Developmental Order: How to Quickly Build Professional Development Resources in Law Practice
Law firms generally don’t have any sort of organized collection of internal professional development resources. That can come up as a problem, in a whole host of ways. For one thing, it reduces the quality of your staff, who sort of have to figure everything out themselves. For another thing, it decreases your efficiency, because everyone is just waiting around, to ask their supervisors about what to do next, when they can’t figure it out . Finally, it means that your staff may be looking for jobs that are more supportive of their professional growth. But, even for those managing partners who believe that providing professional development resources would be a viable way to avoid that string of disasters, the question is how they would do it. It seems like it would be hard, and might take a lot of work; however, there are a bunch of levers that could be pulled, with respect to generating professional development materials, to...