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Managing Your Leadership Career in Law: A Partner’s Guide


ISBN13: 9781035316540
Published: September 2024
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £103.00
Paperback edition , ISBN13 9781035369102



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In this practical and insightful book, Dr Nigel Spencer and Mike Mister provide expert guidance to both aspiring and established law firm leaders, to help them to successfully navigate the specific leadership challenges partners face in private practice environments. Offering a unique practitioner perspective, they cover what partners need to know, do, and what skills they need to develop, at each step of their leadership journey.

Key features:

  • Engaging and accessible writing style
  • Guidance on how partners can effectively manage career transition points
  • A series of best-practice case study ‘stories’ on how law firm partners can best lead in different situations
  • Practical tips for law firm leaders based on the authors’ own experience as coaches and consultants specialising in law firm leadership development

Managing Your Leadership Career in Law is an indispensable guide for partners in private practice law firms across the globe. Senior and Managing Partners seeking to maximise the effectiveness of their leadership cohort will also benefit from the guidance offered, as well as academics and students learning about private practice law firm leadership, and management in the legal sector more generally.

Subjects:
Legal Practice Management
Contents:
Contents
Preface

PART I. SETTING THE SCENE
1. What is leadership in law?
2. The leadership career life cycle of partners in private practice law firms

PART II. THE PARTNER CAREER LIFE-CYCLE
3. Phase 1: getting established
4. Phase 2: consolidating one’s reputation
5. Phase 3: maximising your ‘career peak’ years
6. Phase 4: leaving a legacy

PART III. PERENNIAL LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES
Introduction to Part III
7. Inclusive leadership: the winning formula
8. Leading people older than you
9. Providing ‘air cover’ for your team
10. Avoiding micro-management
11. Building feedback-rich cultures
12. Spotting and developing talent
13. Hiring new team members
14. Managing the ‘star performers’
15. Tackling the law firm ‘r&d challenge’
16. Rectifying client service failures
17. Leading change
18. Handling resignations
19. Changing track: moving on yourself

PART IV. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
20. You the leader

Series: Elgar Guides to Professional Skills for Lawyers

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£65.00
Managing Your Leadership Career in Law: A Partner’s Guide ISBN 9781035369102
Published June 2025
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£32.95
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Technology and Security for Lawyers and Other Professionals:The Basics and Beyond ISBN 9781803923901
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Professional Judgment for Lawyers ISBN 9781035314829
Published July 2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
£71.95
Effective Communication for Lawyers: A Practical Guide ISBN 9781035320318
Published June 2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
£26.45
Effective Communication for Lawyers: A Practical Guide ISBN 9781839106903
Published September 2022
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
£80.00
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution for Lawyers ISBN 9781803920764
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£69.95