The Lawyer's Guide to Mentoring, 2nd Edition

The Lawyer's Guide to Mentoring is directed to every lawyer interested in being a mentor or having a mentor -- and to every law office wishing to make mentoring available in the workplace. For individual lawyers, mentoring relationships offer keys to professional success. For law firms, mentoring programs are an investment in the future. This book offers both audiences practical tools for establishing successful mentoring relationships in today's legal workplace.

The Lawyer's Guide to Mentoring was sponsored by the New York Women's Bar Association Foundation, Inc., and published by the National Association for Law Placement, Inc. Author Ida O. Abbott, Esq. speaks to lawyers from an inside track based on her distinguished 20-year career as a lawyer and her work with law firms and legal organizations around the country. Before starting her consulting firm, she specialized in complex litigation and was in charge of lawyer training at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco. She chairs the Bar Association of San Francisco Law Practice Management Section and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Law Firm Governance, for which she writes a column on professional development.