Steve Armstrong has led professional development and talent-management programs at major law firms for more than 20 years. During that time, he has guided firms to think strategically about managing their talent, has taught programs on managerial and leadership skills, and has designed and implemented a wide range of programs and policies. These have included training curricula, mentoring programs, evaluation and compensation systems, leadership development programs, diversity initiatives, work-life balance programs, associate surveys, and “upward” evaluations. He has published and spoken widely on the topic of talent management, and has served as chair of the Professional Development Consortium, the professional organization for in-house legal educators, and as co-chair of the ABA Committee on Business Law Education. 

Most recently, he has been Director of Career Development for WilmerHale. Previously, he was the Director of Professional Development at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and at Shearman & Sterling. 

For more than 20 years, he has also taught writing programs for lawyers in the U.S. and Canada and for federal and state judges. He conducts the opinion-writing segments of the Federal Judicial Center’s orientations for new district, bankruptcy, and magistrate judges, as well as programs for state supreme court and appellate judges. His program for lawyers have been conducted under the sponsorship of ALI-ABA, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and other major CLE organizations, and he has also taught in-house programs for law firms, in-house legal departments, and such government agencies as the SEC and FTC.

With Professor Timothy P. Terrell, he is the co-author of Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Effective Writing and Editing (3rd edition, 2008, Practicing Law Institute). 

Contact:
armstrong@armstrongtalent.com
202.580.9291