski is the Director of Business Development for Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, a Rocky Mountain regional law firm located in Denver, Colorado. Ms. Kraeski is responsible for the firm's business development and marketing efforts, including strategic planning, client satisfaction programs, market research, practice group planning, client and industry teams, and individual business development coaching. Ms. Kraeski is a frequent speaker on topics relating to business development strategies for lawyers.
Ms. Kraeski joined Davis Graham & Stubbs in 1992 and was a partner in the firm prior to assuming her current position. As a practicing lawyer, she specialized in corporate transactions, representing clients in public and private securities offerings, merger and acquisition transactions and corporate financings. She also counseled clients on general corporate governance issues, regulatory matters and securities law compliance issues. Ms. Kraeski received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.
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Pricing:
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CCM Preferred Customer
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$365.00 |
CLE:
CCM provides audio conference attendees with CLE credit processing services. To expedite CCM processing your CLE request, please complete and submit the evaluation form available from CCM at the conclusion of the audio conference. It will be necessary to enter the following information: name of each attorney requesting CLEs with full contact information, including e-mail address, bar number, and the state in which the attorney wants credits. Each attorney requesting credits must submit an evaluation.
Please be advised CCM audio conferences are subject to approval from each CLE issuing organization and approval is not guaranteed (state bar associations in Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania do not grant CLE credits for audio conferences). The approval process takes approximately 6 - 8 weeks for most organizations but can take as long as 3 - 4 months. You will be notified via e-mail with the final status of your CLE application.
Any person applying for CLE credits must attend the audio conference from start to finish (attendance will be taken for compliance reasons). Requests for CLE credits must be received no later than two weeks following the conclusion of the audio conference or live conference. CLE credits are not available for CD recordings.
If you have any questions regarding CLE credits, contact Jill Adler at 631.368.2082 x 21 or jill.adler@meeting-matters.com.
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