Managing Your Leadership Career in Law

A Partner’s Guide

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Nigel Spencer, Mike Mister

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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 styleGuidance on how partners can effectively manage career transition pointsA series of best-practice case study ‘stories’ on how law firm partners can best lead in different situationsPractical 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-13
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieElgar Guides to Professional Skills for Lawyers
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035369102

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Nigel Spencer, Executive Coach, Director of the Hub for Professional Practice and Professor of Practice and Education Innovation, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Former Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK and Mike Mister, Partner, Professional Services Firms International (PSFI) LLP, Senior Fellow, Human Capital; The Conference Board; and Honorary Professor, Hub for Professional Practice, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK

ContentsPreface PART I SETTING THE SCENE1 What is leadership in law?2 The leadership career life cycle of partners in privatepractice law firmsPART II THE PARTNER CAREER LIFE-CYCLE3 Phase 1: getting established4 Phase 2: consolidating one’s reputation5 Phase 3: maximising your ‘career peak’ years6 Phase 4: leaving a legacyPART III PERENNIAL LEADERSHIP CHALLENGESIntroduction to Part III7 Inclusive leadership: the winning formula8 Leading people older than you9 Providing ‘air cover’ for your team10 Avoiding micro-management11 Building feedback-rich cultures12 Spotting and developing talent13 Hiring new team members14 Managing the ‘star performers’15 Tackling the law firm ‘r&d challenge’16 Rectifying client service failures17 Leading change18 Handling resignations19 Changing track: moving on yourselfPART IV CONCLUDING THOUGHTS20 You the leader