I chat with Lawyers Weekly about the traditional career path for lawyers and how individuals can decide whether partnership is right for them. Also delving into law firm culture, work/life balance and the way personal values can shape a successful career.
Empathy: a key to a successful legal career
It’s a cliché, but it is also true: change is the new constant. We live in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world where everything can become overwhelming very quickly.
Most of us are searching for certainty at some level, and this offers the modern lawyer with the opportunity to provide certainty – in the form of trust.
How to decide if you want to become a law partner
It seems like there is ready advice to determine how to become a law partner, each firm will have their model of what you have to achieve to be considered, and most partners can tell you what they had to do to get there. What can be a little trickier is deciding if you really want to become a partner.