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Articles and Presentations
Articles
- "Teaching Writing So It Sticks" (PDF)
Professional Development Quarterly, May 2010
- "It's Time for Some Attention to Partners" (PDF)
Law Firm Partnership & Benefits Report, June 2010
- "Developing Partners: An End to Sink-or-Swim" (PDF)
in The Art and Science of Strategic Talent Management in Law Firms,
general editor Terri Mottershead (Thomson Reuters/West 2010; available for order in Fall 2010)
- "Building Leadership Development Programs in Law Firms" (PDF)
Professional Development Quarterly, May 2009
- "An Interview About Professional Development Trends" (PDF)
(An interview about professional development trends)
Kerma Partners Quarterly 2009, Issue 1
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“Why Is It So Hard to Front-Load?” (PDF) (with Professor Timothy Terrell)
in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, v. 17, no. 4 (Fall 2009)
The lists below do not include programs for law firms and in-house legal departments.
Upcoming Presentations
- DeMystifying Project Management
PLI Audio Webcast, August 18, 2010, 1 to 2 p.m. EDT
View the webcast
- Developing Partners
Thomson Reuters/West webinar, September 14, 2010, 11 a.m. EDT
- Re-shaping the Legal Framework: Integrating Strategic Management, Leadership Development and Practice Management
Executive Directors’ Roundtable, October 27, 2010
Recent Presentations
Leadership and Managerial Skills
- Project Management: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Bring It to Your Firm (with Tim Leishman, Firm Leader; Doug Richardson and Pam Woldow, Altman Weil)
- Leadership From the Start: How to Integrate Leadership Skills Into Your Associate Programs
Professional Development Institute, December 2009
Talent Management
- Managing Associates: Towards Performance-Based Approaches
Lex Mundi Managing Partners Conference, June 2010
- Turning Today’s Partners Into Tomorrow’s Stars
Managing Partners’ Roundtable, May 2010
- Partner Development
International Bar Association Conference, October 2009
- Lawyer Development Institute: Developing Superior Law Firm Leaders (PDF) (ALI-ABA and NALP), June 2009
- Transforming Partners into Leaders: The Path of Development
- Leadership Programs for Practice Group Leaders”
- Managing Legal Talent: Best Practices in Lawyer Career Development
(ALI-ABA and NALP)
With Marcia Shannon (Shannon and Manch) and Kris Butler (Holland & Knight)
View the webcast
- In the Wake of a Merger - The Successful Integration of Intellectual Capital
3rd Annual Conference for Chief Recruitment and Professional Development Officers (American Lawyer Media)
- Is it Time for a Different Law Firm Business Model?
3rd National Forum on Professional Development: Emerging Strategies in the War for Talent (Hildebrandt Institute)
- Making the Business and Human Case for Career Development
Lawyer Development Institute 2008: Pathways to Success – Building and Supporting a Lawyer Career Development Program (ALI-ABA and NALP)
- Non-Equity Partners and Other Permanent ‘Non-Associate’ Attorneys
4th Annual Forum on Professional Development: Managing the Talent Pipeline – New Models for Success (Hildebrandt Institute)
- Training and Developing All the Generations in a Mobile Workforce
Law Firm Human Capital Forum (American Lawyer Media)
- Young Lawyer Development in a Challenging Economy
Virginia Bar Association Annual Meeting
With Tammy Patterson (NALP Foundation)
Legal Writing
- Thinking Like a Writer About Opinions
Federal Judicial Center Orientation for New Bankruptcy Judges, June 2010
- Style and Context: Mastering the Skill of Judgment Writing
National Judicial Institute and Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, May 2010
- Writing Persuasive Briefs
National Institute of Trial Advocacy, February 2010
- The Art of Efficient Editing
ABA Appellate Judges Conference, November 2009
- Written Advocacy
The Advocates’ Society and Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, November 2009
- Opinions: Effective Writing, Efficient Editing
Federal Judicial Center Orientation for Circuit and District Judges, June 2009
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