In this live online session you’ll hear from Dr Nigel Spencer and Mike Mister, authors of Managing Your Leadership Career in Law, (2024), - a practical ‘How-To’ guide for partners in private practice law firms.
Focusing on coaching partners through the transitions in their partnership career, this book guides partners through what they need to know, the skills to build and the actions required to be successful at each stage of their leadership journey.
Additionally, Mike and Nigel offer guidance for those leading the leaders – the practice group leaders, managing and senior partners who help partners in their firms thrive during this significant period in their careers.
In this online session, Mike and Nigel share advice and valuable insights from their book, and answer your questions during a Q&A session.
Topics covered:
What you should do upon promotion to partner, practice group lead, or office leader role
How to optimise your role as a senior partner – and then effectively transition out of your role and, potentially, out of the firm
How you can best develop your partnership career
The perennial leadership challenges all partners face
BOOK DETAILS
‘Managing Your Leadership Career in Law’ is published by Edward Elgar Publishing. (UK). It will also be available to order through the Law Institute of Victoria’s Legal Bookshop.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This session is designed for Partners, Learning & Development and Organisational Development Professionals working in private Legal practices, but the following groups should be able to really take advantage of it:
Senior Partners, Managing Partners or CEO’s with responsibilities for mentoring or developing Partners
Recently appointed Partners
Professionals responsible for the Learning Pathways and Career Development of lawyers.
REGISTRATION IS FREE OF CHARGE
This session is hosted by The Law Institute of Victoria in collaboration with Prodonovich Advisory.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Mike Mister, Hon Professor, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London; Partner – Professional Services Firms International, PFSI
Mike works with professional services firms on designing, developing and supporting change agendas and building improved leadership capabilities in partners. His areas of expertise include helping organisations understand the importance of partners as leaders in building sustainable practices, the leadership and motivation of diverse, high performing teams and leadership across the partner life cycle.
Mike also co-authored the best-selling, How to Lead Smart People, From Work Life to New Life: Rewriting the Rules of Retirement for Smart Professionals.
Mike spent the last 22 years of his corporate career with Ernst & Young in the UK– initially as Head of Management Development and then an HR Director before moving into the Global Headquarters as Global Director of Executive Development.
Nigel Spencer, Director, Hub for Professional Practice, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
Nigel Spencer is Professor of Education Innovation and Professional Practice at Queen Mary University of London. He has been working closely with the Law School since 2014 and, with Christina Perry and Valsamis Mitsilegas, co-created the School’s innovative Law in Practice programme with global law firm Reed Smith LLP.
Nigel is also Director for Queen Mary's Hub for Professional Practice, which aims to impact the future of practice through research-informed life-long education, and works closely with the School’s Legal Advice Centre, and sits on its Advisory Board.
Following an early academic career leading international, inter-disciplinary research projects exploring cultural change, identity and group dynamics, Nigel worked in Professional Services Firms for 20 years, initially in a client-facing role at PricewaterhouseCoopers. For 13 years, he then held senior talent development roles at two international law firms.
(Chair) Kellie Hamilton, General Manager Member Knowledge & Learning, Law Institute of Victoria